MSNBC’s Tom Homan ‘Scandal’ Has All The Earmarks Of A Hoax: There is No Evidence that Tom Homan Agreed to Anything Improper, No Evidence that He Acted on Behalf of Anyone, and No Evidence that He Violated Any Law; Leavitt Defends Homan Amid $50K Bribe Allegation: FBI Tried to ‘entrap’ Trump Ally

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MSNBC’s Tom Homan ‘Scandal’ Has All The Earmarks Of A Hoax:

There is no evidence that Tom Homan agreed to anything improper, no evidence that he acted on behalf of anyone, and no evidence that he violated any law.

After nearly a decade of hoaxes — from Russiagate to Ukraine, from impeachment sagas to the circus around Brett Kavanaugh — the American public has been conditioned to expect another “bombshell” headline every few months. Now, right on schedule, a new one has emerged. This time, the target is Tom Homan, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and now the border security czar in the Trump administration.

MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig reported on Saturday that Homan had supposedly been ensnared in a sting operation run by the Biden-era Department of Justice and FBI in 2024. According to their story, undercover FBI agents posed as business executives seeking help in obtaining border security contracts. MSNBC claimed Homan accepted “$50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration.”

Those are MSNBC’s exact words: “indicated he could help.” Not “said,” not “confirmed,” not “promised,” not “agreed.” Just “indicated.” That slipperiness alone should set off alarm bells. In legal and journalistic terms, it means nothing. At its most generous, it could be seen as a subjective impression. More realistically, it appears to be a deliberate attempt to insinuate wrongdoing without citing any evidence.

Tellingly, MSNBC’s story contains no direct quotes from Homan at all. When it references the alleged recording of his interactions with undercover agents, it only says that “hidden cameras [were] recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas.” There is no transcript, no quotations, and no evidence of what Homan actually said. If Homan had said anything remotely incriminating, MSNBC would right now be airing it on a loop.

Perhaps the most glaring problem with the story is that if Tom Homan really had done anything wrong, why didn’t the Biden DOJ bring charges? This wasn’t Trump’s Justice Department in 2024. It was Merrick Garland’s DOJ and Christopher Wray’s FBI. If they had any evidence that Homan took a bribe or engaged in corruption, they would have prosecuted him instantly and with fanfare, especially given his reputation as one of the toughest immigration enforcers in the country.

Instead, the file was carried over into the Trump administration, where, according to a statement issued by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, it was “subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors” before being closed. That should have been the end of it. Yet someone has now leaked this non-story to MSNBC to create yet another hoax. --->READ MORE HERE

Leavitt defends Homan amid $50K bribe allegation: FBI tried to ‘entrap’ Trump ally:

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has accused the Biden administration‘s FBI of attempting to “entrap” White House border czar Tom Homan following a report that the government official accepted a bribe of $50,000 from undercover federal agents.

“This was another example of the weaponization of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President Trump’s strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign,” Leavitt told reporters during a briefing at the White House Monday afternoon.

“You had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president’s top allies and supporters, someone who they knew very well would be taking a government position months later,” Leavitt said.

Over the weekend, MSNBC reported that the FBI had recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash following an agreement to help undercover FBI agents posing as business executives lock down a large government contract.

Homan, the former acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was reported as having traveled to Texas to receive the cash, which was recorded on camera. Leavitt denied that Homan received the money and said on Monday that “Mr. Homan never took the $50,000” and therefore would not have to give the money back.

The FBI had not referred the case to the U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution because it was waiting to see if Homan would dole out the promised contract to the fake business. --->READ MORE HERE

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