Trump’s ‘border czar’ can thank Supreme Court for alleged $50K bribe
During the weekend, the news announced that the Tsar Frontier of President Donald Trump, Tom Homan, who dearly occupies an invented job that does not require confirmation of the Senate, had was surveyed by The Ministry of Justice and the FBI for having pretended to take $ 50,000 in cash from infiltrated agents posing as entrepreneurs.
Homan will almost never see any consequences to accept this apparent bridge pot, and although he owes the biggest debt to Trump’s Doj, who would have killed the investigationHe should also send to the Supreme Court a note of thanks. He could not have done it without them.
In any other administration, it would be a fire at five alarms. But at Trump’s White House, it’s just corruption at least in a million. The White House refused This Homan took the $ 50,000, with the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, making her “You fools, you, how do you dare!” Act for journalists, sneering: “Mr. Homan has never taken the $ 50,000 to which you refer, so you should get your facts. ”
Of course, except that this is not exactly what Homan himself says.
For any reason – Hubris? stupidity? Do you feel like balls? – Homan does not deny it. He’s just adage That there is no problem, guy.
“Listen, I didn’t do anything criminal. I didn’t do anything illegal,” said Homan. “It is a successful play after a successful play after a successful play and I am happy that the FBI and the Doj were released and said, you know, said that nothing illegal occurred, no criminal activity.”
Homan is technically correct. The DoJ and the FBI fueled by Trump’s corruption apparently killed the investigation, so Homan obviously owes a lot to Trump and his extremely leaving attitude towards corruption.
However, the survey of Homan’s actions would probably not have blocked long enough to wait for Trump’s re -election if it was not for a little song from the 2016 Supreme Court, McDonnell c. US.
In McDonnellA corruption case involving the former governor of Virginie Bob McDonnell, the Supreme Court has considerably reduced, which counts as an “official act” for the purposes of the federal statutes of corruption. Now, an official act must involve a kind of official exercise of government power on something specific that is pending before this official.
So here’s the problem. It is likely that one of the reasons why the investigation into Homan stapped During the Biden administration was that Homan was not yet an official at the time, because Trump had not yet been re -elected. And under the narrow McDonnell Definition of “official acts”, the Doj could have had to sit on his hands and to wait and to see if Homan committed an “official act” of corruption.
Of course, when Trump won the 2024 elections, it has become clear that Homan, with his unique brand of Xenophobia thug, would have a place in the administration – and therefore the opportunity to act on all that $ 50,000 had to pay.
The Doj had continued to monitor Homan even after the Trump elections and envisaged multiple criminal accusations, but then, under the Trump DOJ, the whole has just closed. In a small circle of neat corruption, he looks like Emil Bove help With this effort, and Bove is now untouchable thanks to his life appointment as a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal.
Now shame where shame is due: McDonnell was a unanimous decision, so this part cannot be fully placed at the feet of the conservative judges. On the other hand, the incredible donation of immunity that right lawyers granted Trump East entirely their fault.
Because here is the thing. Without this immunity decision, Trump may not have returned to power. But even if he had succeeded, in the absence of this protective cape, he could probably not be so embraced by his contempt for the law or any consequence. And really, what real damage can it become to anyone on Trump’s orbit now? Trump is immune, he is the president, and he can simply close the surveys or, failing that, forgive everyone.
Thank you, the chief judge John Roberts!
