Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday pushed a wild theory: that President Joe Biden was going to do cocaine to “get pumped up” for next week’s presidential debate.
Trump was addressing his supporters at a rally Tuesday in Racine, Wisconsin, when he asked if any of them planned to tune in to next week’s debate.
On June 27, CNN will host the first of two planned general election debates at the network’s Atlanta headquarters, featuring Trump and Biden, after the campaigns worked out debate logistics last month. In both 2020 and 2024, Trump asked Biden to take a drug test, but those demands were ignored.
“He’s going to be very excited, he’s going to be very excited,” Trump said of Biden. —Do you know all those things that were missing a month ago in the White House? What happened?’ -Trump asked.
“Someone didn’t get hold of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine,” the former president continued. ‘I wonder who it could have been. I don’t know. Actually, I think it was Joe.
Former President Donald Trump promoted a wild theory Tuesday at his campaign rally in Racine, Wisconsin: that President Joe Biden was going to do cocaine to “get pumped up” for next week’s presidential debate.
DailyMail.com was the first outlet to publish photos of the bag of cocaine found in the White House last July, when the Bidens were at Camp David before the July 4 holiday.
Trump was likely referencing cocaine discovered in a White House cubicle nearly a year ago.
A small bag of cocaine was found in the lockers where both staff and guests place their phones on July 2, 2023.
The discovery came when Biden and his family, including his son Hunter, were at Camp David ahead of the July 4 holiday.
In November, DailyMail.com was the first to report on the photographs of the small bag of cocaine, provided by the Secret Service in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
The discovery prompted an evacuation of the West Wing and the closure of streets around the White House and then triggered an 11-day investigation once the substance was identified as the illicit drug.
The Secret Service closed the investigation in less than two weeks due to “lack of evidence.”
The list of suspects had been narrowed to 500, but security footage could not determine the owner since the cameras are not pointed at the locker area. It is unclear if any suspects were interviewed during the brief investigation.
Some of Trump’s allies suggested that President Joe Biden’s spirited performance at this year’s State of the Union address was because he took the lead.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s response to questions about whether the cocaine could belong to a certain Biden came by pointing out that they were not at home.
Hunter Biden has a long and documented history of drug use and was found guilty last week of three federal gun charges after lying about his sobriety when purchasing a gun in 2018.
Several Republicans blamed Hunter for cocaine discovered in the White House without evidence.
At that point, Trump floated the bag of drugs that belonged to both Joe and Hunter.
Trump allies also reflected that the president was on top after his spirited performance at this year’s State of the Union.
‘Sometimes it was uncomfortable for me to see him scream and. yelling and speeding up that speech,” said Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity. ‘The AP affectionately called him ‘feisty.’ I guess that’s one way to describe it. Tonight, America saw, shall we say, a very different Joe Biden.”
“You could call it ‘Joe Jacked-Up,'” Hannity continued, according to media. ”And that is being charitable. He looked like an angry, highly caffeinated old man.
During a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt in April, Trump claimed that Biden “was taller than a kite” in the State of the Union address.
There is no evidence that Biden has ever used drugs.
Both he and Trump do not drink alcohol.