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Experts baffled by White House invoking Hatch Act to dodge Hunter cocaine question: 'ridiculous'
Fox News ^ | 7/06/23 | Houston Keene

Posted on 07/06/2023 3:48:14 PM PDT by Libloather

Experts were baffled by the Biden administration invoking the Hatch Act when asked whether President Biden or his son owned the cocaine found at the White House.

The culprit behind the White House’s July snowstorm has yet to be found, and the Biden administration isn’t answering whether the president or Hunter Biden owned the Independence Day cocaine dominating the headlines this week.

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates was asked during a Thursday press gaggle whether the president can deny that he or his son owned the cocaine found at the White House – a charge leveled by former President Donald Trump.

Bates invoked the Hatch Act — legislation that prohibits federal employees from talking about or using federal resources for campaign purposes — to dodge the white question on former President Trump's claim that the Colombian bam-bam belonged to the president or his son.

"I don't have a response to that, because we have to be careful about the Hatch Act," Bates responded. "What I will say is that I have noticed there does seem to be some increasing frustration coming from that corner in general, and I think it is probably rooted in the contrast between their substantive policy records."

Bates then compared Biden's policy record to his predecessor's record.

Attorney Bradley P. Moss told Fox News Digital he is "candidly at a loss as to why Mr. Bates believes the Hatch Act is relevant with respect to addressing that question."

"I could envision other legitimate bases for declining to respond, such as respecting the integrity of the ongoing investigation, but references to the Hatch Act seem misplaced," Moss continued.

Former Bush administration ethics chief Richard Painter, who ran for Congress as a Democrat last cycle...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: andrewbates; bananarepublic; bidencrimefamily; bradleypmoss; cocaine; drugs; experts; hatch; hatchact; hunter; richardpainter; whitehousecocaine
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Experts. Ol' Hunter is surrounded 24/7 with Secret Service. How the heck did that notorious crackhead have some sleazeball coke dealer get passed them?
1 posted on 07/06/2023 3:48:14 PM PDT by Libloather
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2 posted on 07/06/2023 3:49:42 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: Libloather

At some point, when it’s total clown-world, you just gotta laugh.

The “Hatxh act.”..lol.


3 posted on 07/06/2023 3:51:17 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Libloather

“Experts. Ol’ Hunter is surrounded 24/7 with Secret Service. How the heck did that notorious crackhead have some sleazeball coke dealer get passed them?”


I suspect a SS member is his dealer. They can’t risk him getting a hold of fentanyl laced drugs and being found OD’d in the library. Only the best will do for Joe Biden’s son.


4 posted on 07/06/2023 3:53:29 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Libloather

The Secret Service protects Trump and all these other people. If there is coke or other garbage being done in the White House it is being talked about by the details to each other.

That goes both ways, if Trump was up to no good that would get around too.


5 posted on 07/06/2023 3:53:58 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: Libloather

The Just Us Department and The Secret Serve Us


6 posted on 07/06/2023 3:55:14 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Libloather

https://notthebee.com/article/cocaine-was-found-in-the-white-house-library-no-wait-it-was-a-visitors-area-no-wait-it-was-a-work-area-no-wait-it-was-a-storage-area-no-wait

“Sources say cocaine was found in the White House library, but actually it was a storage area, but ACTUALLY it was near where “THE VICE PRESIDENT’S VEHICLE IS PARKED””


Have they found a way to remove Kamala? “She is coked out and now heading to rehab and sadly must resign. Gavin Newsom has graciously agreed to serve out the remainder of the term”.


7 posted on 07/06/2023 3:55:45 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Libloather
Meanwhile just outside the Oval Office where Joey B. is meeting with Drug Cartel representatives about getting a piece of the action in drug trafficking and human trafficking, Hunter checks the merchandise:


8 posted on 07/06/2023 3:55:45 PM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: BradyLS

It’s sad to see what they have become.


9 posted on 07/06/2023 3:57:41 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Joe cannot cut Hunter loose. Hunter knows Joe’s bad deeds.


10 posted on 07/06/2023 3:58:44 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Libloather

Wait, he can’t answer cocaine question because of Hatch Act, but can attack President Trump?


11 posted on 07/06/2023 3:59:15 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Libloather

My friend with the chicken coop experienced the Hatch Act last weekend.

(You have to laugh at the unimaginable stupidity of the present administration, because otherwise you would be attempting to answer Hamlet’s question, of ‘Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them’. We know, but can’t say the answer.)


12 posted on 07/06/2023 4:00:20 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Libloather

It’s rumored the SS procured many honeys for JFK including Marilyn Monroe. Why can’t they procure other treats for those in the White Hut?


13 posted on 07/06/2023 4:00:35 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: CFW

Probably pharmaceutical coke. Could be obtained from doctor or dentist. Clean. No drug dealers involved. Off the books of course.


14 posted on 07/06/2023 4:03:15 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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"How the heck did that notorious crackhead have some sleazeball coke dealer get passed them?"

Drug delivered by disguised door dash driver.

15 posted on 07/06/2023 4:03:18 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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To: Libloather

They probably got it for him, as long as he let them join the party.


16 posted on 07/06/2023 4:03:32 PM PDT by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: Libloather

President Clinton apparently snuck out of the White House in the back of someone’s car covered by a blanket. There’s that option. The other possibility is the Secret Service turns a blind eye when certain people come to visit. That is probably the more likely possibility.

The Secret Service must HATE their jobs under this president. Imagine having to deal with slime every day. Imagine when they bring children in to have their hair sniffed. Apparently one Secret Service agent was reassigned when his girlfriend had to fend off Biden and the agent got angry with the president.


17 posted on 07/06/2023 4:03:39 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Libloather

Not the Babylon Bee?

More total WH standup funniness.

Where is the Meritless Garland? He can easily spew more hilarity about the Rule of Law, et. al.


18 posted on 07/06/2023 4:05:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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I dont know why the commie media is having such a hard time with this..IT WAS HUNTERS COCAINE OK GEEZ get a clue commies


19 posted on 07/06/2023 4:15:11 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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The Hatch Act makes perfect sense IF...

...someone was using the coke as a political campaign bribe!

Now, let's see, who was in the WH recently that might have accepted coke as a campaign contribution to let's say, get his father, who just happens to be President, to perform some political favor?

20 posted on 07/06/2023 4:16:35 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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