Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith and the media after a suspicious white powder found at the White House over the weekend was confirmed as being cocaine.
“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 on his social media platform Truth Social, as quoted by The Hill.
“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,” Trump added.
Trump also asked whether Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland last fall to oversee the DOJ’s investigations into the former president, has “been seen in the area of the cocaine” and said the special counsel “looks like a crackhead to me.”
The comments come a day after the Secret Service said that a suspicious white powder found in an area of the White House during a routine sweep on Sunday prompted a brief “precautionary closure” and evacuation of the building, the Secret Service said. The powder was determined to be nonhazardous and sent for further testing, which confirmed the material was cocaine.
The Secret Service said on Wednesday it is still investigating the “cause and manner of how it entered the White House.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday did not speculate on who may have left the drug, but she noted it was found in a “heavily traveled” area accessible to visitors.
Biden was not in the White House at the time of the incident.