I would love to hear the tape. Wouldn't you?

[Robert W]

How so?

Would it be legal for the FBI to try to bribe you?

 

[Marener]

Would it be legal for the FBI to try to bribe you?

Yes.

 

[sparky]

How so?

lawfare

~S~

 

[marvin martian]

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.​

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, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.

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. 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.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

www.msnbc.com

The rationale the trump government has used to tuck the investigation in to a drawer is it was "politically motivated." a Trump Justice Department appointee called the case a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

But Homan was not the original target in the probe.

The federal investigation was launched in western Texas in the summer of 2024 after a subject in a separate investigation claimed Homan was soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the presidential election, according to an internal Justice Department summary of the probe reviewed by MSNBC and people familiar with the case.

I can't put my finger on why, but Homan accepting a bag of cash fits him like a glove. Something about him gives off a mob boss sensibility.

Anyway, during the 2024 campaign Homan made no secret of the power he would have if trump was re-elected. Homan, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement early in Trump’s first term, openly claimed during the 2024 campaign that he would play a prominent role in carrying out Trump’s promised mass deportations. Making the acceptance of bribes all the more believable.

This incident, and the subsequent coverup, rounds out the portfolio of corruption in trump 2.0.

So, have you heard that tape yet?

 

[OODA_Loop]

So, have you heard that tape yet?

FBI: "Hi Tom Homan us businessmen have a bag of $50k that I am placing on the table in front of you"....rustling heard.

Homan: "I am taking said bag of $50k you just placed on the table in front of me into my hands. I am standing up and walking away with the bag".

 

[Robert W]

Yes.

You are fine with entrapment?


Defined broadly, entrapment occurs when law enforcement agents induce a person to commit a crime they would not have otherwise committed. The principle safeguards against overreach by the state, ensuring that the justice system punishes criminal intent rather than creating it.

 

[Marener]

You are fine with entrapment?


Defined broadly, entrapment occurs when law enforcement agents induce a person to commit a crime they would not have otherwise committed. The principle safeguards against overreach by the state, ensuring that the justice system punishes criminal intent rather than creating it.

It’s not entrapment if the target is perfectly willing to take the bribe.

 

[OODA_Loop]

You are fine with entrapment?

Against Marener's political enemies ? Absolutely.

 

[marvin martian]

If a guy says to a company, give me $50k and if I get into government next year I’ll send contracts your way. If I don’t get into government, I’ll give you the $50k back.

Is that corrupt?

So, have you heard that tape yet?

 

[Marener]

So, have you heard that tape yet?

Trump is hiding it to protect his buddies. Par for the course.

 

[Marener]

lawfare

~S~

Going after people soliciting bribes doesn’t seem like lawfare to me.

 

[Robert W]

Trump is hiding it to protect his buddies. Par for the course.

Meaning it is fiction. Designed to overthrow the current government.

 

[Robert W]

Going after people soliciting bribes doesn’t seem like lawfare to me.

It is called entrapment. Pretend this was done to Biden. Say when he threatened Ukraine!!!

 

[Marener]

Meaning it is fiction. Designed to overthrow the current government.

Nixon said much the same thing about his tapes.

 

[Marener]

It is called entrapment. Pretend this was done to Biden. Say when he threatened Ukraine!!!

It’s not entrapment if Homan is willingly taking bribes.

 

[marvin martian]

Trump is hiding it to protect his buddies. Par for the course.

It's ok man, Adam Schiff has a copy. It's in his safe right next to the Trump pee tape he has.

 

[Robert W]

It’s not entrapment if the target is perfectly willing to take the bribe.

First why is it a bribe? Who offered this alleged bribe? When law enforcement offers funds to do a crime, law enforcement entrapped and that is a crime.

 

[Robert W]

It's ok man, Adam Schiff has a copy. It's in his safe right next to the Trump pee tape he has.

Schiff is a blatant criminal.

 

[Marener]

First why is it a bribe? Who offered this alleged bribe? When law enforcement offers funds to do a crime, law enforcement entrapped and that is a crime.

It’s not. If law enforcement offers funds to buy drugs, is that entrapment? They do it all the time in undercover operations.

If Homan takes money in exchange for government favors, it’s a bribe. That’s the definition of a bribe.

 

[Robert W]

It’s not entrapment if Homan is willingly taking bribes.

Millions of Americans could be put in prison if law enforcement gets to entrap.