J.D. Vance responded to George Stephanopoulos on This Week about Trump border czar Tom Homan being investigated for accepting $50,000 in cash in a restaurant takeout bag from undercover agents to help win contracts for businesses during a second Trump administration, and it didn't go down well. The Trump Justice Department closed the bribery investigation in 2025 before any charges were filed.
Vance lashed out with feigned outrage that Stephanopoulos would insinuate criminal wrongdoing, but that was after the Vice President suggested that Democratic Governor JB Pritzker's behavior seemed pretty criminal to him .
How dare anyone suggest that Homan, who walked out with 50 grand in a paper bag, did anything wrong! Let he or she who has not accepted $50,000 from undercover FBI agents, th