Officials stated Wednesday that the white substance found in the white house was identified as cocaine and was left in an area regularly utilized by guests on tours, not while President Joe Biden and his family were present.
The White House attempted to keep the strange narrative under control as details of the drug's discovery Sunday in one of the world's most closely guarded buildings surfaced.
The initial reports were of a white powder, raising concerns about the type of incident that frequently occurs in official Washington buildings, where strange powders discovered during searches or sent in the mail are investigated as potential chemical attacks.
This resulted in a brief evacuation. However, when an early investigation by city fire department technicians revealed that the substance was cocaine, a whole other set of sirens went out.
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ON WEDNESDAY, the US Secret Service, which guards the White House, tweeted that it "just confirmed that substance found was cocaine and our investigation is ongoing."
After the Donald Trump years, which featured claims that the Republican president tended to dump documents down toilets, Biden has prioritized restoring traditional decorum to the White House.
The 80-year-old Democrat, on the other hand, has been dogged by sensational reporting about his son Hunter's difficult private life, not least the educated lawyer's well-documented battle with severe drug addiction.
The cocaine admission generated unverified suspicion in right-wing quarters that the recovering drug user was to blame.
"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 asked in a typically meandering, insult-laden statement on Wednesday.
To end the rumours, the White House unequivocally stated that circumstantial evidence leads to a guest, not somebody close to the Bidens.
