The White House has dismissed reports alleging that border czar Tom Homan accepted bribes from undercover FBI agents in an investigation launched against him during the Biden administration last year.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Sept. 22 that Homan never accepted $50,000 in cash from FBI agents who posed as executives seeking government contracts, as alleged.
Leavitt suggested that the investigation launched against Homan under the former administration—which has since been closed—was politically motivated.
“This was another example of the weaponization of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President [Donald] Trump’s strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign,” Leavitt said at a press briefing….