White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt grew combative at Monday’s press briefing, brushing off questions about one of President Donald Trump’s aide under federal scrutiny in a case that has already drawn public outrage.
According to multiple outlets, undercover FBI agents posing as business executives reportedly recorded Trump’s border czar Tom Homan last September accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash in exchange for promised immigration-related contracts if he returned to a second Trump administration.
The FBI and Justice Department decided to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on the bribe once Trump took office again, but then the investigation slowed and officials ordered it shut down after the 47th president took office, MSNBC reports.
DOJ officials called the cas