President Donald Trump spoke of the infamous incident about the cocaine bag left in the White House in 2023, saying the person behind it could easily be identified based on fingerprint evidence, but the traces have been wiped clean.
On Thursday afternoon, during an interview at the White House, The Spectator‘s Ben Domenech asked the president, “So… who actually left the cocaine in the White House?” Trump was quick to answer, “Well, either Joe or Hunter. Could be Joe, too.”
The cocaine bag in question was discovered by the secret services in a storage locker near the entrance to the White House’s West Wing back in July 2, 2023.
The investigation didn’t find any suspects.
“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 of the discovery. “And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right?”
According to the president, that particular locker where the drug was found was cleaned with “the strongest form of alcohol.”
“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,” he added.
At the time of the incident, the Secret Service revealed the bag of cocaine was “subjected to advanced fingerprint and DNA analysis.” However, the lab results “did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons.”
Many are confused by Trump’s accusations of the Bidens because at the time the cocaine bag was discovered, they were not staying at the White House but at presidential retreat Camp David in Maryland.
“The Biden family was not here,” former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a July 2023 press conference. “They were not here Friday. They were not here Saturday or Sunday.” She added: They were not even here Monday. They came back on Tuesday. So, to ask that question is actually incredibly irresponsible, and I’ll just leave it there.”
Initially, it was believed that the bag of white powder was anthrax, but it was soon determined it was drugs.
