White House border czar Tom Homan speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Fox News contributor and conservative legal analyst Andy McCarthy urged Congress to investigate Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, in a column for National Review.
MSNBC reported over the weekend that “In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration.”
“The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter,” continued the MSNBC report. “In recent weeks, Trump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case, two of the people said.”
While McCarthy argued “We don’t have enough information yet to form a legal judgment” about the matter, he nevertheless offered his analysis of the known facts, and observed that “What’s reported sounds bad.”
McCarthy was unmoved by the following statement about the case issued by Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche:
This matter originated under the previous administration and was subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing. The Department’s resources must remain focused on real threats to the American people, not baseless investigations. As a result, the investigation has been closed.
“This is carefully worded. The qualification of ‘credible’ suggests that there was evidence of criminal wrongdoing but that the Trump investigators assessed it to be unconvincing,” wrote McCarthy. “The fact that the matter originated under the Biden administration does not make it inherently untrustworthy — it was apparently a field investigation in Texas, not a case put together by political appointees in Washington, D.C.; and note: the Biden DOJ and FBI did not leak this pre- or post-election.”
“Moreover, even if evidence of criminal wrongdoing is lacking, Homan holds an influential post in the government. Plainly, there is more at issue here than whether a criminal case could be made against him,” he added.
“We can’t evaluate the case against Homan until we know what was said in the recording, why he took the money (if he did), and why the transaction was in cash. Homan hasn’t been charged and he’s presumed innocent,” concluded the former federal prosecutor. “But Congress should look into this, including whether it weighed into President Trump’s decision to give Homan an administration job that did not require a Senate confirmation process rather than nominate him for a cabinet post.”
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