A Former Addict Solves My Puzzle Over The White House Cocaine

Last Thursday, I posted on the details we know about the baggie of coke that was found in a cubby outside the White House Situation Room, and I concluded that nothing really fit.

Former Secret Service agents are unanimous that nobody who isn't the president, vice president, or a member of their immediate families gets into the business areas of the White House without a search, which includes metal detectors and emptying of pockets, as well as drug sniffing dogs. In other words, it's highly unlikely that either an outsider or a staff member could bring cocaine in.

On the other hand, if the suspect is a protectee, which is to say Hunter himself, the mathematics of addiction say that someone like Hunter needs a lot more than a random baggie of cocaine to satisfy his habit. He needs near-industrial quantities of coke, and it just isn't worth his trouble to smuggle in a baggie at a time; the supply is too small and unreliable.

The Secret Service people say it's the protectees who are never searched, so logically, we would expect Hunter to bring his own drugs in anyhow. Why would he need a drop at all? That just doesn't make sense.

Jesse Watters interviewed Jordan Belfort, the so-called "Wolf of Wall Street" and a former cocaine addict, on his Fox News program this past Monday evening, and as an ex-addict, he was able to clarify the potential issues surrounding Hunter's situation, while making it clear that he was speculating, and Hunter has not been tried or convicted. The Fox segment is shown via a YouTube at the top of this post, while the text quotes are from the UK Daily Mail's account of the program.

'Obviously I don't know for sure, but here's my theory,' he said. 'The obvious person to point to is Hunter Biden.

'Why? Because of the action - what people aren't focusing on is why would someone take it out of their pocket and leave it somewhere?

'The answer is because, when you're in that mindset of an addict, you want to have little 'drop points' so you can kind of sneak in, take a quick hit, leave it there for safekeeping, and come back. So it was being stored somewhere.

'In other words, you could easily keep it in your pocket and get in and out without getting detected, so the person that put it there had to be there on a consistent basis to keep using it undetected.'

So the Dan Bongino theory that I quoted last week and found implausible was that someone was bringing the cocaine in a baggie at a time and leaving it in a drop for Hunter to pick up later. Mr Belfort's theory is that Hunter has already brought a much larger quantity in and is simply secreting small amounts of it around the White House for convenience, and this cubby is one of them. This resolves my doubt about the baggie as a reliable way to smuggle the drug in from outside, and it also addresses the problem that Hunter needs a much bigger supply than baggie-level over the course of a day.

Mr Belfort also addressed the issue of whether Hunter has turned his life around, kicked his habits, and is now clean and sober.

'People don't typically stop using the drug unless they've suffered massive consequences,' he told Watters.

And this guy hasn't suffered consequences for anything - whether it's not declaring taxes, whether it's going on the board of Burisma - like why was he there? - whether it's becoming a famous artist overnight and selling scribble-scrabble for like hundreds of thousands of pounds - no consequences there.

'So why would he have stopped using drugs, I wonder, when there's no consequences?'

But this brings me back to the question of what the Secret Service knows, and the degree to which they're looking the other way over Hunter's drug use. Consider that the cubby outside the Sit Room would be just one potential spot where an addict like Hunter or Mr Belfort might secrete small amounts of a drug as a stash of convenience. In that case, when the question comes up over which location the July 2 cocaine was found -- the library, the lobby cubby, or the Sit Room cubby -- the answer might well be all of them. That could in fact have been the source of the confusion after that story broke.

This also goes to a question that came to mind after I posted on Hunter's visit with Keven Morris yesterday. I assume the Secret Service escort waited in the black SUV in which they'd driven Hunter to his "meeting" to take him back to where he was staying afterward. But in that case, even if he hadn't been smoking weed from a bong himself, he'd have been reeking of it from just being in the same room with Morris. If they had no other sign of what Hunter was up to before this, they'd have a good idea then. But this is presumably a regular detail, they know their protectee, and their protectee is regularly vioating federal law; not just cocaine, but marijuana is still illegal federally. What are their instructions?

This actually brings me to my last question: for the past several months, although nobody knows for sure, it's been more or less assumed that Hunter has been living in the White House, where he can be kept on a shorter leash. With the Sit Room episode, people like Mr Belfort are credibly inferring that under those circumstances, Hunter has been stashing cocaine all over the residence and offices to support his habit. It may well be that Joe has been getting advice that this has become unsustainable, the risk of another such discovery that might be more provably tied to Hunter is too great, and it's time for him to leave.

The trouble is that as soon as he's left -- which might be what's led to him being found smoking weed with Kevin Morris in LA -- he's going to revert to even more risky behavior like what he was doing from 2015 to 2019. For Joe, this is basically just two bad options, either drugs in the White House, or something even worse outside of it. But my bet is that a year or so ago, Hunter's minders at the Malibu compound had been warning Joe that Hunter was basically getting out of control there, which is why he was brought into the White House.

Something more is likely to break, sooner rather than later. At minimum, Kevin Morris is not the kind of guy you want Hunter hanging around with. But that brings up another question: what's in it for Kevin Morris? Running around with Hunter, at least right now, is a get-out-of-jail-free card for anyone who does it. What does Kevin Morris need something like that for?