How To Succeed in Corruption Without Really Trying

Tom Homan, Trump's "Border Czar," met last summer with undercover FBI agents posing as business contractors. He was then running a private firm, Homeland Strategic Consulting, whose pitch was that it could "open doors" for border security companies seeking to secure government contracts.

Though deeply concerned about waves of illegal aliens washing across the southern border in the steamy season of 2024, Tom was even more concerned with profiting big time from America's swarthy-tide crisis. Now, being a deep-thinking man as well —

— Tom soon enough realized that he could make his profits much bigger if, before securing government contracts for clients, or rather to secure government contracts for clients, he first secured bribes.

And that's what Tom was up to when he met last summer with contractor-posing, undercover FBI agents. Reports MSNBC (or whatever it's calling itself these days), which reviewed the spirited entrepreneurial Mr. Homan's resulting DOJ and FBI case documents, he thereupon accepted $50,000 in cash from the federal agents, a transaction recorded by concealed cameras.

It seems the law frowns on that sort of thing — or it did once, when top officials abided by the rule of law. Says Randall Eliason, the former public corruption prosecutions chief in D.C.'s U.S. Attorney’s Office, "If someone who is not yet a public official, but expects to be, takes bribes in exchange for agreeing to take official acts after they are appointed, they can’t be charged with bribery. But they can be charged with conspiracy to commit bribery" — i.e., "to commit a criminal act in the future."

Nonetheless, top officials in the Biden administration's devilish "lawfaring" Justice Department chose to wait; they wanted to see if Homan, by then destined to become Trump's border czar, would carry through with his pledge to help the FBI poseurs in acquiring a government contract.

The best-laid plans, as they say, for the DOJ. Once Trump retook office and defenestrated the rule of law, "the case indefinitely stalled," writes MSNBC. Then, to absolutely no one's surprise but conscientious prosecutors' immense aggravation, Trump's lawless "appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case."

Patel's status updating consists of these steps: 1) Is the suspected criminal still close to Trump; and 2) did he or she once work as a Fox News contributor; and 3) did said suspected criminal ever toil at the Heritage Foundation; and 4) are bonus points due the afore-cited target if, while at the foundation, he or she contributed to Project 2025?

In Tom Homan's case, the update rendered Check, Check, Check, and Check — a spectacular inner circle quadfecta, hence criminal case begone, and yet, while spectacular indeed, its stench not all that uncommon in the Trump regime's halls of gangbanging injustice.

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This piece is cross-posted in Substack.