The Colombian president said it may be necessary to &#8220;get rid of&#8221; President Donald Trump as the United States escalates counternarcotics operations in the region.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro made the comment in an interview with Univision on Monday regarding the best possible outcome of negotiations with the Trump administration.
“Humanity has a first offramp, it is to choose to change Trump in various ways,” Petro told Univision’s Daniel Coronell.
“The easiest way may be through Trump himself. If not, get rid of Trump,” he said while snapping his fingers.
Trump has escalated a pressure campaign in recent weeks against Colombia over drug trafficking in the region, labeling Petro as an “illegal drug dealer” with “a fresh mouth toward America.”
Wes Tabor, who led the Drug Enforcement Administration’s office in Caracas in 2012, told The Daily Wire that Petro has slowly pulled away from having ties with the United States, while moving closer to the socialist regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro.
&#8220;His background is steeped in these freedom fighting, kind[s] of guerrilla warfare &#8230; socialism, Marxism, and things like that. And we have seen in the last year more aggressively coming out of Colombia, they are saying, &#8216;listen, we are going to side with Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela,&#8221; said Tabor.
&#8220;When we look historically, the relationship has been really good,&#8221; he added.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-takes-out-another-boat-in-caribbean-killing-four-suspected-narco-terrorists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump</a> administration has taken out several drug cartel vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, killing more than two dozen suspected narco traffickers.
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JUST IN: Colombia&#8217;s President Petro wraps his Univision interview by saying that if <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> won&#8217;t change, the solution is to &#8220;get rid of Trump&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/JzRYHGPIzX">pic.twitter.com/JzRYHGPIzX</a>
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/1980440840465182847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump recently pledged to cut aid to Colombia and impose new tariffs after Petro accused the United States of striking a fisherman rather than narcoterrorists.
“U.S. government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters,” Petro wrote on social media at the time, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/world/americas/trump-colombia-petro-aid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times.
Last week, Trump <a href="https://x.com/OrlvndoA/status/1978557056878514557" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> a plan to carry out covert CIA operations in Venezuela against Maduro, stating that he authorized enhanced action over the Latin American country&#8217;s role in criminal migrants crossing the Southern border and the trafficking of lethal drugs killing Americans.

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On Monday, Dan Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI, announced that the agency would further its investigation into cocaine being found in the Biden White House and the leak of the draft of the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court that overruled Roe v. Wade, and the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/january-5-pipe-bomb-investigation-new-footage-of-suspect-placing-bomb-at-dnc/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pipe bombs</a> that were left near the DNC and RNC offices in Washington, D.C., in on January 2021.
On July 2, 2023, the Secret Service discovered powder cocaine in a vestibule cubby at the White House where visitors store mobile phones. President Biden and his family were at Camp David at the time. The Secret Service concluded its investigation ten days later.
“There was no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area,” the FBI <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos-show-cocaine-found-inside-white-house-complex/story?id=104874539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> at the time. “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. At this time, the Secret Service&#8217;s investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence.”
In May 2022, someone leaked a draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Supreme Court denounced the leak as “a grave assault on the judicial process.” Gail Curley, the court official assigned with investigating the incident, <a href="//29439C2B-4E2B-4FE5-8C88-C31A6D9B9364/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “If a Court employee disclosed the draft opinion, that person brazenly violated a system that was built fundamentally on trust with limited safeguards to regulate and constrain access to very sensitive information.”
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“Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” Bongino wrote on X. “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.”
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An Alabama drug dealer who was freed from prison after being granted clemency by former President Joe Biden was arrested again this week. 
Willie Frank Peterson, 52, was <a href="https://www.dothanpd.org/2025/03/18/mugshots-of-the-day-03-17-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> on Monday for alleged drug possession and having a gun. He was arrested in Dothan, a city of about 70,000 people in Southeast Alabama. Peterson faces two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, three counts of illegally being in possession of a gun, and possession of drug paraphernalia. 
Peterson was previously freed from prison in January after Biden <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-pamd-1_14-cr-00070/pdf/USCOURTS-pamd-1_14-cr-00070-23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted clemency</a> to thousands of people convicted on drug charges. 
