Discovery of "powdery substance" over holiday weekend at White House could be a legal headache for Hunter Biden and a political headache for his father

Secret Service agents gather to investigate powdery substance found at White House.

 

A white powder, suspected of being cocaine, was found in the White House library over the holiday weekend, raising questions if the substance belonged to first son, Hunter Biden, who has acknowledged being a recovering addict. Donald Watkins, a longtime Alabama attorney and criminal-defense expert, writes in a post at his Web site today that the discovery likely will cause fingers to point in the direction of President Joe Biden's son. Writes Watkins:

White powdery cocaine was found Sunday night in the White House Library. This is the first time in American history that recreational amounts of cocaine have been found inside the White House.

Sunday night, the discovery of an “unknown item” forced a brief evacuation of the White House and drew a Hazmat team from Washington, DC, Fire and EMS to the White House. The "unknown item" was a white powdery substance, which was tested at the scene.

The test was positive for cocaine, according to a dispatch call made that evening. “We have a yellow bar stating cocaine hydrochloride,” a D.C. firefighter stated in a radio communication at 8:49 p.m. on Sunday.

“Bag it up and take it out,” the firefighter told the Hazmat team.

From a report at Salon:

According to two law-enforcement officials who agreed to speak with the AP on the condition of anonymity, the white powder was not in any particular West Wing office. It was, however, in an area that is accessible to tour groups. Fire and emergency crews were brought to the Capitol to do a rapid preliminary field test, which reportedly identified the substance as cocaine 

Does the incident signal that Hunter Biden was snorting cocaine at the White House? Watkins addresses that question head-on:

First son Hunter Biden, who has acknowledged a prior addiction to crack cocaine, was on the White House grounds Friday before heading off to Camp David with his father for the holiday weekend.

Last month, federal prosecutors in Delaware "fixed" Hunter Biden's felony tax evasion and gun possession case in a way that spared him from going to prison.

According to a DOJ letter submitted to a Delaware federal court on June 20, 2023, Hunter Biden was charged with a “firearms offense – namely, one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(3) and 924 (a)(2) (2018).”

Section 922 is a felony “weapons” offense, as defined in the annual DOJ statistical reports.

Despite his felony gun possession charge, federal prosecutors have allowed Hunter Biden to enter a pretrial diversion program so that he can avoid a mandatory minimum 5-year prison sentence.

A review of the annual DOJ statistical reports for 2001 to 2021 shows that not one of the 185,082 “weapons” cases prosecuted during this 20-year period was referred by federal prosecutors to a pretrial diversion program.

U.S. v. Hunter Biden is the first and only time a federal offender has enjoyed this kind of preferential treatment in a felony firearms case.

Hunter Biden has been hanging out at the White House since April. He also frequently flies on Air Force One and Marine One. Hunter Biden even has his own Secret Service detail.

Photos, text messages, and other communications establish that Hunter Biden is a longtime crack-smoking drug addict. He smokes crack cocaine at his home and while driving his car.

According to Watkins, the discovery over the weekend raises some particularly disturbing questions about Hunter Biden and his admitted ties to cocaine:

Unlike plea deals in other drug cases, federal prosecutors did not require Hunter Biden to give up the name of his drug supplier as part of his plea deal.

Hunter's drug dealer is apparently still peddling cocaine in powder and crack form on the streets of Delaware and (perhaps) inside the White House.

A more disturbing question is this: Does Hunter Biden have a Secret Service agent who is fetching powder and crack cocaine from a street drug dealer and bringing it into the White House for Hunter's recreational use?

We don’t know the answer to this burning question and no federal law-enforcement agency seems to be interested in finding out the answer to this question.

Much still is not known about the discovery of white powder at the White House. But the incident has the potential to be a legal headache for Hunter Biden -- and a political headache for his father, writes Watkins:

Hunter Biden’s continued use of cocaine in any form is a violation of the conditions of his pretrial release. However, nobody inside of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice seems to care about this violation.

The DOJ has babied, pampered, and protected Hunter Biden throughout its criminal investigation of him. Hunter Biden has shown all Americans that he is above the law.

Now we know that Hunter Biden can smoke crack cocaine and snort powder cocaine whenever and wherever he wants. Hunter Biden will not face serious consequences for engaging in felonious conduct. Hunter Biden can do as he pleases.

After all, Hunter Biden is America’s First Son.