Nikki Haley tells Tucker Carlson the cocaine in the White House MUST have belonged to Hunter Biden or “someone very close to the president” — calling closing the case a “cover up”
- GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Secret Service closure of White House cocaine investigation was a ‘cover-up’
- She said in Iowa on Friday that she believed the cocaine belonged to Hunter Biden or someone “very close to the president”
- “It’s the safest area anywhere,” she said of where it was discovered
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley called the Secret Service closure of the White House cocaine investigation a “cover-up,” boldly claiming the drugs must have belonged to Hunter Biden or someone “very close to the president.”
Haley appeared Friday at the 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 process of blaming the Biden administration – without evidence – for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline when Haley, the UN ambassador under former President Donald Trump, said the White House was not “responsible for anything,” pointing on the July 2 discovery of cocaine in the West Wing.
“So I’ll tell you, I strongly believe this is a front for…Hunter or someone very close to the president and they won’t 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’s the safest area anywhere.”
Republican presidential nominee Nikki Haley (right) told Tucker Carlson (left) in Iowa on Friday that she believed the cocaine in the White House belonged to Hunter Biden or “someone very close to” President Joe Biden
“Here, I from the National Security Council, with other members of the Security Council, I met the president, you discuss the safest things. I know the area where the safe is. People don’t just go in and out of there,” she said.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said last Friday that the area was under construction and that the Situation Room, located nearby on that floor, is not currently in use.
Haley seemed oblivious to that factor as she narrowed down the perpetrator to a shortlist of suspects.
“It’s either the president, the vice president, cabinet, cabinet members or deputy directors. No one else goes in there,” Haley insisted. “There’s some staff, but it’s immediate.”
“I couldn’t hire any staff except my deputy. The president would bring 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 aren’t any cameras there. It definitely has cameras in it,” the former ambassador added.
She also pointed to the discovery of weed in the White House, which the Secret Service said happened twice in 2022 on Thursday.
Hunter Biden was back on the West Coast on Thursday after spending July 4 at the White House. On Friday, Nikki Haley joined the chorus of Republicans who claimed — without evidence — that the White House cocaine belonged to the first son
“Why didn’t you do anything about it?” she mused. “Who has time to enter the national security SCIF, open the locker and put drugs in it?”
“As if that’s a bigger problem,” she countered. “Because when you have someone who uses cocaine and decides on national security, that worries me.”
On Thursday, the Secret Service said its investigation into the cocaine was complete and they were unable to identify the person who brought it to campus and lost it in a box near the West Executive Avenue entrance.
A Secret Service statement said “no surveillance video footage was found that provided investigative leads or other means for investigators to identify who deposited the found substance in this area.”
Investigators also couldn’t find any fingerprints or DNA on the bag, so they couldn’t “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 asking Trump to stop talking. say the White House cocaine belonged to the first son.
Republicans have claimed the cocaine belonged to Hunter because of his well-documented history of drug abuse and addiction – including in his memoirs and in photos on the so-called “laptop of h***”.