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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is calling on President Biden and White House staffers to take a drug test after a bag of cocaine was found in the executive mansion over the holiday weekend.
“So let me get this straight, the White House is refusing to say if the cocaine perpetrator will be arrested,” Boebert asked in a tweet Thursday.
“Well, I think we should drug test EVERYONE, including Joe Biden, until we find out who smuggled illegal drugs into the White House,” she said.
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On Wednesday, the Secret Service confirmed to Fox News that the substance found in a bag in the west wing of the White House by a member of the Secret Service on Sunday evening was cocaine. The discovery prompted the response of a hazmat team and the fire department, while the Secret Service blocked the streets around the White House.
It was originally reported that the Secret Service had discovered the illicit drug in a West Wing common area, but it has since been confirmed that the cocaine was actually found in a more secure location near an entrance used by several personnel from various government agencies. The place where the drug was found is also near the Situation Room – a meeting room and intelligence management center in the basement of the West Wing.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is calling on President Biden and White House staffers to take a drug test after a bag of cocaine was found in the executive mansion over the holiday weekend. (Anna Moneymaker, Sean Rayford via Getty Images)
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said law enforcement was still investigating questions about the perpetrator.
Allies of the Biden administration were furious at reports after the cocaine was found in the White House.
“It’s all political fodder right now, political bullshit,” an anonymous source close to the White House said said Hill. The insider mocked that the story was predictably used by the right after former President Trump claimed the illegal drug belonged to President Biden and his son Hunter.
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“I think it’s comical. Of course you’re going to do what you have to do. Any time the opposition has a way of leaning in and putting out some sort of antidote or reaction that gets people excited – they’re going to do that,” the added source to it.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressured this week by reporters about the cocaine found in the West Wing over the weekend. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
While President Biden and his family were at Camp David over the July 4 weekend, White House officials refused to deny Trump’s claims during Thursday’s press frenzy.
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates invoked the Hatch Act to dodge the question. “I don’t have an answer to that because we have to be careful with the Hatch Act,” Bates told a reporter.
The law prohibits federal employees from talking about or using federal resources for campaign purposes.
The Secret Service still had no suspects Thursday in its investigation into who brought the illegal drug into the White House, and it’s not clear if a culprit will ever be found, a source told Fox News Digital.
The source, who is familiar with the Secret Service investigation, told Fox News Digital it will take time to review the evidence and said officials admitted there is a possibility they cannot determine who brought the drugs into the building. .
President Biden and his family were at Camp David the July 4 weekend when the cocaine was discovered in the White House. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The source added that multiple tests were performed on the cocaine container, including DNA and fingerprints.
Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote to the Secret Service on Wednesday demanding more information about the find.
“If the White House complex is not secure, Congress needs to know the details, as well as your plan to correct any security flaws,” he wrote.
Kristine Parks, Andrew Mark Miller and Houston Keene of Fox News contributed to this report.
