More Thoughts On The White House Baggie

Whatever the specifics of whose fingerprints or DNA might be on the baggie of cocaine discovered in the White House in summer 2023, as I noted yesterday, there's been a revival of interest in the case. I decided to go after the key questions not from the forensic evidence, which we may never learn, but from what we know about the nature of cocaine addiction. (I've never used it -- according to Wikipedia, the US cocaine boom started in the late 1970s, after I'd outgrown my undergraduate drug use in the 1960s).

As of July 7, 2023, I was already leaning in the direction that the baggie was Kamala's:

[Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino] made the point that "protectees", that is, the president, vice president, and members of their families, are escorted past all checkpoints by Secret Service special agents, in part because the agents carry firearms that wouldn't get past metal detectors. For others, the checkpoints include drug sniffing dogs.

But as Bongino suggests, the pool of likely suspects, assuming family members are the likeliest, expands beyond just Hunter. Vice president Harris and her husband can't be eliminated, and the vice president in particular has something of a cackling, party-girl persona.

. . . Others have suggested White House security insiders already know who brought the baggie in, just as both the US Navy and the Royal Navy knew what happened to the Titan submersible the moment it imploded. I'm leaning in that direction myself.

More than a year later, Bongino's post that I embedded yesterday reported

Whistleblower stated that promotions are now being handed out to agents with inside knowledge of the details of the investigation into the cocaine found at the White House. These promotions are believed to be in exchange for silence on the matter.

Whistleblower also states that that acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe is “under a lot of pressure” to “tie up loose ends” and to “destroy the cocaine evidence” before Trump gets back in office.

So this continues to confirm my theory that Secret Service protective details for both the First and Second Families have been fully aware of whose cocaine this was all along. But there are more implications here, as I noted on July 23, 2023:

[I]f 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.

In that post, I went on to refer to comments to Jesse Watters by Jordan Belfort, the former cocaine addict and "Wolf of Wall Street", that

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.

This would be consistent with the theory of the speaker in the video I linked yesterday (who seems to be talking to the same people who are talking to Bongino):

Now, a man told Bolden that the cocaine was brought into the White House by a Kamala Harris staffer. The speaker explains that media blamed Hunter Biden for the incident, but some insiders knew that the VP's staff was involved.

. . . So it was Harris who brought the cocaine? No, but the cocaine was brought in for Harris. The one from the staff brought it. Clearly, some high-rating staffer," he added.

Although Bongino says that only protectees themselves and their families bypass the normal searches that include drug-sniffing dogs, I wonder if certain close stafffers like the so-called "body man" or "body woman", who attend to the protectees' closest personal needs, might accompany the protectee in the envelope that bypasses the checks. So I'm leaning toward a combination of the Jordan Belfort and Dan Bongino theories, with the anonymous commentator's remarks thrown in: someone heavily addicted to cocaine can't just rely on a single baggie. And in the post I linked above, I asked why Hunter would need a drop -- he's got a stash in the family quarters where he can get to it any time.

On the other hand, a vice preaident who needs an ongoing supply to get through the day can't just pull it out in a meeting -- it needs to be stashed somewhere, in a spot where it might be discreetly picked up on the way to the restroom facilities, for instance. So all this seems at least consistent with the idea that it was Kamala's -- Hunter wouldn't be wasting his time in security council meetings, for instance, but Kamala might, while Hunter wouldn't need a drop in a more public area, but Kamala might.

Still, as the saying goes, two people can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead. I would guess that too many people already know whose cocaine that was in the baggie, and that info has reached Trump already. Strategic promotions aren't going to be much help at this point.