Trump: Secret Service found White House cocaine culprit despite closing its probe with no suspect

Donald Trump insists the Secret Service found out who brought cocaine into the White House — despite the agency closing the investigation unsolved last week.

The former president said the US Secret Service (USSS) is full of “smart” people and said it’s “impossible” they haven’t found the culprit.

An agent found a bag containing less than a gram of cocaine in the compartment of a cell phone locker in the West Wing on July 2, prompting a hazmat evacuation of the White House. The Secret Service has launched an investigation to find out who brought the illegal drug to one of the safest locations in the US

USSS informed Congress on Thursday and said they would close the investigation even though they didn’t know who brought cocaine to the property.

“You know, I’ve come to know the Secret Service really well, and I can’t speak higher of people — these are incredible people,” Trump told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo in an interview that aired Sunday.

“And I think they know everything,” he insisted. “They’re very smart and very good at what they do.”

“I don’t think it’s possible for bags of cocaine to be left in a particular area, at the Situation Room – I’m not talking about, you know, five blocks away. The Situation Room – where you decide war, where you decide nuclear…”

Critics of Joe Biden immediately jumped to their own conclusions, claiming that the president’s recovering addicted son, Hunter, 52, was responsible for the drugs.

USSS told lawmakers they narrowed the list of suspects to about 500 people and said it would be too difficult and a waste of resources to find the perpetrator, so they would close the investigation due to a “lack of evidence” in a stunning movement close only 11 years. days after the drugs were left in a West Wing locker.

Furious Republicans called the closure of the investigation “ridiculous” and accused the Biden administration of a “cover-up,” with officers unable to find a suspect despite studying surveillance footage for more than a week

“The FBI has massive credibility issues, the DOJ is armed like I’ve never seen before,” Trump said in an interview that aired on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures program.

“I mean, they come after me with boxes and they can’t find drugs,” he complained, linking his case of classified documents to the most recent White House scandal.

“Do you know how many cameras they have facing the front door of the Situation Room where these drugs were?” he wondered. “They know who this was, they know the person. It’s impossible – how can they not know the person?’

GOP Representative Tim Burchett said officers “just decided it’s just a weekend visitor,” and attributed the entire investigation as “another cover-up” by the Biden White House.

“It’s fake,” the Tennessee congressman added. “That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Trump agrees, claiming that Biden is corrupt.

“The last few weeks I have been very mean and very tough and very honest. He’s a corrupt man, he’s a corrupt president, he’s totally incompetent.”

Democrats said drug testing of all potential 500-plus perpetrators would violate their “civil liberties” and insisted the cocaine was found in an area used by guests, not members of the Biden family or those with security clearances .

Trump said only people with “strong passes” and relatives of White House staff with offices can get through the doors where the lockers are located.

Since July 2, the Secret Service had been studying surveillance footage from cameras stationed throughout the White House, but has still not been able to find a culprit.

Meanwhile, Biden was able to avoid the latest scandal by escaping to Europe for meetings with foreign leaders.

According to the secret service, no fingerprints or other DNA were found on the container with the cocaine. And there was less than a gram of the illegal drug in the dime-sized ziplock bag.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Secret Service officials informed lawmakers at Thursday’s briefing that they had narrowed the list of suspected perpetrators to about 500 people.

“Did they drug-test this list of 500 potential suspects who brought an illegal substance — the drug cocaine — into the White House,” Greene told reporters after the briefing. “Their answer was no, and that they are not willing to do that.”

With no immediate answers from the USSS or the Biden administration about the cocaine discovery with nearly two weeks to investigate the matter, members of Congress demanded briefings.

Trump-era CBP director and former FBI agent Mark Morgan told DailyMail.com last week that the case is “straightforward” and could be resolved in 30 minutes.

Morgan and Rep. Burchett separately noted that there are cameras everywhere with facial recognition technology that could provide answers to who brought the cocaine into the White House.

Republican members of Congress are unlikely to be happy if the USSS closes the investigation without finding out who is responsible for bringing the illegal drug into the West Wing.

“I just left the most ridiculous meeting of all time with the Secret Service about the cocaine found in the White House,” Rep. Burchett said in a video he recorded walking through Congress after Thursday’s briefing.

“It turns out — they don’t know who did it,” he said. “The investigation will be finished by the end of this week and they won’t find out who did it. And that’s it really.’

“Another cover,” the lawmaker added. “You know, it’s the most secure building in the world… No one, not even the press, goes in there without their knowledge.”

He called the outcome a “bad view of the Secret Service and a horrible view of this White House.”

The substance was found Sunday, July 2, prompting a hazmat evacuation of the White House while President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David for the long holiday weekend.

Now, 14 days after the discovery, Congress still doesn’t know how the drug became one of the safest places in the US — and USSS has no plans to provide definitive answers.

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman James Comer wrote to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle last week asking for a July 14 briefing, which took place Thursday morning.

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton also called for a briefing and in a public letter pressed Cheatle for information. The senator’s office, then reached by DailyMail.com, said they have not yet received a response from Cheatle.

The location for the cocaine discovery has changed three times since its discovery: first in the library, then in a work area in the west wing, and finally in a cell phone locker.

For nearly two weeks from discovery to briefing, there were no signs from officials as to who is to blame for bringing the illegal drug to the compound and the Biden administration continued to brush off questions about the matter.

However, Biden critics came to their own conclusion, claiming that Hunter is responsible for bringing cocaine into the White House.

Secret Service and Administration officials remained silent on the details of the discovery — which only fueled trolls who want to link the incident to Hunter Biden.

A full statement from the USSS was released Thursday following the briefing that detailed what the agency was doing to investigate the matter.

But it concluded by saying it would close the investigation without finding who brought the cocaine into the White House.

“No surveillance video footage was found that provided investigative clues or other means for investigators to identify who deposited the found substance in this area,” the statement claims.

“Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to distinguish a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who walked through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered.”

The statement ended with, “At this time, the Secret Service investigation is closed due to lack of physical evidence.”

Republicans and other critics are likely to call this BS.

Several former officials familiar with where the cocaine was found say there are cameras, guestbook logs and security at all times in the West Wing where the cocaine was left.

The evidence, Morgan told DailyMail.com last week, would definitely be available to identify the perpetrator in a priority case like this.