Nikki Haley: There’s a cocaine cover-up in the Biden White House
Byron York
NIKKI HALEY: THERE’S A COCAINE COVER-UP IN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was one of several 2024 hopefuls who took part in the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday. The event is one of the most important of the year for social conservatives in Iowa. Haley and other candidates were interviewed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Haley and Carlson discussed a lot of things — the 2020 election, homelessness, addiction, and other topics. But Haley’s most animated answer came during a discussion of whether President Joe Biden has been held accountable for his administration’s actions. Carlson specifically asked about accountability for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and Biden’s foreign policy in general, but Haley, a former United Nations ambassador in the Trump administration, used the question to go in a different direction.
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Perhaps Haley was trying to avoid the question, or perhaps she feels strongly about the topic, but in any event, Haley turned the discussion to the recent discovery of cocaine in the White House. In no uncertain terms, Haley accused the Biden White House of a cover-up to protect “either Hunter or someone very close to the president,” referring to the president’s son Hunter Biden, a recovering cocaine addict. Here is what Haley said:
“The Bidens aren’t being accountable on anything. I mean, you look at the cocaine that was just found in there. That’s a whole other issue. Let me tell you this. This is really important. Because I have been into that area of the White House. … Everything that they’re saying is that hundreds of people went through this area. 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. 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. So, for them to say they don’t know who this was — don’t tell me there are no cameras in there. There are absolutely cameras in there. So, I will tell you 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.
“But the problem I have is now your answer is, ‘Oh, this isn’t a big deal because, by the way, there was marijuana twice last year.’ Why didn’t you do anything about that? Like, who has time to go into the national security SCIF, open the locker, and put drugs inside? That’s a bigger problem because if you’ve got somebody doing cocaine deciding on national security, that’s what I’m worried about.”
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