Former President Donald Trump has accused the current President of the United States of cocaine “use,” writing on his Truth Social platform: “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.”
Further along in his post, Trump characterizes Jack Smith — the Special Counsel who has brought federal charges against Trump as part of an ongoing investigation — of looking “like a crackhead.”
Fact check:
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Biden wasn’t even at the White House all weekend. The cocaine was found on Sunday. Biden didn’t return until Tuesday.
It was also found near the ground floor entrance where West Wing visitors enter the building.
There were several tours this weekend. pic.twitter.com/mUSoSSaGQV
Trump also predicts the “Fake News Media” will be complicit in a cocaine cover-up, diminishing the story until it “will vanish.”
Trump is responding, of course, to the news that a white substance, later identified as cocaine, was found on the ground floor of the West Wing.
Accusing Biden, who just admitted using a C-PAP machine to help him sleep at night due to sleep apnea, of cocaine use seems far-fetched to many — and not merely because were the cocaine for the President’s use, it would more likely be found in the Oval Office, not near it.
(Or, had it truly been for the President’s use, the drug would have made the trip with the POTUS to Camp David for the weekend.)
People are less likely to dismiss the notion of the found cocaine being related to Hunter Biden‘s sometime presence at the White House, as the younger Biden, a recovering addict, has a history of drug use.
Common addiction practices, however, make a compelling case for the cocaine not belonging to Hunter either: Drug addicts, as a rule, don’t leave their drugs behind. They don’t forget their drugs. They keep their drugs close.
Trump is an expert at accusations, a talent acknowledged by both his admirers and detractors. Here he knows the territory as the cocaine insinuation is similar to accusations he himself has faced.
“Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?” That’s a tweet from former presidential candidate and medical doctor Howard Dean, noting Trump’s sniffling performance during his first debate with Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Dean’s accusation went viral at the time and caused a stir and speculation about Trump — a lifelong teetotaler — indulging in cocaine.
Dean walked back the charge — sort of — in the aftermath, saying “I don’t think this is a ridiculous idea. Something funny was going on with Trump last night. Do I think it was cocaine? Probably not,” he said.
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