'She is choosing not to': Fuming reporter hammers Pam Bondi over Tom Homan bribery evasion
An obviously angry Ken Dilanian of MSNBC lashed out at Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday morning over her refusal to answer questions about border czar Tom Homan being filmed taking a $50,000 bribe that was part of an FBI influence peddling investigation.
Dilanian, along with colleague Carol Leonnig, broke the story about Homan in late September, where they reported, an associate of Homan’s “suggested to undercover FBI agents that Homan could facilitate future government contracts in exchange for big money,” which reportedly led to a meeting where he was videoed being handed the cash in a Cava bag.
On Tuesday, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bondi was pressed by multiple Democrats about the video, whether Homan returned the cash and if he should report it as taxable income.
For her part, Bondi either refused to answer the questions, stated they should ask FBI director Kash Patel, or launched a sneering personal attack on whichever Democrat was grilling her.
Wednesday morning, a fuming Dilanian hammered the Donald Trump appointee who has also been accused of being swayed by cash.
Pointing out the attorney general was gifted with an “utter lack of Republican skeptical questions as she thumbs her nose at senators and reads from oppo research and doesn't answer a single question,” he added, “And just because we broke the Homan story here at MSNBC, I'll just say that of all the questions that she didn't answer, that for me was the most frustrating because, you know, she can't credibly say ‘I'm not going to discuss my conversations with the president,’ or ‘I'm not going to discuss a pending criminal investigation' — this is closed.”
“There's nothing, there's no reason she can't talk about the Homan matter,” he accused. “There's no reason she can't say whether he took the $50,000. What happened to it? Did he keep it? Did he pay taxes on it? Why was the investigation closed?”
“She could answer those questions, but she is choosing not to,” he insisted. “And I think the reasons are obvious to all of us.”
“And in fact, when she was asked by Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii in detail about that $50,000 bag allegedly given to Tom Homan, she said, ‘Are you a member of antifa?’ was her comeback,” co-host Willie Geist contributed. “She cited some rally where Senator Hirono had been, so she's not only not answering the question, but just turning to whatever her prepared attack was.”
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