White House backs ‘border czar’ Tom Homan after reports he accepted cash during an undercover FBI probe last year Politics Sep 22, 2025 5:01 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House stood behind “border czar” Tom Homan on Monday following reports that he had accepted $50,000 from undercover agents posing as businesspeople during an undercover FBI operation last year, leading to a bribery investigation that was shut down by the Trump administration Justice Department.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt characterized Homan’s encounter with the undercover agents as an effort by the Biden administration to “entrap one of the president’s top allies and supporters, someone who they knew very well would be taking a government position.”

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