Trump’s ‘Border Czar’ Pick Has Been Auditioning For The Role On Extremist Media Platforms
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Tom Horman has been a fixture in the fever swamps of far-right media.
The man President-elect Donald Trump would go on to tap as his “border czar” spent the last several years making appearances on some of the most extreme right-wing media outlets in the country — including a program hosted by an Adolf Hitler-admiring QAnon conspiracist — and promising to implement a brutal regime of mass deportations if Trump returns to the White House.
Tom Homan will have that opportunity in January, when Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president.
Homan has been auditioning for a high-profile Trump White House role in parts of the right-wing establishment — notably, as a Fox News commentator and as a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. He was among the authors of Project 2025, Heritage’s authoritarian blueprint for a second Trump administration.
But Homan has also been a fixture in the fever swamps of far-right media, lending the imprimatur of his resumé to white nationalist, anti-Muslim and QAnon figures. These appearances and interviews, some of which have gone unreported in the mainstream press, indicate Homan is prepared to go to extreme lengths to stem the “invasion,” as he puts it, of the country by immigrants.
Homan didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.