President Donald Trump has vowed to reopen the investigation into the small bag of cocaine discovered in the White House’s West Wing nearly two years ago, suggesting that it was potentially President Joe Biden or his ne’er-do-well son Hunter Biden who was responsible for the bag.
As background, the investigation that President Trump has said he will reopen was begun in the wake of reports that the small bag of white powder, later found to be cocaine, had been found in the West Wing. However, that investigation ended conclusively, something that made many Americans quite angry, as it looked like a politics-based injustice to not hold anyone accountable.
The situation occurred in July of 2023. It was then, while then-President Joe Biden was away at Camp David, that a small plastic bag containing an at-first unknown white powder was found in a small storage cubby near a West Wing entrance. Its discovery sparked an immediate evacuation, which turned into a United States Secret Service.
The Secret Service’s investigation was, allegedly, thorough, even including advanced fingerprint analysis of the small bag. However, the Secret Service claimed to be unable to identify a suspect, saying that there was a lack of physical evidence. So, 11 days later, they closed the investigation without an arrest.
President Trump, however, has now said that he will reopen an investigation into what happened. Such was revealed on Friday, February 28, in an interview with The Spectator. Broaching the subject, interviewer Ben Domenech asked President Trump, “So… who actually left the cocaine in the White House?”
Trump told him that it could have been either of the Biden males, saying, “Well, either Joe or Hunter. Could be Joe, too.” Trump then noted that there were some suspicious circumstances surrounding the cubby in which the cocaine was found, as it had been wiped clean of fingerprints.
He said, on that note, “OK, so that was such a terrible thing because, you know, those bins are very loaded up with… they’re not clean, and they have hundreds and even thousands of fingerprints. And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right?”
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Domenech backed up what Trump was saying, noting that when he was in the Bush White, the cubbies were “filthy,” not wiped clean. He said, “Well, because, I mean, I was briefly a Bush speechwriter. And so I knew exactly what they were talking about. And I was like, ‘Those things are filthy.’ They’re filthy.”
Trump, continuing, said that there were fingerprints on the cubbies, or at least it appeared that there were. As he put it, “And there were fingerprints. I mean, if you went to one, maybe we’re cleaner, but if you went to one at any time, you would see hundreds.”
Trump also said that it appeared that there was the “strongest form of alcohol,” rubbing alcohol, used to wipe out the cubby where the cocaine was found. He said, “Everybody in there would leave a fingerprint when they went in and that thing was wiped out with, with the strongest form of alcohol.”
That’s when Trump got to saying that he would reopen the investigation into what had happened with the small bag of drugs. He told Domenech, “By the way, and I have to tell you, I think I’m going to look into that because it was… bad stuff happened there.”
Watch Dan Bongino comment on the cocaine baggy situation and investigation into it here:
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