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Vice President JD Vance pushed back when ABC News anchor George
Stephanopoulos tried to make their Sunday morning interview about an FBI surveillance tape that allegedly showed Border Czar Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash.

Vance defended Homan, but then also chastised Stephanopoulos for fixating on
a oridiculous smearo and a obogus storyo rather than using his time to
address the issues that were impacting Americans on a day-to-day basis.

oThe White House border czar Tom Homan was recorded on an FBI surveillance tape in September 2024 accepting $50,000 in cash. Did he keep that money or give it back?o Stephanopoulos began the segment.

oGeorge, youAve covered the story ad nauseum,o Vance pushed back. oTom Homan did not take a bribe. ItAs a ridiculous smear. And the reason you guys are going after Tom Homan so aggressively is because heAs doing the job of enforcing the law. I think itAs really preposterous. I know Tom, I think that heAs a good man. He gets death threats, he gets attacked, he gets constantly threatened by people because he has the audacity to want to enforce the countryAs immigration laws. I think that it would be a much more interesting story about why is it that Tom Homan, who is simply enforcing AmericaAs immigration laws, is getting constantly harassed and threatened to the point of death threats? ThatAs a much more interesting question that I think journalists should focus on. We can agree to disagree on that question.o

Stephanopoulos tried again to push the question with his framing: oWell,
wait, you said he didnAt take a bribe, but IAm not sure you answered the question. Are you saying that he did not accept the $50,000?o

The exchange continued in that vein u and Stephanopoulos tried several other iterations of the same question: oSo you donAt u what was caught on the tape, youAre saying right now you donAt know whether or not he kept that money?o

WATCH:

.@VP nukes George Slopidopolous for obsessing over made-up Fake
`News BS while not asking a single question about the Democrat
Shutdown: oHereAs, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your
programao

George gets big mad, cuts @VP off, and goes to commercial [ROFL]
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u Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 12, 2025

oI donAt know what tape youAre referring to, George. I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe. ThereAs no evidence of that,o Vance argued. oAnd hereAs, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program, and why youAre losing credibility. Because youAre talking for now, five minutes with the
Vice President of United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that IAve read about, but I donAt even know the video that youAre talking about.o

Vance went on to suggest that there were far more important stories that ABC would do well to cover u issues like the government shutdown, driven by Democrats, that were impacting regular Americans from day to day.

oLow-income women canAt get food because the Democrats and Chuck Schumer have shut down the government. Right now, weAre trying to figure out how to pay
our troops because Chuck Schumer has shut down the government. You are
focused on a bogus story. YouAre insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a
guy who has done nothing wrong instead of focusing on the fact that our country is struggling because our government is shut down,o he said. oLetAs talk about the real issues, George. I think the American people would benefit much more from that than from you going down some weird left-wing rabbit
hole, where the facts clearly show that Tom Homan didnAt engage in any criminal wrongdoing.o

oItAs not a weird left-wing rabbit hole,o Stephanopoulos objected before bringing the segment to a close. oI didnAt insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50,000, as was heard on an audiotape recorded by the FBI in September 2024, and you did not answer the question. Thank you for your time this morning.o

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