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Border czar Tom Homan denies he took $50K from undercover agents

The Trump administration official has consistently denied criminal wrongdoing.

By Jacob Wendler

Border czar Tom Homan rejected reports that he took a $50,000 bribe from federal agents, his most forceful denial yet of his alleged involvement in an FBI corruption investigation.

“I didn’t take $50,000 from anybody,” Homan said in a Wednesday night appearance on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” town hall.

MSNBC first reported last month that the FBI recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash from agents posing as business executives seeking government contracts in an undercover operation before he began his role in the Trump administration. Homan said in a September interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in the wake of the reporting that he did “nothing criminal” but did not initially say whether he accepted the payment or not.

The White House has acknowledged that federal authorities conducted a probe but maintained that there was no “credible evidence” of criminal wrongdoing by Homan, repeatedly dismissing the investigation as politically motivated.

“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,” Homan said Wednesday night. “Day one, 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.”

Homan also described the reporting on the allegations as a “hit piece,” adding that “I don’t care what people think about me and never have.”

In a Sunday interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Vice President JD Vance declined to say whether Homan accepted and kept the $50,000 payment but insisted that the border czar “did not take a bribe.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi also declined to say whether or not Homan accepted the alleged bribe during a confrontational congressional hearing, maintaining that the investigation was resolved before she was confirmed as attorney general.