Both Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump — the two leading Republican Party candidates for the 2024 presidential nomination — have responded to the discovery of cocaine in the White House earlier this week.
The cocaine was discovered by White House officials on Sunday in the West Wing. The discovery was particularly controversial because of the notorious drug use of President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
DeSantis responded to the news when asked about it during an interview with Tomi Lahren on “Outkick.”
“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,” he said. “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. We do have to occasionally get slime out of the carpet and get marker off the wallpaper. But that’s the extent of our adventures at the governor’s mansion.”
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Trump responded to the news in a post on social media, in which he suggested that the culprit was either Hunter Biden; or special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing two federal criminal investigations into Trump.
“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 wrote. “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.”
“Has Deranged Jack Smith, the crazy, Trump hating Special Prosecutor, been seen in the area of the COCAINE?” he asked. “He looks like a crackhead to me!”
Trump reacts to cocaine being found at the White House, speculating it could be President Biden’s, Hunter Biden’s, or Special Counsel Jack Smith’s pic.twitter.com/eHjcnviAwb
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