Karine Jean-Pierre: We’re Confident the Secret Service Will Determine Who Brought the Cocaine

Is there any reason why the Biden administration would not want the person who brought the cocaine into the White House to be prosecuted? Because on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn’t answer that question.

Q : Yeah, thank you.  If the Secret Service determines the — who brought the cocaine into the White House, does the White House support the prosecution of this individual?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I’m just not going to get into hypotheticals from here.  Let — let the Secret Service do their job.  It’s under their purview.  We are confident that they’ll get to the bottom of it.  I’m just not going to get ahead of this at this time.

Go ahead.

Q: So Secret Service officials are actually cautioning that they might not find the person involved because it is such a busy thoroughfare.  So if they don’t get to the bottom of it, as you’re saying, would the President be satisfied with, “Sir, this is a busy room, and we found some cocaine.  We don’t know who brought it”?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  So let’s see what the Secret Service says, right?  They’re — again, this is under investigation.  Don’t want to get into hypotheticals while the investigation is going — going — going on and is happening at this time.  Just not going to get ahead of it.

We can think of one person who is a frequent visitor to the White House, whose name does not appear in the White House visitor logs, and who was, at one point in the not-too-distant past was “smoking crack every 15 minutes” and living with a serious addiction to cocaine. Even if this particular figure did not bring the cocaine, it is not hard to imagine a scenario where a relapsing addict wanted someone else to bring him drugs.

And this is a person that the president would not want to see prosecuted.