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.
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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, told Fox News Digital that he has “given lectures at the White House” and published articles on the Hatch Act, but the bill “does not cover snorting cocaine.”
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“Odd that Bates pivots to the Hatch Act and doesn’t deny the question…” conservative communicator Steve Guest tweeted.
Conservative journalist Jerry Dunleavy quipped that Bates was referring to that “famous Hatch Act provision which doesn’t allow you to say White House cocaine doesn’t belong to the president or his son.”
Other users bore down on the White House over the dodge.
When asked for comment by Fox News Digital, Bates pointed to his gaggle answer that Trump’s comments were a direct “comment from a declared candidate.”
Bookies in Las Vegas — where the younger Biden sped to in his Porche in 2018 — have already started to get in on the action and have pointed to Hunter as the likely culprit behind the hard drugs found at the White House.
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Bovada, a Costa Rica-based sportsbook, is slightly more generous to Hunter. Their favorite at -400 odds is a “Tour Group Guest,” followed by Hunter at +200 odds. “Janitorial Staff” is behind Hunter at +1000, followed by “Secret Service Special Agent” at +2000.
Like the other sites, Bovada contains outlandish culprits, such as the fictional character Tony Montana from the 1983 movie “Scarface” at +50000 odds. President Trump is also included at +5000 odds.
