‘Release the Tapes’: Lawmakers Demand Answers Over Alleged $50,000 Bribe of Trump Border Czar Tom Homan – “Seriously though, has anyone ever been handed $50,000 cash in a paper bag for something legit?”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tom-homan-50000-cash
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I’d be more surprised if someone in Trump’s orbit didn’t accept a paper bag filled with $50k.
Potato chip bag is the preferred transfer method
The House and the Senate can flip in 2026, and the third time’s the charm?
Ugh, this guy made me sick from the get go, total racist.
Look, we all know this is what is happening under Trump’s administration. Between the crypto bribes, the documentaries/movies, the “donations” for the ballroom and Trump’s other ventures, the money for pardons…at this point they are just lazy with envelopes full of cash because they know that Republicans in Congress are too scared to do anything about it.
For all their anger against the swamp and the government that they feel has overlooked them, it amazes me that the supporters of Trump don’t realize that they were scammed. I guess the truth would be too painful to accept.
You know if it had been me or you getting $50k in cash we’d be in the slammer.
Rules for thee and all
A criminal in the Whitehouse?
Shocking.
Amateur. You’re supposed to launch your own meme coin that anyone in the world can buy anonymously, including foreign governments, and go big on your graft.
Like isn’t this guy already richer than God? Why would he need another $50k? Force of habit, I suppose.
Taking the money proved to trump he was the right man for the job.
Homan pocketing $50k cash from FBI undercover ops, then Trump’s DOJ buries it? Straight-up mafia shit. Release the tapes, Blumenthal, time to impeach these grifters!
If he was caught trying to take this bribe, imagine all the bribes he’s taken.
They’re all grifters and criminals, from the top down. Either that, or they order new Gulfstreams, fly around the world, eat high dollar meals, have a whiskey and cigar bar in their office ( Kash Patel) and do piss poor work if any.
>In a joint statement issued Saturday, Patel and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said the investigation “was subjected to a full review by F.B.I. agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found **no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing**.”
Kash is apparently pretty good at finding “no credible evidence” in any case against the current administration.
The investigation started in summer of 2024.
The FBI was investigating something else, got this tip, and set up a meeting where 2 agents posed as business executives. They’ve got recorded evidence of Homan accepting $50k in a Cava bag. (I’ve never heard of Cava, I guess it’s a restaurant / quick food place?)
>It’s unclear what reasons FBI and Justice Department officials gave for shutting down the investigation. But a Trump Justice Department appointee called the case **a “deep state” probe** in early 2025 and no further investigative steps were taken, the sources say.
He’s kissing the right asses. He’ll get a pass.
Spiro Agnew would like a word.
I don’t think that Patel knows what “credible evidence” means.
He uses it like it means “we don’t care, let’s stop talking about this.”
It’s not that I’m surprised per se, but $50k seems like so little for such an enormous ethical violation/crime. (Not sure if “crime” anymore, actually, since SCOTUS made bribery expressly legal and all.) I don’t think I’m some morally superior, righteous person, but I wouldn’t take the reputational risk for $50k, even if for purely selfish and practical rather than ideological reasons. If I’m going to sell out my country, it’s going to cost at least enough to cover my expenses and protect my family for the rest of my and their natural lives, since it would end my career (possibly even my life) upon discovery and possibly follow them for life, too.
I want to know where that $50,000 is now.
I’m sure he returned the money, he did return the money, right? /s
The only way this gets Homan in trouble is if Trump finds out he didn’t get his cut.
The actual reason given by the justice department for why this isn’t a crime is that he wasn’t officially part of the government when he took the bribe. Taking a literal sack of cash in exchange for telling business you’ll get them contracts in the new Trump administration is fine, as long as you do it in the transition period. Absolutely nothing to worry about here.
Perhaps we are just taking the bribe out of context…
it was just a slight bribe, not an opinion against anyone
Am I the only one here thinking only $50k? I mean, that’s not nothing for most people but that’s peanuts for someone in a well off position. What stupid cheapskate does that?
He does resemble Hermann Goering, another kleptocrat
That’s only the bribe we know about. How many more are there? By whom?
Does even break the top ten most corrupt things about this “felonistration”
There is a minute missing from the tapes that show him take the bribe. Allegedly..
So the same administration that is protecting child molesters and paedophiles, you think they’ll release tapes of someone taking bribes?
Y’all are so fucked in the US. This should be way bigger than it is.
Classic rookie move. You’re only allowed to accept bribes as a gratuity, not beforehand.
Stop calling this asshole the fucking ‘border czar’ like it’s a title that fucking means something.
This Trump is blatantly corrupt. Trump brags that he could kill someone and his people will support him. It’s believable because he’s felon whose been accused of some the heinous crimes against children and he’s people are ok with it. They entire world has seen the evidence.
This is only the tip of many icebergs. This administration and Whitehouse is rotten from top to bottom.
Bribes are legal now, leave it alone. According to SCOTUS, the only thing wrong with this picture is that Homan settled to too little.
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