JD Vance outduels the mainstream media yet again
In a recent interview on ABC’s “This Week,” a discussion regarding Trump’s border czar Tom Homan turned ugly when host George Stephanopoulos pulled the plug rather than let Vice President JD Vance continue speaking.
The pair were discussing a bizarre allegation that Homan was caught on tape taking $50,000 from undercover FBI agents “who were trying to entrap him because they were trying to get him on taking a bribe to give certain people government contracts.”
“It’s convoluted; it’s weird,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says, before playing the clip of Vance and Stephanopoulos.
“I don’t know what tape you’re referring to, George. I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe. There’s no evidence of that. And here’s, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program and why you’re losing credibility,” Vance said.
“Because you’re talking for now five minutes with the vice president of the United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I’ve read about, but I don’t even know the video that you’re talking about,” he continued.
“You are focused on a bogus story. You’re insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a guy who has done nothing wrong instead of focusing on the fact that our country is struggling because our government’s shut down,” he added.
Vance went on to ask Stephanopoulos to “talk about the real issues” and explained that it would be much more beneficial for the American people instead of listening to the host go down “some weird left-wing rabbit hole where the facts clearly show that Tom Homan didn’t engage in any criminal wrongdoing.”
“It’s not a weird left-wing rabbit hole. I didn’t insinuate anything,” he said, before shutting down the interview.
“Thank you for your time this morning,” he said, while Vance continued to speak.
“Let me just tell you, as someone who interviews high-profile people on this show from time to time, if it is even so much as a lower-level member of Congress, you do not interrupt them,” Wheeler comments, shocked.
“Do you think George Stephanopoulos would have cut away from Kamala Harris while she was talking and not just speak over the top of her, but take her off the screen and turn it to a commercial break?” she asks, adding, “Can you even imagine?”
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Press secretary Karoline Leavitt shut down allegations that border czar Tom Homan had accepted a cash bribe from FBI agents under the Biden administration.
Reports from legacy media surfaced over the weekend that the FBI last year recorded Homan taking $50,000 from undercover agents who were posing as business executives. In exchange for the cash, Homan allegedly agreed to help them obtain government contracts once he secured a role with the second Trump administration.
'You had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president's top allies and supporters, someone who they knew very well would be taking a government position months later.'
Homan became a target of the Biden administration's FBI after "a subject in a separate investigation" claimed that Homan was "soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the presidential election," MSNBC reported, citing an internal Justice Department summary.
MSNBC accused President Donald Trump of delaying the previous administration's FBI and Justice Department in the case, ultimately leading to its shutdown.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told the news outlet, "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."
White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson called the investigation "blatantly political," noting that it found "no evidence of illegal activity."
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During a White House press briefing on Monday, a reporter asked Leavitt about the probe, including whether Homan would be expected to return the $50,000 he allegedly took from the FBI agents.
"Mr. Homan never took the $50,000 that you're referring to. So you should get your facts straight, number one," Leavitt stated. "Number two, this was another example of the weaponization of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President Trump's strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign."
"You had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president's top allies and supporters, someone who they knew very well would be taking a government position months later," she said.
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Leavitt noted that Patel's FBI also looked into the case.
"They found zero evidence of illegal activity or criminal wrongdoing. And the White House and the president stand by Tom Homan 100% because he did absolutely nothing wrong, and he is a brave public servant who has done a phenomenal job in helping the president shut down the border," Leavitt added.
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