Homan, Bribe-Taker

So it turns out nub-head Tom Homan, the Trump regime's border czar and chief ICE-enforcer, took a $50,000 bribe last year from undercover FBI agents. The story was broken by MSNBC, written by two investigative reporters who were at the Washington Post until recently.

The agents were pretending to be businessmen who wanted contracts with the government during the second Trump administration. The money changed hands on September 20, 2024, and the exchange was captured on camera. 

A key point to find in the story is that Homan was actively soliciting bribes in 2024, pending Trump being elected in November. Homan was an active contibutor to Project 2025 as well.

With knowledge bribe had taken place and been recorded, Trump appointed Homan to his current position. And — of course — the investigation into Homan's actions and any possible prosecution have now been dropped by the the FBI and the Department of "Justice."

The federal investigation was launched in western Texas in the summer of 2024 after a subject in a separate investigation claimed Homan was soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the presidential election...

Former acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove — recently confirmed by Republicans in the Senate to a lifetime appointment as a Court of Appeals judge — was instrumental in quashing the Homan case at the DoJ. Of course!

The response on BlueSky so far:

But the powerful black women who make Trump feel small allegedly checked a primary residence box [on their mortgage documents]. GTFOH
Osborne Cox

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation — that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption — you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash.
Pope Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social

The kind that knows he’d fit right in.
Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench.
Radley Balko

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.
Kevin M. Kruse

John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us.
Radley Balko

Today I learned I learned why Homan never came up for a position requiring Senate confirmation
Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social

And this is just one thing that came up today. 

It doesn't touch all the other things from Friday (H1B visas, million dollar+ Trump gold and platinum citizenship cards, the third illegal killing of people in a boat coming from Venezuela, Trump pressuring a U.S. attorney to resign because he wouldn't press charges against N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, and Trump whining that it's illegal for anyone in the media to criticize him. 

I'm sure I've forgotten at least a half dozen other notable calamities!