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Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 55 points 1 week ago

This would be SO INCREDIBLY CORRUPT if he was a Democrat!

-Chuck Schumer and the DNC Surprisingly!

[–] killea@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They've investigated themselves, and found themselves to be guilty. So they shut that whole thing down.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well it was legitimate corruption after all.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

God, I’ll never get tired of quoting that bastard

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Waste of government resources uncovering real crimes like this when they should be inspecting the genitalia of their subjects in search of "nihilistic violent extremists".

Such a shame we need to spend federal money looking at every child naked and documenting ut exhaustively to stop terrorism.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not that I'm not surprised. It's more that this is actually expected.

Organized crime in the executive branch, FBI, CIA, etc.

This type of corruption is something that would either be exposed by the Epstein files, or could lead to exposure. The corruption runs deep and long.

Whitney Webb wrote a 2 volume book about it

She's also done a bunch of podcasts and interviews talking about it. Here's one good one.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the link.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The FBI and CIA have been organized crime syndicates for decades now, so it's even less surprising.

[–] dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This dude looks like his farts are constantly wet.

He forgot what a dry fart felt like before we knew whether we'd survive Y2K.

[–] Ruiner13@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

He took the 50K, so I guess he just gets to keep it? Our DOJ is literally funding corruption.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Since laws no longer matter, why the hell are the rest of us self imposing them upon ourselves?

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you here how the DOJ is demanding at least 30 years in jail for someone who planned to try and kill a supreme court judge, but instead turned themselves in... laws don't matter, but any action "they" don't like is suddenly illegal even if there is no law about it. So don't follow the law. Speed if you want. Pirate media if you like. Just don't speak ill of our great leader...

There was an anime about this, and the violence inherent in laws–hierarchy stuff!

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Because the people who would enforce them on us have military hardware.

Or caring when an innocent person breaks one.

Inb4 “It’s the Violent Left!!1”

/s

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Tom Homan is a bitch.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

He looks like the kind of guy that gets really angry when his kids refuse to bring the grand kids over for the holidays.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

crime is legal

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 week ago

This is the least of the problems.