BREAKING: TOM HOMAN CAUGHT IN BRIBERY SCHEME
Border czar caught taking $50,000 cash from undercover FBI agents. Trump’s DOJ buried the case. The White House promoted him. Deportations roll on.
WASHINGTON — Somewhere in Texas last fall, Tom Homan — the man who brags he’ll deport more people than anyone in history — sat across from two guys in suits and took a bag of money. Fifty thousand in cash. That’s not rumor. That’s not Twitter gossip. That’s the FBI, with cameras rolling, catching Trump’s future border czar pocketing greenbacks like a man who knew his ship had come in.
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And then, like every two-bit story of power in this town, the whole thing went away. The Justice Department shut the case. The Trump people called it “deep state.” The file got shoved in a drawer, right next to all the other things nobody in Washington wants to touch.
Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian broke it open at MSNBC: agents thought they had him. They had the tape, the cash, the promises to steer contracts once he had the president’s ear again. Prosecutors circled words like “conspiracy” and “fraud.” But by January 2025, Homan was back inside the West Wing, and by February the case was dead.
This is the same Homan who strutted around campaign rallies talking about mass deportations like they were parades. Same guy who smiled for Fox cameras while families were ripped apart at the border the first time. The lawman from upstate New York who went from Border Patrol grunt to the White House with a consulting firm on the side — the kind that “opens doors” for border contractors, for a fee.
The fee last fall was fifty grand.
Now he’s Trump’s border czar. The man with the deportation pen. The guy who promised at a right-wing convention: “We’re going to have the biggest deportation operation this country has ever seen.”
In the old days, a bag of money on tape would’ve ended a career. In the new days, it gets you a West Wing badge.
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Thank you, Pablo. Perfect tone. These goons are shameless.
Great article.