WASHINGTON.- The laboratory tests carried out on the substance found on Sunday in the White House They tested positive for cocaine, according to a Secret Service spokesman quoted by the US television network CNN, after previous tests gave the same result.
The substance was located near the entrance to the ground floor of the West Wing, according to sources familiar with the matter. Guided tours by White House staff pass through that place and, in fact, it was found near the place where visitors are asked to leave their mobile phones before entering the West Wing.
The fact that Secret Service agents located the suspected substance prompted a brief evacuation of the building as part of what was described as a “precautionary lockdown.” President Joe Biden was at Camp David over the weekend as authorities investigate who brought the cocaine into the White House.
In this sense, the spokeswoman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, said that she is confident that the Secret Service “will get to the bottom” of the matter and that the substance was located in an area “with a lot of movement of people” in the Wing West, an area through which visitors and staff members pass.
He explained that Biden has been informed “about everything that is known so far”, while refusing to “speculate” about who could have introduced the cocaine into the building.
For his part, former United States President Donald Trump hinted that the drug was intended for the current tenant of the White House or his son Hunter. “Does anyone 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 someone other than Hunter and Joe Biden?” Trump asked in a message posted on his account. on the Truth Social social network.
Thus, he stressed that “the fake news media will begin to say that the amount found is ‘very small’ and that it is not really cocaine, but a mixture of aspirin and the matter will vanish.” “Has the insane Jack Smith, the crazy special prosecutor who hates Trump, been seen in the area where the cocaine was? It seems to me that he is a crack addict,” the former president concluded, referring to the special adviser to the State Department Jack Smith.
FUENTE: With information from EUROPA PRESS and AFP
