RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES

Trump’s loyalists shelved an FBI sting complete with tape and a bag of cash — calling it a misunderstanding, nothing more.

WASHINGTON — In the annals of political chicanery, where the absurd often masquerades as the ordinary, the tale of Tom Homan and his Cava bag stuffed with $50,000 in cash stands out as a particularly garish chapter.

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Homan, Donald Trump’s self-styled “border czar,” a man whose rhetoric on immigration is as unyielding as a West Texas wind, was allegedly caught in a sting operation last September 2024, clutching a paper sack from a fast-casual Mediterranean chain, the kind of place where you’d expect to find a pita wrap, not a payoff.

This is not merely a scandal; it is a tableau of our degraded civic moment, a snapshot of an administration that treats public office as a bazaar for personal enrichment.

The details, as scooped by MSNBC, are as tawdry as they are damning. Undercover FBI agents, posing as businessmen with deep pockets and deeper ambitions, allegedly handed Homan the cash in Texas, where he is said to have discussed funneling government contracts their way once Trump’s second term cemented his authority.

The exchange, we’re told, was captured on tape—audio, perhaps video, a digital record of a transaction that reeks of the kind of influence-peddling that would make a Gilded Age robber baron nod in approval.

Yet, in a move that surprises no one who has tracked this administration’s allergy to accountability, the Justice Department, now under the stewardship of Trump loyalists Kash Patel and Pam Bondi, has quashed the investigation.

“No credible evidence,” they proclaim, as if a bag of cash and a recorded conversation were mere ephemera, a misunderstanding as trivial as a misordered falafel.

Homan, a former acting head of ICE and a vocal architect of Stephen Miller’s mass deportation fantasies, is no stranger to the border-industrial complex. He’s been linked to firms like Fisher Industries, which secured a $225 million border wall contract in Texas during Trump’s first term.

The math isn’t hard: a man with a history of steering contracts to allies, caught allegedly promising more of the same for a quick $50,000. It’s the kind of transaction that would feel at home in a Scorsese film, not a functioning democracy.