FBI to reinvestigate 2023 White House cocaine find

[struggle4progress]

Edward Helmore in New York and agency
Mon 26 May 2025 11.51 EDT

... The discovery of a small, zippered bag of cocaine in a cubby near the entrance to the West Wing two years ago drew excited commentary from Republicans, including then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has said it was implausible the drugs could belong to anyone beyond Joe Biden or son Hunter Biden – even though the Biden family was away from Washington at the time.

Bongino has previously alleged, without presenting any evidence, that he was in touch with whistleblowers who told him they were “suspicious” that evidence from the White House cocaine bag “could match a member of the inner Biden circle”.

A formal laboratory test confirmed that the powder found was indeed cocaine and the Secret Service said the substance was found in a “highly trafficked” area of the White House and it was reviewing visitor logs to determine how it had gotten there.

Then White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that public tours of the West Wing had taken place over the weekend when the discovery was made, prompting an evacuation of the executive mansion ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/26/fbi-to-reinvestigate-2023-white-house-cocaine-find-and-leak-of-supreme-court-dobbs-draft

[orangecrush]

1. Nothing coming from the FBI under this administration

Has an ounce of credibility.

[Ritabert]

2. Found where tourists lock up their cellphones before taking a tour

Nothing to do with Biden or Hunter. And Hunter was nowhere near the WH when it was found. Nothing burger.

[hildegaard28]

3. The only

Reason why they want to reinvestigate it is because they want to pin it on one of them, somehow, even though neither would have a reason to go into a tourist area. Definitely not something that should be a priority of the FBI. It's certainly not public corruption, and neither is the Supreme Court leak. They are not serious about public corruption, anyway, as they shut down the FBI's public corruption unit, probably so more Republicans can't be investigated and busted for their ridiculous amount of corruption. Plus, ole Kash Patel is too busy partying to actually do his job.

[Ritabert]

9. True

[lapfog_1]

6. they will "find" a finger print that matches either Hunter ( likely ) or Joe.

and make up some story how it was found when the Bidens were not near the WH

[Ritabert]

10. Of course that's how they operate.

[Takket]

4. "prompting an evacuation of the executive mansion"

why was it evacuated? does cocaine tend to explode unpredictably?

[Xavier Breath]

5. Maybe this is a silly question, but do we even know how old the cocaine in question was?

Is there even a way to test that? If so, did anyone bother to do that at the time it was discovered? And if the answer to any of those questions is a 'no,' then how can they point fingers?

And yes, that last question is rhetorical.

[Midnight Writer]

7. The Trump circle has recognized that it is not the conviction that is necessary.

It is the investigation. Announce someone is under investigation, repeat spurious allegations that are "unearthed" by the investigation, and force the target of the investigation deny and deny, causing many folks to assume that where there is smoke, there is fire and that the target must have done something illegal.

[republianmushroom]

8. Best cover you ass donald jr..