In March 2023, Peterson <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdal/pr/dothan-man-sentenced-federal-tax-evasion-mail-fraud-and-drug-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled guilty</a> to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and he was later <a href="https://www.wtvy.com/2025/03/18/dothan-man-arrested-weeks-after-biden-commuted-his-sentence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to 75 months in prison. Biden committed his sentence to 20 months and he was no longer in Bureau of Prison custody as of January 21, 2025. 
According to the Justice Department, Peterson sold cocaine to a man named Kenneth Cherden Glasgow in 2018 and 2019. Glasgow, the half-brother of leftist activist Al Sharpton, was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison for tax evasion, mail fraud, and drug charges. 
Peterson’s clemency came as part of Biden’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-commutes-sentences-of-another-2500-drug-offenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> to commute the sentences of more than 2,500 drug offenders in his final days in office. 
Biden said that those whose sentences were commuted were “non-violent” offenders who had been given “disproportionately long sentences.” 
“Today, I am commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses who are serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice,” Biden said at the time. “With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history.”
Biden said the individuals had “received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine” and “outdated sentencing enhancements for drug crimes.”
That action came after Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-announces-mass-commutations-after-criticism-over-hunter-pardon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commuted</a> the sentences of 1,500 people, issued 39 pardons for individuals convicted of non-violent crimes, and gave a mass pardon for people convicted of marijuana possession.

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On July 2, 2023, a member of the Secret Service discovered a bag of cocaine in the White House.
According to a new report from <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/05/former_secret_service_chief_wanted_to_destroy_cocaine_evidence_151392.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Real Clear Politics</a>, former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who was appointed to her position in 2022 partly because of her close relationship with First Lady Jill Biden, wanted to destroy the evidence. When the member of the Secret Service found the evidence, he reportedly wanted to implement a particular crime-scene investigative protocol, but was then removed from the case.
“The <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/secret-service-brief-house-committee-cocaine-found-white/story?id=101183599" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-testid="prism-linkbase">Secret Service closed its investigation</a> on July 12 after it said it could not identify a suspect,” ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos-show-cocaine-found-inside-white-house-complex/story?id=104874539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The Secret Service released a statement saying:
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There was no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area. 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. At this time, the Secret Service&#8217;s investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence.
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At the time the bag was found, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, who had a history of cocaine abuse, was staying at the White House, Real Clear Politics, which spoke with “three sources in the Secret Service community,” stated.
Cheatle had served 27 years in the Secret Service, during which she was on Jill Biden’s detail while Joe Biden was vice-president, before serving three years as senior director of global security at PepsiCo. Biden then appointed her Secret Service chief.
Jill Biden’s top aide Anthony Bernal urged Cheatle’s appointment as head of the Secret Service, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/secret-service-director-kim-cheatle-landed-job-after-push-by-jill-bidens-office-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding that an insider revealed, “Cheatle served on Dr. Biden’s second lady detail and Anthony pushed for her. Anthony has no national security or law enforcement experience. He should have no influence over the selection of the USSS director.”
Cheatle resigned last month after she was grilled by Congress following the Secret Service&#8217;s failure to stop a would-be assassin before he fired eight shots at former President Donald Trump, hitting him once in his right ear, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, testified that between 2015 and 2019, “she often searched his vehicle for crack cocaine because he would let their daughters use his car. She said she found drugs or drug paraphernalia at least a dozen times,” Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/hunter-bidens-trial-drug-abuse-00161806" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In July 2023, former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/secret-service-covering-up-wh-cocaine-for-hunter-biden-nikki-haley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">propounded,</a> “For them to say they don’t know who this was … don’t tell me there’s no cameras in there. There are absolutely cameras in there. I strongly believe this is a coverup for either Hunter, or someone very close to the president, and they don’t want to say who it is.”

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More than a dozen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sharks">sharks</a> living off the coast of Brazil tested positive for cocaine, researchers shared in a report on Tuesday.
