Trump claims 'either Joe or Hunter' Biden left cocaine in White House

President Donald Trump claimed 'either Joe or Hunter' Biden left cocaine in the White House as he vowed to open an investigation.

The drug had been found in a locker near the Oval Office on July 2 2023 while the Biden family - including Hunter - were spending the weekend at Camp David.

It prompted an evacuation of the White House, and triggered an 11-day investigation once it was identified as the illicit drug. 

But no suspects were ever named.

Now, Trump said he is convinced either 'Joe or Hunter' misplaced the drugs.

'That was such a terrible thing because, you know, those bins are very loaded up with... and they're not clean and they have hundreds and even thousands of fingerprints,' he told The Spectator World's Ben Domenech.

'And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right?'

'By the way, and I have to tell you, I think I'm going to look into that because ... bad stuff happened there.' 

The lockers leading to the West Wing are not assigned to specific personnel, a source familiar with the setup told DailyMail.com.

Instead, guests visiting the White House can choose a locker to use and then take a key. 

The same source also said that someone taking a tour was the likeliest culprit because anyone with any familiarity of the White House would know that there's a bathroom steps away where the contraband could have been flushed.

A Secret Service investigation into the drugs was closed in less than two weeks due to a 'lack of evidence' as security footage was not able to determine the owner.

'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,' it said in a statement. 

The agency added that the cocaine was sent for 'destruction' on July 14, just one day after the probe wrapped up. 

A damning report from Real Clear Politics later claimed former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle reportedly knew the cocaine would bring a media firestorm with it due to the Hunter's widely chronicled drug use.

The former first son had written an entire memoir detailing his hourly need for crack cocaine, which he has said he became sober from in 2019.

First daughter Ashley Biden also struggled with drug use and has been to a rehab facility. 

The Real Clear Politics article claimed that vault supervisor Matt White received a call from Cheatle or someone speaking on her behalf, asking him to destroy the baggie because agency leaders wanted to close the case. 

But under protocol, the Secret Service has to maintain evidence for a period of up to seven years, a source told the outlet.

Three sources also told Real Clear Politics that while no fingerprints were detected, the FBI lab found some DNA material. 

Sources said the agency ran the DNA material against national criminal databases and 'got a partial hit,' meaning that the DNA matched a blood relative of the person whose DNA was left on the bag. 

'The Congressional oversight committees need to put White under oath and confirm the "partial hit,"' a source told RCP. 

'Then the FBI needs to explain who the partial hit was against, then determine what blood family member has ties to the White House or what person matching the partial hit was present at the White House that weekend.' 

But the Secret Service has pushed back on the claims, saying the cocaine investigation was handled properly. 

'This is false,' spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi told DailyMail.com. 'The US Secret Service takes its investigative and protective responsibilities very seriously.'

'There are retention policies for criminal investigations and the Secret Service adhered to those requirements during this case,' he added.  

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, also revealed last month that he had to close a congressional investigation into the matter due to interference by the US Secret Service.

'I had to abandon the probe I led into the cocaine I found at the Biden White House because the Secret Service destroyed the little plastic bag that contained the cocaine a few days after it was discovered,' the Congressman wrote in his new book All the President's Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes that Made the Biden Family Rich.

'And the tapes in the White House - amazingly - did not show the particular location of the discovery.'