Nikki Haley tells Tucker Carlson the White House cocaine MUST have belonged to Hunter Biden or ‘someone very close to the president’ – and calls closing the case a ‘cover-up’
- GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley said the Secret Service’s closure of the White House cocaine probe was a ‘cover-up’
- She said in Iowa Friday that she believed the cocaine belonged to Hunter Biden or someone ‘very close to the president’
- ‘It is the most secure area anywhere,’ she said of where it was discovered
GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley called the Secret Service’s closure of the White House cocaine probe a ‘cover-up’ and boldly claimed the drugs must have belonged to Hunter Biden or someone ‘very close to the president.’
Haley appeared at Friday’s Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, where she sat down for an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Carlson was in the middle of blaming – without evidence – the Biden administration for sabotaging Nord Stream pipeline when Haley, the U.N. ambassador under former President Donald Trump, said the White House wasn’t being ‘accountable on anything’ pointing to the July 2 discovery of cocaine in the West Wing.
‘So I will tell you, I strongly believe this is a cover-up for either … Hunter or someone very close to the president and they don’t want to say who it is,’ the former South Carolina governor told the crowd.
She rejected the White House’s claim that ‘hundreds’ of people had access to the area, arguing, ‘It is the most secure area anywhere.’
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley (right) told Tucker Carlson (left) in Iowa Friday that she believed the White House cocaine belonged to either Hunter Biden or ‘someone very close’ to President Joe Biden
‘This is where, I on the National Security Council, with other members of the Security Council met with the president, you discuss the most secure things. I know the area where the locker is. People don’t just go in and out of there,’ she said.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said last Friday that the area has been under construction and so the Situation Room, which is nearby on that floor, is not currently in use.
Haley seemed unaware of that factor when she narrowed down the perpetrator to a shortlist of suspects.
‘It is either the president, the vice president, Cabinet, Cabinet members or deputy directors. Nobody else is going in there,’ Haley insisted. ‘There is some staff, but it’s immediate.’
‘I couldn’t take any staff but my deputy. The president would take his chief of staff. Very limited,’ she recalled.
‘So for them to say they don’t know who this was. Don’t tell me there’s no cameras in there. There are absolutely cameras in there,’ the former ambassador added.
She also pointed to the discovery of pot in the White House, which the Secret Service said Thursday occurred twice in 2022.
‘Why didn’t you do anything about that?’ she mused. ‘Who has time to go into the national security SCIF, open the locker and put drugs inside?’
‘Like that’s a bigger problem,’ she argued. ‘Because if you’ve got somebody doing cocaine deciding on national security that’s what I’m worried about.’
On Thursday, the Secret Service said the investigation into the cocaine had wrapped up and they weren’t able to identify the individual who brought it on campus and lost it in a cubby at the West Executive Avenue entrance.
A statement from the Secret Service said ‘no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area.’
Investigators were also not able to find fingerprints or DNA on the bag, so they could not ‘compare evidence against the known pool of individuals.’
Also on Thursday, Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell sent a cease-and-desist letter to Trump’s legal team asking the former president to tone down his rhetoric and also asked Trump to stop saying the White House cocaine belonged to the first son.
Republicans have claimed that the cocaine belonged to Hunter due to his well-documented history of drug abuse and addiction – including in his memoir and in photographs on the so-called ‘laptop from h***.’