A total of 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks were tested by scientists who discovered the cocaine in both the muscle tissue and liver of the sharks, according to researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/science/cocaine-sharks-brazil-scli-intl-scn/index.html">CNN</a> reported.
The sharks were chosen both because of their small size and that they live in the coastal waters that are in close proximity to a significant contaminant discharge for their entire life cycle, according to the report. It is the first time the drug has ever been detected in free range sharks, the outlet noted.
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The study found that the cocaine levels in the 13 sharks had a concentration as much as 100 times higher than previously reported for other aquatic creatures, the <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/sharks-off-brazil-coast-test-positive-for-cocaine-13183543?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter">study found</a>.
And the cocaine concentration in muscle tissue was higher in female sharks than in their male counterparts. 
Researchers believe the rise in cocaine consumption around the world is most likely the cause, as around 22% of users of the drug users live in South America, with Brazil the second largest consumer market in the area, the paper found.
The report found that the increased consumption and poor sewage treatment infrastructure was the likely cause for the increased cocaine in the sea, rather than it being due to cocaine being dumped by traffickers, as previously suggested, study co-author Enrico Mendes Saggioro, an ecotoxicologist at the foundation, told CNN.
“We don’t usually see many bales of coke dumped or lost at sea here, unlike what is reported in Mexico and Florida,” Mendes Saggioro said, noting that the sea gets polluted by cocaine due to illegal laboratories producing the drug and along with the sewage discharges from humans users.
It is unclear at this point what kind of damage the cocaine may have done to the shark&#8217;s health, as studies have yet to be done. However, previous research on how the drug affects fish and mussels showed that it was harmful.
“It is probable, although not yet proven that exposure would have deleterious physiological effects on the sharks,” a joint statement from Mendes Saggioro and study co-author Rachel Ann Hauser Davis from the foundation, read.
Marine eco-toxicologist Sara Novais, from the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre of the Polytechnic University of Leiria, called the findings &#8220;very important and potentially worrying,” <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-sharks-found-waters-brazil">Science magazine</a> noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-film-crew-described-being-attacked-by-sharks-in-hawaii-like-something-out-of-jaws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Netflix Film Crew Described Being Attacked By Sharks In Hawaii: ‘Like Something Out Of Jaws’</a>

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Former President Donald Trump said in an interview on Thursday that President Joe Biden should be drug tested before the two compete in presidential debates this fall.
Trump, who made the remarks during a radio interview with conservative host Hugh Hewitt, said he hopes Biden takes part in the debates before suggesting the president might be a cocaine user.
&#8220;I think what happened is that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on there, because I watched this State of the Union, and he was all jacked up at the beginning,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;By the end, he was fading fast. There’s something going on there. I want to debate. And I think debates, with him, at least, should be drug tested. I want a drug test.&#8221;
The remarks come after the Secret Service discovered cocaine in the White House last July in the lobby area of the West Executive Avenue entrance.
When asked if he was suggesting that Biden was using cocaine, Trump responded: &#8220;I don’t know what he’s using, but that was not, hey, he was higher than a kite.&#8221;
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&#8220;And by the way, it was the worst, it was the worst address I’ve ever seen, the State of the Nation,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;I’ll tell you, State of the Union, that’s not State of the Union, because he doesn’t represent us properly. That, I can tell you. But he’s obviously, he’s being helped in some way, because most of the time, he looks like he’s falling asleep. And all of a sudden, he walked up there and did a poor job. But he was all jacked up.&#8221;
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Trump says Biden should be drug tested before the presidential debates because he might be using cocaine:
&#8220;I think what happened is you know that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on… <a href="https://t.co/SrNyZKLfEg">pic.twitter.com/SrNyZKLfEg</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1775930758244233281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2024</a></blockquote>

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On January 27, 2017, the tiny town of Seabeck, Washington, was rocked by the murders of Christale Careaga, her son Johnathon Higgins from a previous relationship, and her stepson Hunter Schaap. Two days later, her husband, Johnny Careaga, was found dead in his burnt-out Ford F-150 pickup truck.
