Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said on Friday that as a person who spent time in the White House, she “strongly” believes there has been a cover-up in the investigation into cocaine found in the West Wing because there is “very limited” access to the area where it was found.
Haley’s comments during an interview with Tucker Carlson at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit in Iowa come one day after the Secret Service said it had closed its investigation into the cocaine that was found on July 2 “inside a receptacle used to temporarily store electronic and personal devices prior to entering the West Wing” after no fingerprints or DNA were found. Officials said they were “not able” to “single out a person of interest” because of the lack of physical evidence.
The Secret Service stated that no surveillance video footage was found that “provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area.”
“Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered,” the statement concluded. “At this time, the Secret Service’s investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence.”
Haley said Friday that the Biden’s “aren’t being accountable on anything” and cited the cocaine as an example.
“Everything that they’re saying is that hundreds of people went through this area,” the presidential candidate said. “No, I’ve been to that area. It is the most secure area anywhere because this is where I, on the National Security Council, with other members of national security met with the president. You discuss the most secure things. I know the area where the locker is — people don’t just go in and out of there.”
“It is either the president, the vice president . . . cabinet members or deputy directors,” she added. “Nobody else is going in there. There is some staff, but it’s immediate. I couldn’t take any staff but my deputy. The president would take his chief of staff. Very limited.”
She added that there are “absolutely cameras” in the area where the cocaine was found.
“I strongly believe this is a cover-up for either Hunter or someone very close to the president and they don’t want to say who it is,” she said, referring to President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who has a well-established substance use problem.
She also expressed concern about the Secret Service’s disclosure that marijuana had been found on the White House premises twice in 2022.
“Per the Secret Service Uniformed Division, small amounts of marijuana were found on two occasions in 2022 (June and September), at a checkpoint,” the agency told National Review in a statement on Thursday evening.
“Who has the time to go into the national security SCIF, open the locker, and put drugs in,” Haley said. “That’s a bigger problem if you’ve got somebody doing cocaine and deciding on national security. That’s what I’m worried about.”