The White House on Monday forcefully rejected weekend media reports that Border Czar Tom Homan accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI operatives, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt telling reporters that Homan “did absolutely nothing wrong” and that President Trump stands by him 100 percent. Conservative Americans should not be surprised that the administration pushed back — Homan is a proven lawman who has spent decades defending our borders, not lining his pockets.
Left-leaning outlets seized on an undercover sting story that MSNBC first reported, but the White House described the episode as yet another example of federal law enforcement being weaponized against Trump allies. Leavitt accused the FBI of an entrapment-style operation and demanded that the press get its facts straight before smearing a public servant who has sacrificed for this country.
Officials familiar with the matter say the Justice Department ultimately closed the inquiry after finding no credible evidence of criminal conduct, a fact the White House highlighted as proof the story lacks substance. If the DOJ, FBI and prosecutors who reviewed the case found nothing that warranted charges, Americans should demand accountability from the outlets that ran the sensationalized headlines.
Predictably, Democratic lawmakers rushed to demand more probes and leaked calls for records, turning an unproven allegation into a partisan circus. This is typical Washington theater: when they can’t win on the issues, they try to neuter the people actually delivering results on the border with headlines and subpoenas.
Tom Homan himself has fiercely denied any criminality and explained on national television that he did nothing illegal — the kind of plainspoken defense Americans respect from a man who once ran tough federal enforcement operations. The real story here is not Homan, it’s the media’s appetite for scandal and the Biden-era institutions that too often let politics override common sense.
Patriots should recognize this for what it is: an attempt to distract from the administration’s successes securing the border and to intimidate capable public servants into silence. The president and his team are right to stand by a decorated enforcer who put country over comfort, and conservatives must push back against the smear machine until the record — not partisan spin — is the final word.
