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White House Published July 7, 2023 3:58pm EDT

WATCH: Press secretary loses it

when asked if WH cocaine belonged
to Biden family: 'Incredibly
irresponsible'
The cocaine was found in the West Wing over the weekend

By Brandon Gillespie Fox News

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Press secretary loses it when asked if White House cocaine belonged to Biden family: 'Incredibly irresponsible'
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lost it when questioned by a reporter whether the cocaine found in the West Wing belonged to a member of
the Biden family.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lashed out at a reporter Friday who asked
whether the cocaine found in the West Wing last weekend belonged to a member of the
Biden family.

The exchange happened during the daily White House press briefing when New York Post
reporter Caitlin Doornbos asked if Jean-Pierre could "say once and for all whether or not
the cocaine belonged to the Biden family," and also asked why deputy press secretary
Andrew Bates dodged questions related to the cocaine by citing the Hatch Act a day
earlier.

"So – a couple of things there," Jean-Pierre began, appearing visibly uncomfortable. "He
mentioned the Hatch Act because the question was posed to him in – using Donald
Trump. And so he was trying to be very mindful."

WHITE HOUSE ALLIES DISMISS COCAINE DISCOVERY AS GOP ‘FODDER,’ ‘POLITICAL

BULL S--T’

The West Wing of the White House, March 22, 2019, in Washington. The White House campus was briefly evacuated
Sunday evening while President Joe Biden was at Camp David after a suspicious substance was discovered by U.S. Secret
Service in a common area of the West Wing, and a preliminary field test showed the substance was cocaine, two law
enforcement officials said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

She claimed the administration wasn't "avoiding the question," and that she had
"exhaustively" answered questions on the cocaine for days.

"You know, there has been some irresponsible reporting about the family. And so I've got
to call that out here. And I have been very clear. I was clear two days ago when talking
about this over and over again as I was being asked the question," Jean-Pierre said,
appearing increasingly angry.

"As you know, and media outlets reported this, 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. They were not even here Monday. They came back
on Tuesday. So to ask that question is actually incredibly irresponsible. And I'll just leave it

there," she added.

GOP CONGRESSWOMAN WANTS BIDEN, WHITE HOUSE STAFF TO TAKE DRUG TEST
AMID COCAINE CONTROVERSY

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House July 7, 2023 in
Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

House Republicans opened an investigation into the cocaine discovery on Monday, calling
on the head of the U.S. Secret Service to give Congress more information. House
Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., blasted the illicit discovery as a
"shameful" moment.

The situation has even attracted scrutiny from liberal network MSNBC, with one host
speculating that the cocaine didn't belong to just an "average" person since it was found
near the Situation Room in a secure location.

The White House in Washington, DC. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @brandon_cg.

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