President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has changed his story about taking a $50,000 payment from an undercover FBI agent during a sting operation.
Homan has maintained since the report broke last month that he did “nothing illegal,” but when pressed about the incident during a Fox News interview, he previously didn’t deny accepting the cash.
Now, however, he’s claiming otherwise.
“I didn’t take $50,000 from anybody,” Homan told conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly on Wednesday during a NewsNation town hall at the Kennedy Center.
Asked then how the story “got into the mainstream,” Homan said he had “no idea.”
“There’s been hit pieces on me since I came back to this administration,” he said. “In fact, day one, I came back, I recused myself from any discussions of any contract o