As Donald Trump rants about discovery of cocaine at the White House, a legal expert notes that Hunter Biden might have made his legal problems much worse

Hunter Biden at the White House

 

Donald Trump has lashed out at President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, over the discovery of a white powdery substance, which now has been confirmed as cocaine, at the White House. In a CNN story yesterday, which appears to be the most recent straight-news reporting on the case out of D.C., authorities did not point at either Biden (or anyone else) as being responsible -- but it appears they are conducting a serious investigation, designed to discover who is connected to the baggie of cocaine and how it got into the White House.

Donald Watkins, a longtime Alabama attorney and criminal-defense expert, is among those who suggest the discovery likely is tied to Hunter Biden. Writing at his Web site under the headline "Hunter Biden Needs a New Stash House for His Cocaine," Watkins states:

Hunter Biden needs a new stash house for his cocaine. On Sunday, White House security personnel found a stash of Hunter Biden's cocaine in the White House Library while he was vacationing with the First Family.

Photos, text messages, and other communications establish that Hunter Biden is a longtime crack-smoking, tax-evading, prostitute-using, gun-toting member of the Biden family whose pending criminal case was “fixed” by federal prosecutors to shield him from imprisonment.

Watkins points to likely the most important issue to arise out of the cocaine discovery so far: Hunter Biden probably has put himself in serous legal jeopardy, and that could cause major headaches for his father's administration and re-election campaign. Writes Watkins:

Federal investigators cannot ask Hunter Biden whether the cocaine that was found Sunday was his because this question would force him to lie about it. If Hunter lies about his ownership and possession of the cocaine, he would be committing two new felonies: (1) obstruction of justice, and (2) making a false statement to a federal law-enforcement official.

What is worse, these new felonies would be occurring while Hunter Biden is awaiting a July 26, 2023, guilty-plea hearing in a Delaware federal court on his other confessed crimes.

The Biden family is hopelessly trapped in a nightmare experience with Hunter Biden, who is a well-known “dope head.” Hunter Biden has created one hot mess for the Biden family and all of the federal law-enforcement officials who are trying so desperately to “fix” his criminal cases.

As for Donald Trump's rant on social media, this is from a report at The Hill:

Former President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at President 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 came back positive for 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 Truth Social.

“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 claimed.

Trump in his Wednesday post also asked whether Smith, who was appointed by 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.”

Ironically, Trump's former press secretary did not agree with her old boss' assessment. Again, from The Hill:

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany threw cold water on the suggestion the cocaine found at The White House over the holiday weekend could have belonged to Hunter Biden, the president’s son.

“For it to be Hunter Biden, he left on Friday, he was at Camp David. There is no way, it is inconceivable to think cocaine could sit for a 72-hour period [at The White House], so I would rule him out at this point.” McEnany, who is a Fox News host, said Thursday on the network’s flagship morning talk program.

From CNN's report yesterday at the White House:

The substance was found near where guests are asked to leave their cell phones before proceeding into the West Wing. Those tours typically only occur on weekends.

Sources had previously described the substance as a white powder found in a small, zipped bag. It was found by Secret Service personnel conducting routine rounds of the building.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday the White House is confident the Secret Service will “get to the bottom” of the incident. She confirmed the cocaine was discovered in a “heavily traveled area” of the West Wing that visitors, as well as staff, pass through.

President Joe Biden was briefed on the situation and “everything we know so far,” Jean-Pierre said, noting the Secret Service was conducting an investigation. “We have confidence that they will get to the bottom of this,” she said.

She said tours of the building recently occurred on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But asked whether it was a working theory that a tour guest was the culprit, she demurred.

“It is where visitors to the West Wing come through,” she said. “I’m not going to speculate on who it was.” 

A federal law-enforcement official told CNN that additional tests being done on the bag include DNA and fingerprint analysis.

The Secret Service, the official said, is doing “everything possible” to try and identify who brought what the official described as a “dime-sized bag” into the West Wing. The official noted that identifying the culprit may be difficult because of the size of the bag and the number of people who would have had access to the area.

The Secret Service is going through visitor logs, surveillance video,  and relying on the analysis of the bag to try to advance their investigation, the official explained.