Less Than Homan

This is going to be short.  But every time I see ruthless Border Czar Tom Homan, caught on video by the FBI taking a bribe, trying to do the very best he can to defend himself, I always want to yell at the TV screen -- as a personal service of kindness to him (and a public service to the reporter) -- that, no, he's not helping matters, but rather he's doing the exact opposite.  And so typing this out and getting it out of my system will help release that gnawing annoyance from building up.

​Two things.

Whenever Tom Homan tries to defend his taking money as not being a bribe because he never used it for the purposes it was given to him, what he misses is (even if what he says is true, which we have no particular reason to believe is the case) that that just means he was a con man scamming his mark of $50,000 for giving the perception he was taking the bribe they were paying for.

And every time Tom Homan says he is oh-so-nobly taking a huge pay cut from his previous job, only getting a paltry 18% of what he made before, hoping to convince anyone listening that this means he couldn't possibly have taken a bribe, he doesn't realize he is actually giving the reason for taking the bribe! To make up for his pay loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p23jsRYBkmc