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WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – The discovery of cocaine at the White House earlier this week prompted reactions from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump, who are currently considered the two front-runners for the Republican Party’s candidacy for president in 2024.
On Sunday, authorities found a white powdery substance inside the West Wing, and preliminary tests revealed that it was cocaine. On Wednesday, the Secret Service declared that the drug was cocaine following additional testing.
When questioned about the controversy during an interview with Tomi Lahren on “Outkick,” DeSantis stated, “I’ve long believed, I think a lot of us have believed that the Biden administration has been blowing it on a lot of fronts. But I guess it’s a little bit more literal than even I had thought. I could tell you in Florida, my wife and I, we have a six, five, and a three-year-old running around the governor’s mansion. So that’s not something that we see.”
In a social media post in response to the news, Trump implied that either President Joe Biden, Biden’s son Hunter Biden, or special counsel Jack Smith—who is in charge of two federal criminal investigations into Trump, one of which has already resulted in the filing of numerous felony charges—was to blame.
“Does anybody really believe that the COCAINE found in the West Wing of the White House, very close to the Oval Office, is for the use of anyone other than Hunter & Joe Biden,” Trump said. “But watch, the Fake News Media will soon start saying that the amount found was ‘very small,’ & it wasn’t really COCAINE, but rather common ground up Aspirin, & the story will vanish.”
The cocaine discovered in the West Wing over the Fourth of July weekend was discovered there when the Bidens were out of town, according to the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who spoke about the matter on Wednesday.
According to Jean-Pierre, the drug was discovered in a “heavily-traveled area” in the West Wing. Tours of the West Wing were given on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, she continued. Jean-Pierre did not clarify whether the cocaine belonged to a guest or a staffer, stating that the findings are still being investigated by the Secret Service.
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