On the night of the murders, the family had some friends over at their house. At some point, Careaga received a phone call and left to meet someone, Gig Harbor Now <a href="https://www.gigharbornow.org/news/police-fire/gig-harbor-man-among-trio-charged-in-quadruple-murder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Surveillance footage taken around 9 p.m. at Camp Union Grocery showed Careaga’s vehicle parking next to another vehicle.
 Careaga then drove back home but never entered the house. One of the guests would later tell police that they went out to the garage to check on Careaga and heard three men talking loudly. The guests left the home when Christale went to check the garage herself, the Kitsap Sun <a href="https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2022/06/07/detectives-investigation-links-3-men-murders-careaga-family/7538388001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
At 11:28 p.m., 16-year-old Hunter Schaap called 911 and pleaded for help, saying “Help! I’m dying … My family is dead! Come now!” The line went dead after 38 seconds, Gig Harbor reported.
When deputies arrived at the residence, it was engulfed in flames. Once the fire was put out, deputies discovered the bodies of 37-year-old Christale, Hunter, and 16-year-old Johnathon. The three had been shot in the head before the fire was set. 
It appeared that Christale had been shot in the head when she went into the garage. Johnathon was shot when he left his room to check out the noises. Hunter had reportedly surprised the killers, coming home with a pizza. He was shot twice but managed to live long enough to call 911 before he was shot a third time.
&#8220;Firefighters battled the fire,&#8221; Kitsap County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy Scott Wilson <a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/3-found-dead-in-seabeck-home-police-investigating-as-homicide/488746152/">told</a> KIRO 7 several days after the murders. &#8220;Got it secured. Got it put out. And in their course of doing that, they came across the remains of three people inside the residence, two males and a female.&#8221;
The Kitsap County Fire Marshal’s Office later said that the alleged killers put fire-starting logs doused with accelerant on beds in the house and broke out the windows so oxygen would fan the flames, Gig Harbor Now reported.
While his family was dead,  Careaga and his truck were missing. The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office requested the public’s help in finding Careaga, but two days later, his remains were found inside of his truck, which had been set on fire. He was found on an abandoned remote tree farm in Belfair, Washington, KATU 2 <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/3-suspects-arrested-in-2017-quadruple-murder-of-kitsap-county-clan">reported</a>. 
David Zalenski, the Careaga’s neighbor for 12 years, told KIRO 7 that the family was “just so nice,” adding, “Geez, nice people don&#8217;t get killed like that.&#8221;
When police searched the Careaga home, they found $40,000 in cash in a safe and another $7,000 in a dresser. Another $200,000 was believed to be hidden under the house – but it was missing. While the Careagas owned Christale’s Java Hut and Juanito’s Taco Shop, the discovery of the cash was surprising.
Authorities also discovered marijuana growing at the residence, but it turned out to be authorized under state medical marijuana laws. Law enforcement then learned that Careaga was bringing a kilo of cocaine up from California to Washington every few months to sell in Kitsap County, Gig Harbor reported. One of his regular customers was Robert Watson, the vice president of the Bremerton chapter of the Bandidos motorcycle club. The Bandidos, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-vcrs/gallery/outlaw-motorcycle-gangs-omgs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Justice Department</a>, is labeled an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, meaning it’s an organization “whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprises.” They’re considered a “serious national domestic threat” and are linked to drug-trafficking.
Careaga allegedly sold the cocaine to Watson through a close friend, who eventually decided to stop selling the drug, leaving Careaga to sell to Watson directly. After the direct communication began, Watson allegedly followed Careaga down to California while obtaining the cocaine, leading to a verbal argument between the men.
The two men allegedly continued to clash until the day of the murders. Detectives said that at around 4:00 a.m. on the night of the murders, Watson showed up at the home of another Bandido member. He had no pants and asked the member to borrow a pair. Watson allegedly told the fellow member he had been in a fight with a “homeless black man” and washed his hands. Watson then left the home in a car, even though the Bandido member thought he had arrived on foot, the Kitsap Sun reported.
