Over
the
weekend,
it
came
out
that
Tom
Homan,
one
of
the
senior
architects
of
the
Trump
administration’s
immigration
policy,
allegedly
took
$50K
from
undercover
FBI
agents
posing
as
business
executives
hoping
to
bribe
their
way
into
government
contracts
if
Trump
won.
He’s
said
to
have
accepted
the
funds
—
which
the
FBI
reportedly
captured
on
video
—
in
a
Cava
bag.
If
the
fast
food
chain
doesn’t
immediately
capitalize
on
this
with
some
sort
of
marketing
campaign,
then
I’ve
lost
all
faith
in
them.
Homan,
interestingly
enough,
put
himself
front-and-center
of
the
move
to
drop
the
Eric
Adams
bribery
case.
Homan
never
came
across
as
the
proper
spokesperson
for
the
administration’s
decision,
highlighted
when
he
seemed
to
confirm
a
quid
pro
quo
for
dropping
the
Adams
case,
but
in
retrospect,
he
might
have
had
a
vested
interest
in
putting
out
the
message
that
bribery
isn’t
anything
to
be
ashamed
of.
Lots
of
people
are
talking
about
this
story
and
its
implications
for
the
rule
of
law,
with
some
comparing
the
overarching
investigation
as
a
modern-day
Teapot
Dome
scandal,
but
Above
the
Law
has
a
more
quotidian
query:
seriously,
what
happened
to
the
money?
If
the
FBI
gave
away
$50,000
and
then
dropped
the
case…
what
happened
to
it?
Where
is
this
taxpayer
money?
I
get
that
the
administration
declared
this
a
“deep
state”
probe
—
the
exact
words
of
a
Trump
Justice
Department
appointee
according
to
NBC
sources
—
and
decided
to
punt
the
investigation,
but…
is
the
money
still
out
there?
Did
they
tell
Tom
that
he
was
wrongfully
investigated,
but
can
we
please
get
back
our
honeypot?
They
couldn’t
really
be
allowing
him
to
keep
it…
right?
Why
is
everyone
focused
on
whether
or
not
this
was
really
a
crime
and
not
on
the
money?
You
should
not
listen
to
Kurt
and
Megyn
generally,
but
you
should
definitely
not
listen
to
people
who
don’t
seem
to
have
the
vaguest
sense
of
how
the
Justice
Department
functions.
First
of
all,
the
FBI
was
involved
in
a
broader,
ongoing
investigation
and
doesn’t
make
it
a
habit
of
charging
people
at
the
drop
of
a
hat
until
they’re
sure
they’ve
uncovered
the
full
scope
of
the
enterprise.
But
more
to
the
point,
the
DOJ
was
never
going
to
charge
a
senior
individual
in
Trump’s
orbit
in
September
of
2024,
because
no
matter
how
good
of
a
case
they
think
they
have,
the
DOJ
generally
doesn’t
take
actions
that
might
impact
an
election
mere
weeks
away.
This
is
the
complaint
that
liberals
have
with
James
Comey
reopening
the
Hillary
email
debacle
on
the
cusp
of
the
2016
election.
Which
isn’t
necessarily
fair
to
Comey,
who
painted
himself
into
a
corner
when
he
made
the
well-intentioned,
if
ill-advised,
decision
over
that
summer
to
testify
under
oath
that
the
FBI
had
reviewed
every
single
email
and
found
no
criminality.
At
that
point
he
kind
of
had
to
inform
Congress
when
new
emails
emerged,
and
even
though
he
signaled
that
those
emails
were
likely
irrelevant
—
which
was
ultimately
true
—
the
damage
was
done.
Possibly
chastened
by
that
experience,
the
DOJ
was
absolutely,
positively
not
going
to
make
a
public
accusation
that
the
Trump
campaign
was
involved
in
a
massive
bribery
scheme
in
September
of
an
election
year.
White
House
Deputy
Press
Secretary
Abigail
Jackson
slammed
the
probe
as
a
“blatantly
political
investigation,
which
found
no
evidence
of
illegal
activity,
is
yet
another
example
of
how
the
Biden
Department
of
Justice
was
using
it’s
resources
to
target
President
Trump’s
allies
rather
than
investigate
real
criminals
and
the
millions
of
illegal
aliens
who
flooded
our
country.”“Tom
Homan
has
not
been
involved
with
any
contract
award
decisions.
He
is
a
career
law
enforcement
officer
and
lifelong
public
servant
who
is
doing
a
phenomenal
job
on
behalf
of
President
Trump
and
the
country,”
she
added
on
behalf
of
Homan,
a
senior
White
House
employee.
OK,
but
that’s
not
denying
that
there
was
an
investigation
—
indeed,
it
confirms
that
there
was
one
—
and
it’s
certainly
not
a
denial
that
the
investigation
included
money
handed
to
Homan.
Maybe
they
meant
to
deny
that
he
ever
took
$50K
in
a
Cava
bag,
but
that’s
not
what
these
answers
are
saying.
So
even
if
we
accept
these
White
House
responses
at
face
value
and
decide
that
this
was
a
bad
case,
we’re
still
left
out
here
wondering…
where
the
hell
is
that
money?
Did
he
report
it
on
his
taxes?
Now
that
this
is
public,
can
someone
in
the
IRS
check?
Alas,
this
is
an
administration
that
lost
hundreds
of
kids
the
first
time
around,
and
then
claimed
they
misplaced
several
guys
in
El
Salvador.
Maybe
we
should
just
accept
that
they’re
never
going
to
find
that
money.
Kathryn
