Update: Radio dispatch calls indicate that the substance found at the White House is indeed cocaine. The New York Post reported on Tuesday that the substance tested positive for cocaine hydrochloride and references radio dispatch calls. "We have a yellow bar stating cocaine hydrochloride," a firefighter said on Sunday night, who told the hazmat team to "bag it up and take it out."
The report also includes details about Hunter Biden's whereabouts:
Authorities are now trying to determine how the substance got into the White House after a Secret Service agent found the powder during a routine sweep of the premises.
First son Hunter Biden, 53, who has acknowledged a prior addiction to crack cocaine, was on the White House grounds Friday before heading off to Camp David with his father for the holiday weekend.
They returned to Washington Tuesday morning.
Such reports have led to increased chatter, with "Cocaine, "White House," and "Secret Service" all trending on Twitter in connection to such a discovery.
As our friends at Twitchy have highlighted, pointing to a series of threads, the cocaine looks to have been found in the White House library, leading to speculation that the Secret Service knows who left it there.
CAMERAS: We know the White House library is under 24/7 video surveillance and as a result we can be certain the Secret Service knows exactly who left cocaine in the room. Did Hunter know? https://t.co/7pKSMeG6eV…
— @amuse (@amuse) July 4, 2023
Original: The White House had to be evacuated on Sunday, as a precaution, due to the discovery of an "unknown item," which Fox News reported as confirmed later that night. "As a precaution, the White House grounds were evacuated, and the DC Fire Departments Hazmat team responded," a U.S. Secret Service (USSS) spokesperson told Fox News Digital. A hazmat team had to respond, and roadways around the White House were blocked, though the roads since re-opened. While the item was deemed to be "non-hazardous" by DC Emergency Medical officials, it's definitely raising eyebrows in that the item is reportedly cocaine hydrochloride.
🚨#UPDATE: DC Fire Hazmat officials reports they have found a substance that tests positive for Cocaine Hydrochloride near the White House
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) July 3, 2023
BREAKING: Cocaine Hydrochloride spotted near West Executive Wing pic.twitter.com/cJLr2rnEDU
— The Triune Times (@TriuneTimes) July 3, 2023
So, cocaine hydrochloride is a local anesthetic agent that doctors use in the nasal mucous membranes prior to surgery. That's a random enough item to find outside the White House, and cocaine hydrochloride isn't used for that so often anymore. It happens to be coke.
Newsmax is saying that a source told White House correspondent James Rosen that it's believed to be cocaine, though the USSS wouldn't confirm, since it's "an on-going investigation." The substance is in the lab for further analysis.
Brittany Sheehan over at our sister site of RedState highlighted this fact-sheet from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on cocaine, with added emphasis:
...What is its legal status in the United States? Cocaine is a Schedule II drug under theControlled Substances Act, meaning it has a high potential for abuse and has an accepted medical use for treatment in the United States. Cocaine hydrochloride solution (4 percent and 10 percent)is used primarily as a topical local anesthetic for the upper respiratory tract. It also is used to reduce bleeding of the mucous membranes in the mouth, throat, and nasal cavities. However, more effective products have been developed for these purposes, and cocaine is now rarely used medically in the United States.
The news comes after a "Molotov cocktail-style objects" was detonated outside three buildings in Northeast D.C. While nobody was injured or killed, and it's not clear as to if the two are related, it's still a wild time for both to be happening at the same weekend.
Matt Margolis, writing at our sister site of PJ Media, asked some questions that are no doubt on plenty of other people's minds. "Is the discovered package of cocaine hydrochloride definitely connected to Hunter Biden[,]" he asked, referring to the First Son's addiction, of which he's supposedly recovered from. "That’s not clear at this point, but are we really expected to believe that what was found was actually just nasal spray?"