Trump says ‘either Joe or Hunter’ responsible for 2023 cocaine discovery in White House, vows to investigate

US President Donald Trump has vowed to investigate the discovery of a bag of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House in July 2023. In an interview with The Spectator World on Thursday (February 27), Trump suggested the drug was potentially misplaced by either former president Joe Biden or his son Hunter.

“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,” Trump said.

“And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right?” Trump said he was “going to look into that”.

US Secret Service’s role under question

Last month, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote in his book how the US Secret Service would interfere in the congressional probe into the matter, leading him to “abandon the probe”.

“I had to abandon the probe I led into the cocaine found at the Biden White House because the Secret Service destroyed the little plastic bag that contained the cocaine a few days after it was discovered,” he wrote in the book titled “All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes that Made the Biden Family Rich.”

It is to be noted that the cocaine was found on July 2 of 2023 near the Situation Room in a locker for personal items, and it reportedly had a partial DNA match in a national database. However, the Secret Service closed the case within 11 days without questioning anyone, even as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had identified 500 visitors as suspects. This led to speculations over the case’s handling and potential involvement of the Biden family, though the White House dismissed such theories as “irresponsible.”

At the time, then-President Biden and the first lady were at Camp David with Hunter, who had reportedly been staying at the White House the previous month.

Hunter, who had struggled with a crack cocaine addiction for years, got sober in 2019 as his father prepared for a White House run.

(With inputs from agencies)