The FBI has decided to reopen the investigation into the cocaine found at the White House in July 2023 when Joe Biden was president and Hunter Biden was a frequent visitor there, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino posted on X Monday.

The cocaine was found in a cubby near the entrance to the West Wing two days after Hunter Biden was there and left with the family for the July 4th weekend, and its source was never discovered.

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The scandal is one of three unsolved investigations the bureau plans to take another look at.

The announcement

Speaking of FBI Director Kash Patel, Bongino said, "We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases. These cases are the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the prior administration’s White House, and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case. I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI."

After a cursory Secret Service investigation lasting less than two weeks, the case of the White House cocaine was closed when surveillance footage apparently did not show who the cocaine belonged to.

"Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered," the Secret Service said at the time.

When some in the media and the public speculated that the cocaine belonged to recovering drug addict Hunter Biden, the White House called those speculations "irresponsible."

"To ask that question is actually incredibly irresponsible," then-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on July 7th.

But notice--she did not deny the allegations. There are no denials on record; it was simply allowed to fade away.

Trump's opinion

President Donald Trump said in March that he believes the cocaine was either Hunter or Joe Biden's.

"So … who actually left the cocaine in the White House?" The Spectator's Ben Domenech asked Trump in an interview.

"Well, either Joe or Hunter," Trump responded. "Could be Joe, too."

Trump based his assumption on the finding that any fingerprints that would have been left on the locker were wiped off.