One of the crazier stories to show up this week (and the competition was fierce) involved a bag of cocaine being found at the White House. For one thing, the story kept changing on a daily basis. It was initially reported that the drugs were found “near” the White House. Later, the WaPo reported that it was found in the White House library, which would have placed it inside the executive mansion. But as the nation celebrated America’s birthday, the tale changed yet again. The Secret Service contradicted the library story, saying that the baggie of coke was not in the library. It was found “in a work area in the West Wing.” The location was described as being “in a storage facility in a cubby routinely used by White House staff and guests to store cellphones.” This would be a very interesting development indeed, particularly since it would limit the possible list of suspects significantly, making a potential investigation easier. Here is more from Redstate.

According to the new report, it was in an area where you would have top aides to Biden or guests.

So if top aides or guests of Joe Biden or his staff stash their stuff there, then the question is: Who put it there? This probably kills the “some random person from a tour brought it in” theory if it was found in that work area location. One would have to imagine that there are cameras and security all over the building. Who is bringing cocaine to the White House? Where are the cameras and the logs of the people who it could have been?

BREAKING: Multiple officials at @USSecretService tell @NEWSMAX that contrary to more recent published reports, the cocaine was found “in a work area in the West Wing,” not in the @WhiteHouse library—and that the cocaine was “in a baggie” when discovered, not loose or concealed.

— James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) July 4, 2023

I know what many of you are probably already thinking, but to be fair, it’s a bit premature to claim that it was Hunter Biden. You have no way to know how many crackheads are hanging around in Joe Biden’s orbit.

But all joking aside, the questions raised at Redstate are quite valid. The drugs must have been brought there quite recently. After all, if they were located in a “cubby” where people drop their phones and other electronic devices before going in to see the President, how long could a clear baggy of an unknown white powdery substance remain there without being noticed? There would have been immediate suspicions that it might have been some sort of poison.

And in an area like that, aren’t there Secret Service agents in the immediate vicinity whenever the Oval Office is occupied? And surely there must be security cameras all over the place. Someone should already be reviewing those recordings. Even if they didn’t capture the precise moment when the perpetrator dropped the baggie into the cubby, they should easily be able to narrow down the list of possible suspects pretty quickly.

Even if we assume that it wasn’t Hunter Biden, who else brings a bag of cocaine to (presumably) see the President? You’d have to be pretty seriously hooked on the drugs to be unable to leave them in the car until your meeting was finished. Also, a plastic baggie of coke wouldn’t be picked up by a metal detector. If you had carried them undetected all the way to the Oval Office working area, why would you then take them out of your pocket and drop them off with your cell phone?

‘So we need to leave our phones out here? Should I also leave my cocaine along with it?‘

‘Yes, that would probably be for the best.’

This doesn’t sound like any sort of sinister plot or drug smuggling operation. It sounds like a boneheaded maneuver by an idiot. Perhaps someone whose brain is a bit addled by their crack addiction? Either way, the big question at this point is whether or not there will actually be a comprehensive investigation and if the public will learn about their findings. If the results prove politically embarrassing for anyone in Joe Biden’s immediate orbit, I won’t be surprised if the entire story goes down the memory hole.