# White House cocaine **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 5, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662 "2023-07-05T18:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/1 "2023-07-05T18:39:11Z")
I know you all have your theories. Whose is it? Did Biden know? How will the Republicans spin it? ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/2 "2023-07-05T18:50:07Z")
I don’t think there’s a lot of mystery here. From CNN: > The substance was found near the ground floor entrance to the West Wing, a person familiar with the matter said. The location is where staff-led tours of the White House pass through on their way into the building. > The substance was found near where guests are asked to leave their cell phones before proceeding into the West Wing. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/3 "2023-07-05T18:53:33Z")
Well, I’m not normally one to be swayed by branding, but “White House Cocaine” does have a certain allure to it. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/4 "2023-07-05T19:10:29Z")
Coming soon to a theater near you: “Cocaine Prez”. Imagine the hijinx! Of course the right-wing-o-sphere will seize on this and spawn endless conspiracy theories on how Hunter Biden and his laptop had a relapse and did not know he already has access to the President without having to go on a tour for the commoners, but when emptying his pocket the baggie got left behind, and that the cocaine tested positive for fentanyl that was manufactured in Meximala and smuggled across the border in the purse of an innocent-looking grandmother who wants to have her anchor baby in the US… ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/5 "2023-07-05T19:15:48Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Coming soon to a theater near you: “Cocaine Prez”. Imagine the hijinx! Didn’t Bush the Elder appear live, from the Oval Office, on national television, proudly displaying a bag of crack cocaine that he’d recently arranged to acquire from a local drug dealer? Hardly seems fair to brand Biden for what Bush I has already done to death. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/6 "2023-07-05T19:19:43Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > How will the Republicans spin it? I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure that’s not how you use the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/7 "2023-07-05T19:22:14Z")
It’s already happening. Just yesterday I saw someone driving around with 4x8 signs that said “Cocaine in the Ukraine Staring Hunter and Joe Biden”. One thing I have to give the conspiracy nuts credit for is being able to create the narrative that they want. They’re going to be able to spread the “Hunter Biden left cocaine in the WH” story 100x faster and farther than the truth ever go. The only fact they need is that cocaine was found in the WH. They won’t care when it was found, where it was found, who left it, etc. None of that matters. Cocaine was found in the WH, therefore it was Hunter Biden’s. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/8 "2023-07-05T19:30:03Z")
The White Powder House? Pity this is all too late for that Biden Crime Family movie: [My Son Hunter](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Son_Hunter#:~:text=My%20Son%20Hunter%20is%20a,of%20US%20president%20Joe%20Biden.). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/9 "2023-07-05T19:40:52Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Hardly seems fair to brand Biden for what Bush I has already done to death. This is satire, right? ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/10 "2023-07-05T19:42:07Z")
It’s really hard to say. Is it really satire to apply logic to a conspiracy theory? I mean, I’m dead serious about the Bush I crack cocaine thing: that really happened. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/11 "2023-07-05T19:43:18Z")
You are trying to apply logic to the Republican Party, though. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/12 "2023-07-05T22:04:47Z")
And here I thought it was left by the staffers of the previous administration. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/13 "2023-07-05T22:13:26Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Well, I’m not normally one to be swayed by branding, but “White House Cocaine” does have a certain allure to it. Obama had beer brewed on site, Dark Brandon ups the ante in a big way! Seriously, it sounds like it was found in a place where visitors drop off their phones and stuff (cocaine) before entering more sensitive areas. I’m going with “White House visitor who suddenly realized that options weren’t plentiful Drop.” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/14 "2023-07-05T22:15:26Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Didn’t Bush the Elder appear live, from the Oval Office, on national television, proudly displaying a bag of crack cocaine that he’d recently arranged to acquire from a local drug dealer? Yes, and he ominously intoned that it was acquired in a park right across from the White House (except, when the agent told the dealer where to meet him, he had to give directions, because the dealer had no idea where that was). ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/15 "2023-07-05T22:31:13Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I’m going with “White House visitor who suddenly realized that options weren’t plentiful Drop.” Reminds me of this SNL skit. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4IRn4fLjI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4IRn4fLjI) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/16 "2023-07-05T22:34:25Z")
Y’all aren’t going to believe this … but it seems that Donald Trump may have gone off the rails about this WH cocaine thing: > **[Trump launches hysterical rant about cocaine found in the White House](https://news.yahoo.com/trump-launches-hysterical-rant-cocaine-201934651.html)** > > Former president says ‘Fake News Media will soon start saying that the amount found was ‘very small,’ & it wasn’t really COCAINE, but rather common ground up Aspirin’ > “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,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday. [Which – in my personal version of reality – prompted Don, Jr. to text his father with, “Dad! STFU. That coke is _mine!_”] ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/17 "2023-07-05T22:36:48Z")
When Trump capitalizes COCAINE does that mean he’s shouting it like the audience in that famous Clapton live version? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/18 "2023-07-06T00:00:20Z")
> **[Alex Jones spins 'cocaine' conspiracy theory where Biden murders Secret...](https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-cocaine-theory/)** > > Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reacted to reports that cocaine was found at the White House by accusing President Joe Biden of plotting murder against Secret Service agents.Jones kicked off his Wednesday program with a conspiracy theory about the... Yes, you can out-crazy Trump. It keeps taking more effort but they’re more than willing to give it a go. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/19 "2023-07-06T00:04:05Z")
It’s reassuring to see that that guy learned his lesson. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662/20 "2023-07-06T00:08:15Z")
Hasn’t he been bankrupted yet? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-cocaine/986662.md?page=2)