Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday questioned whether the Secret Service concluded its investigations into cocaine found in the West Wing of the White House earlier this month without identifying a suspect.
"Secret Service has no suspect in the White House cocaine case? That's ridiculous and absurd." Marco Rubio said in a video posted on Twitter.
Secret Service has no suspect in the White House cocaine case?
That's ridiculous and absurd. pic.twitter.com/SUURMJZxu0
— Senator Marco Rubio (@SenMarcoRubio) July 13, 2023
Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) disagreed with the conclusions and described them as "false." "They have facial identification, they have — y’all know you can’t go in there without giving your Social Security number, and to say that it's just some weekend visitor, that’s bogus. Nobody’s buying that at all," Burchett told The New York Post.
Meanwhile, fellow Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said that American citizens have the right to know who was to blame for the situation. "The American people deserve to know who smuggled illegal narcotics into the White House," said Taylor Greene.
The Secret Service has narrowed down 500 people as the potential source of cocaine in the White House.
But they are ending the investigation tomorrow without administering drug tests to these individuals. A total failure.
The American people deserve to know who smuggled illegal… pic.twitter.com/I9tP4LkLyH
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 13, 2023
Cocaine investigation at the White House
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee released a statement last Friday announcing the initiation of the investigation. "The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable (...) This incident and the eventual evacuation of staff now clearly raises concerns about the level of security being maintained at the White House," said Kentucky Republican Representative James Comer, who sent a letter to U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
The committee's efforts came after the Joe Biden administration invoked the Hatch Act as an excuse for not answering questions about the drugs found in the West Wing of the White House.
After the information went public, former President Donald Trump addressed the situation. "Does anyone really believe that the cocaine found in the West Wing of the White House, very close to the Oval Office, is for use by anyone other than Hunter & Joe Biden," Trump wrote on his social networking site Truth Social.
