{"id":1965206,"date":"2023-07-05T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-trump-respond-to-cocaine-controversy-at-white-house\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T03:15:48","slug":"desantis-trump-respond-to-cocaine-controversy-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-trump-respond-to-cocaine-controversy-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis and Trump address White House cocaine controversy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-trump-respond-to-cocaine-controversy-at-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965206&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> and former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u2014 the leading Republican Party candidates for the 2024 presidential nomination \u2014 had some interesting responses to the discovery of cocaine in the White House this week.<\/h2>\n<p>It all started when officials found a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-trump-respond-to-cocaine-controversy-at-white-house\/\" title=\"DeSantis and Trump address White House cocaine controversy.\">mysterious white powdery substance<\/a> in the West Wing on Sunday. Initial testing indicated that it was cocaine, and on Wednesday, the Secret Service confirmed that it was indeed cocaine after further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the news during an interview with Tomi Lahren on \u201cOutkick,\u201d DeSantis couldn&#8217;t help but make a witty remark. He said, \u201cI<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-calls-on-biden-to-speak-out-forcefully-against-potential-violence-against-justices-disruptions-of-catholic-masses\/\" title=\"Pence Calls On Biden To \u2018Speak Out Forcefully\u2019 Against Potential Violence Against Justices, Disruptions Of Catholic Masses\">\u2019ve long believed<\/a>, I think a lot of us have believed that the Biden administration has been blowing it on a lot of fronts. But I guess it\u2019s a little bit more literal than even I had thought. I could tell you in Florida, my wife and I, we have a six, five, and a three-year-old running around the governor\u2019s mansion. So that\u2019s not something that we see. We do have to occasionally get slime out of the carpet and get marker off the wallpaper. But that\u2019s the extent of our adventures at the governor\u2019s mansion.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cA lot of us have believed the Biden administration has been blowing it on a lot of fronts \u2026 I guess it\u2019s a little more literal than even I had thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RonDeSantis<\/a> responds to cocaine being found in the White House \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4EvmRSc4YI\">pic.twitter.com\/4EvmRSc4YI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeSantis War Room \ud83d\udc0a (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeSantisWarRoom\/status\/1676689723186724868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> to share his thoughts on the matter. He suggested that the culprit behind the cocaine discovery could be President Joe Biden, Biden\u2019s son Hunter Biden, or special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-former-doctor-slams-bidens-press-conference-performance-he-struggled-to-make-it-through\/\" title=\"Obama\u2019s Former Doctor Slams Biden\u2019s Press Conference Performance: \u2018He Struggled To Make It Through\u2019\">federal criminal investigations<\/a> into Trump. Trump wrote, \u201cDoes anybody 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 anyone other than Hunter &#038; Joe Biden? But watch, the Fake News Media will soon start saying that the amount found was \u2018very small,\u2019 &#038; it wasn\u2019t really COCAINE, but rather common ground up Aspirin, &#038; the story will vanish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1688648178298000&#038;usg=AOvVaw10v0UGh9BJZV8inaPuI6t7\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Trump didn&#8217;t stop there. He also questioned whether the &#8220;crazy, Trump-hating&#8221; special prosecutor Jack Smith had any involvement in the cocaine discovery. Trump even went as far as to say, \u201cHe looks like a crackhead to me!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump reacts to cocaine being found at the White House, speculating it could be President Biden\u2019s, Hunter Biden\u2019s, or Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eHjcnviAwb\">pic.twitter.com\/eHjcnviAwb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Elkind (@liz_elkind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liz_elkind\/status\/1676683476223815683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump, top contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, addressed the recent cocaine discovery in the White House. 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