Devlin Barrett
speaker
272 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 9 Jun
Devlin Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
It's not something that the Senate confirms you for.
It's very much sort of a point person for an administration on a particular subject.
But what matters in this instance is that because there's no Senate confirmation, there's not the same kind of background check scrubbing that goes on for a czar position as there is for a cabinet official or a deputy cabinet official.
And that's important in Holman's situation because there is this underlying outstanding case.
It's really unclear.
But we do know, however, that...
During the transition, after Trump is elected but before he is sworn into office, federal law enforcement officials notify and essentially warn the incoming administration that this investigation exists and to Tom Holman.
The short answer is they don't do much of anything with it.
The senior officials of that administration look at the case and they don't like it.
They're very skeptical that this is anything worth pursuing.
And this case that the agents and investigators thought was a very solid case, a very promising start, it just gets closed.
So when we asked the Justice Department to explain, you know, why was this case closed, the FBI director, Kash Patel, and the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, said that, you know, it was reviewed by agents and prosecutors.
And they said those agents and prosecutors found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing.
They basically called it a baseless investigation.
And that's why they say they closed it.
They don't mention the bag of cash, and that becomes a real focal point of all the questions that follow about what the administration did here and why they did it.
One of the first very public comments about all this is the White House press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt.
Denying that he took the money at all.
Tom Homan goes on Fox News, and he's given an opportunity to just respond to the reporting, respond to these allegations.
And his answer is very telling in one way, in that he never denies taking the money.
Showing 201–220 of 272 · page 11 of 14
← Previous
Next →