Trump has a plan to solve the White House's 'cocaine dilemma'
Donald Trump in a social media rant Tuesday suggested that the discovery of cocaine in the West Wing is part of broader “Cocaine dilemma,” and the former president said he has a plan to solve it.
U.S. Secret Service agents found the powder in a small clear plastic bag in a heavily trafficked area on July 2 during a routine White House sweep, The Associated Press reports. The powder was later confirmed to be cocaine.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday said, “The president thinks it’s incredibly important to get to the bottom of this.”
“I have an idea,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website.
‘“Get Deranged Jack Smith to take just a ‘tiny portion of the millions of dollars he is spending illegally ‘targeting’ me, and let him go to the White House with his army of thugs to solve the Cocaine dilemma,” Trump wrote, referring to reports that the special counsel has already spent more than $9 million investigating the former president.
“I’d bet they already know the answer, but just in case, it could be done in 5 minutes. Is it Crooked Joe and his wonderful son, Hunter? Release the findings, release the tapes. We can’t have a crackhead in charge of our Nuclear Arsenal!!!”
This isn’t the first time Trump has tried to make political hay from the incident at the expense of his perceived enemies.
On Wednesday tried to link the discovery of cocaine in the White House to special counsel Jack Smith. The former president said the special counsel prosecuting him on allegations he mishandled classified documents “looks like a crackhead to me.”
The cocaine discovery has become fodder for other conspiracy theorists.
Alex Jones suggested that the discovery of cocaine on the White House grounds was a “call for help” by Secret Service agents who feared they’d be murdered for linking the drugs to Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
"The fact that the Secret Service called a hazmat crew when they've got their own hazmat team and let it go out over the scanners was really a call for help," he opined. "We don't know what this bag of drugs is, undoubtedly, with Hunter's crack pipes and the rest of it."