The White House castigated a reporter on Friday for asking if cocaine found in the building belonged to the Bidens.
Calling the question"irresponsible," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that the family was not in the building during the discovery."There has been some irresponsible reporting about the family, and so I've got to call that out here," Jean-Pierre said."The Biden family was not here. They were not here. They were at Camp David. They were not here Friday, they were not here Saturday, they were not here Sunday.
Speculation has run rampant since cocaine was discovered in the White House Sunday night, with multiple reports seeming to conflict over the location. Initial stories said it was found in the library, but administration officials later said the drugs were found in the West Wing, though they've never noted an exact location.
A reporter previously asked deputy press secretary Andrew Bates about the issue, noting that President Joe Biden's critics, including former President Donald Trump, have speculated that the bag belongs to Hunter Biden. Bates declined to answer, citing the Hatch Act. "The Situation Room is not in use and has not been in use for months, because it is currently under construction," he said."We are using an alternate Situation Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. So the only people coming in and going out of the Situation Room in this period have been workers who are getting it ready to go."
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