ON SECOND THOUGHT: When it was reported this past weekend that White House border czar Tom Homan had accepted $50,000 in a CAVA bag last year in exchange for promises of future administration contracts—and that it had been caught as part of an FBI sting—the White House’s initial response was: So what?
“The Department’s resources must remain focused on real threats to the American people, not baseless investigations,” FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement Saturday. “As a result, the investigation has been closed.”
With the benefit of a few more days, however, the White House hit on a new line: Actually, the bribe never happened at all.
“Mr. Homan never took the $50,000 that you’re referring to,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday. “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.”
Because this is the Trump administration, where no story stays straight, Homan appeared on Fox News last night, during which he quite notably did not deny that he accepted the $50,000. “I did nothing criminal,” he said. “I did nothing illegal.”
If only there were a way to get to the bottom of this. Perhaps—I dunno, we’re spitballing here—they could release that FBI tape? |
