Homan outright denies taking $50,000 bribe ‘from anybody’

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Homan outright denies taking $50,000 bribe ‘from anybody’

White House border czar Tom Homan denied allegations that he accepted a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents in exchange for contract promises, saying on Wednesday that he never accepted that sum of money from “anybody.”

During NewsNation’s “Cuomo” town hall, Homan issued his firmest denial yet of the allegations when asked if he wants to “clarify anything” about his alleged involvement in the FBI corruption investigation.

“I didn’t take $50,000 from anybody,” Homan said.

Asked how the allegations got “into the mainstream,” Homan said he has “no idea” but said he’s been the target of dozens of “hit pieces” in recent months about his alleged involvement with government contracts.

“I recused myself from any discussions of any contract or any monetary decisions like that, because I used to have a company that did consulting, so I cleared myself day one,” he said. “What people don’t talk about is I took a significant, huge pay cut to come back and serve my nation, and I’m not enriching myself doing this job.”

But Homan said he isn’t angry about the public criticism or allegations.

“I don’t care what people think about me. I never have,” he said. “Because I know who I am. I work for the greatest president in the history of this nation, and we’re doing the right thing every day.”

MSNBC reported last month that Homan had been under investigation by the Biden-era Department of Justice (DOJ) after accepting $50,000 in cash from FBI agents posing as businessmen last year. In return, according to the report, Homan had promised to provide government contracts to the men in President Trump’s second term.

Top DOJ officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, suggested in a statement to MSNBC that the investigation into Homan was untrustworthy because it was launched when former President Biden was in office. A subsequent examination by the agency under Trump, they added, found “no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing,” and the probe was dropped.

Following the initial bombshell MSNBC report, Homan insisted that he “did nothing criminal” but stopped short of denying accepting the cash payment.

“Look, I did nothing criminal. I did nothing illegal,” Homan said. “It’s hit piece after hit piece after hit piece and I’m glad the FBI and DOJ came out and said, you know, said that nothing illegal happened, no criminal activity.”

Homan also previously called the allegations “bulls—” in an interview with NewsNation’s Libbey Dean.

Vice President Vance fiercely defended Homan in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week” on Sunday, saying Homan “did not take a bribe,” while sidestepping questions about whether the border czar accepted and kept the $50,000 payment.