{"id":133778,"date":"2025-05-26T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/133778\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:20:12","slug":"fbi-reopens-probe-into-cocaine-found-at-bidens-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/133778\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI reopens probe into cocaine found at Biden’s White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

By NICK ALLEN<\/a> and CHARLIE SPIERING, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER, WASHINGTON, DC<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 10:51 EDT, 26 May 2025 | Updated: 12:34 EDT, 26 May 2025 <\/p>\n

The FBI<\/a> is launching a new probe into the discovery of cocaine at Joe Biden<\/a>‘s White House<\/a>\u00a0in 2023, according to FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cocaine investigation was part of a list posted by Bongino on X in which he said the FBI had decided to ‘re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention’ to the cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The discovery of a small bag of cocaine in a cubby near the entrance to the West Wing two years ago led to numerous theories about who it belonged to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cocaine was discovered at the White House two days after recovering drug addict Hunter Biden<\/a> left with his father and members of the family for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

A Secret Service investigation into the drugs was closed in less than two weeks due to a ‘lack of evidence’ as security footage was not able to determine the owner.<\/p>\n

‘Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered,’ it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Biden family was away from Washington at the time of the discovery of the cocaine took place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White House repeatedly condemned accusations suggesting that the cocaine belonged to a Biden family member.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Cocaine in a cubby at the White House<\/p>\n

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FBI Deputy Director\u00a0Dan Bongino on the decision to investigate cocaine found at the White House\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘To ask that question is actually incredibly irresponsible,’ White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on July 7th without denying the allegations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump repeatedly raised questions about the case, vowing new attention to the investigation.<\/p>\n

‘Well, either Joe or Hunter. Could be Joe, too,’ he said when asked<\/a>\u00a0in February who he thought left cocaine in the locker.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear what additional details a renewed investigation could reveal, as Trump previously revealed that evidence surrounding the incident had been removed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump speculated that the lockers had ‘hundreds and even thousands’ of fingerprints but that it had been wiped clean with ‘the strongest form of alcohol.’<\/p>\n

‘When they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry,’ he said. ‘You know that, right?’<\/p>\n

‘I think I\u2019m going to look into that because it was\u2026 bad stuff happened there,’ he said.<\/p>\n

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US President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden step out of a bookstore while shopping in Nantucket, Massachusetts,<\/p>\n

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Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, attends a Hanukkah holiday reception in the East Room of the White House<\/p>\n

Bongino has previously indicated 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.’<\/p>\n

‘A whistleblower just blew the lid off the cocaine gate scandal,’ Bongino said in a video in August 2024. ‘I’m ready to expose what I know and it’s explosive.’<\/p>\n

Bongino also listed the investigation of an individual placing pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters as deserving additional scrutiny and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case to Politico prior to the court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022.<\/p>\n

‘I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI,’ he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The publication of the Supreme Court’s opinion ending the constitutional right to abortion in Politico on May 2, 2022, provoked condemnation from Trump.<\/p>\n

He called the source of the leak ‘slime’ and demanded that the journalists involved be imprisoned until they revealed who it was.<\/p>\n

Previous investigations into both cases, by the Secret Service and the Supreme Court, respectively, ended without identifying who was responsible for the cocaine or the leak, or the pipe bombs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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