The White House stressed this Wednesday that the cocaine found this weekend in the building was detected in a busy area and stressed that neither the president, Joe Biden, nor his family were at their official residence.
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The presidential spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, indicated in her daily press conference that The investigation is in the hands of the Secret Service and he is confident that the investigations will come to fruition..
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“I want to make it very clear that it is a very busy area. It is the part where visitors go to the West Wing. I have nothing else. I am not going to speculate on who it was,” he said.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement released Tuesday that the White House complex was preemptively closed Sunday night after “an unknown item” was found inside a work area.
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Preliminary analysis confirmed that that substance turned out to be cocaine.
Jean-Pierre recalled that the White House offers “tours” and pointed out that there were visits last Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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I want to make it very clear that it is a very busy area. It is the part through which visitors pass to the West Wing. I have nothing else. I’m not going to speculate on who he was.
“What happened this weekend is being investigated. The Secret Service is in charge,” he added.
The spokeswoman did not want to specify the affected area and stressed that It can only facilitate that “it is a very busy area”.
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He did make it clear that White House staff are subject to rigorous guidelines that include drug testing, and said they will take whatever action is appropriate once the Secret Service’s findings are in.
Members of the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service found the substance while conducting routine surveillance rounds of the building and after the DC Fire Department ordered an evacuation the item was quickly determined to be non-hazardous, it was published Tuesday.
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