Did you take a bag with $50,000 in it. No one heard a "no" from Tom Homan.

[Swede]

It doesn’t take a trained ear to hear the deflections. Homan does not deny taking a bag of money. The public deserves answers.

— Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) 2026-01-11T15:51:33.469Z

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Everyone knows people in suits don't take bribes.

They use a pen.

[Ocelot II]

2. In other words, he took a bag of money in an amount other than $50K.

[kacekwl]

3. Yet there he sits

free as a bird and 50000 dollars richer at least.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Holman took the money and is not going to answer this question

Link to tweet

Welker: Did you keep $50,000 or did you return it?

Homan: I did nothing illegal

Welker: Was there $50,000 in the bag?

Homan: This is an attack on my integrity and I'm not addressing it

Welker: Did you return the money?

Homan: I didn’t have any money to return

Welker: Would you be comfortable releasing the recordings?

Homan: I’m not going to get ahead of their investigation

[John Farmer]

5. He may get to keep the $50,000.

Since no criminal charges were brought, Homan was not convicted of bribery or any other crime, and thus was not ordered by a court to return the money as part of any sentencing or restitution. Public corruption experts have noted that while the Justice Department has options for recovering money used in a sting, it is unclear if that will happen in this case, and one headline explicitly stated, "He May Not Have to Return It".