Later in the day, Watson called 911 claiming his truck had been broken into “several days earlier” and that a loaded Glock handgun and a loaded magazine had been stolen. Following the murders, Watson stopped showing up for his job at Kitsap County Public Works, and was fired in September 2017.
That year, some $303,000 was deposited into Watson’s bank accounts, with &#8220;numerous cash deposits that the source could not be identified,&#8221; according to court records reviewed by the Sun.
A neighbor told police that on the night of the murders, he thought he heard gunshot sounds, and when he was outside moving his truck, he saw Careaga’s truck drive away “at a high rate of speed,” according to court records. This neighbor identified the driver not as Johnny Careaga, but as Danie Kelly, a former friend of Careaga’s who served as the best man at Careaga’s first wedding. But the two had a falling out when Careaga accused Kelly of stealing from him. The relationship deteriorated so much that detectives wrote, &#8220;Danie and John hated each other such that Danie would have no business being at John&#8217;s house or driving his truck.”
Watson allegedly took Kelly “under his wing” within the Bandidos,  which meant that Kelly &#8220;would have to do anything Robert asked of him,&#8221; detectives wrote, according to the Sun.
Less than a week after the murders, a vehicle belonging to Robert Watson’s younger brother Johnny J. Watson was found “stripped and dumped in the Puyallup River.” The car appears to be the one seen in surveillance footage from a grocery store parking lot the night of the murders.
&#8220;The radio, tires, airbags, and other items generally stolen were still present in the Mercedes, but porous surfaces such as carpeting, seats, headlights, seatbelts, etc., were removed,&#8221; detectives wrote in court documents.
The vehicle had no plates and was never reported stolen. The Watsons would later pay $1,500 to get the vehicle back, according to detectives.
Detectives used cell phone tracking data to follow Careaga, the Watsons, and Kelly throughout the night of the murders. Kelly had purchased a burner phone and used it exclusively to communicate with Careaga for the 10 days prior to the murder, but not after. These cell phone records, as well as interviews and other evidence, were used to arrest both Robert and Johnny Watson, and Kelly, as suspects in the murders.
“The motive for the crime is complicated — it’s involving drugs, money, there’s definitely some personality conflicts,” Kitsap County Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Lissa Gundrum said at a news conference in June 2022, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/washington-seattle-arrests-5293f03decf94e08507ddb51a47243ed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Associated Press</a>.
The three men were held on $20 million bail each, KATU 2 <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/3-suspects-arrested-in-2017-quadruple-murder-of-kitsap-county-clan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. They pleaded not guilty, and in July, six felony charges were dropped from each suspect, leaving each charged with 10 felonies. The decision came after attorneys for the suspects argued that secondary charges had been filed after certain statute of limitations kicked in, Fox 13 <a href="https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/secondary-charges-dropped-for-3-suspects-in-careaga-family-quadruple-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The trial began in late November, with jurors listening to Hunter’s harrowing 911 call. In opening statements, Robert Watson’s attorney Matthew McGowan told jurors that his client and Johnny were acquaintances but that evidence would show Robert was not involved in the murders, the Sun <a href="https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/blogs/crime-and-justice/2023/12/05/careaga-family-murder-trial-witness-testimony-opening-statements/71813373007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“We do believe that once you see all the evidence, you’ll be convinced of his innocence,” McGowan said, according to the outlet. “As he stands before you here this morning, Robert Watson is an innocent man.”
McGowan pointed to DNA and other physical evidence that did not link to his client. He also said that the large money transactions could be explained through legitimate means. He also disputed cell phone evidence claiming Robert was at the scene of the crime.
“Cell phone tower data is not detailed enough to pinpoint the location of a specific phone other than within the entire coverage area,” he said. “This is really important, because when you hear from some witnesses that the TracFone was at Robert Watson’s house, or alternately in Robert Watson’s neighborhood, that’s not the end of the story.”
Johnny Watson’s attorney, Craig Kibbe, in his opening statements, said there was little evidence to connect his client to the crime.
“If this trial, over the next however many weeks we’re going to be here, was a two-hour movie, Johnny Watson would be on screen for maybe a minute or two in the background, might not even have a speaking part,” Kibbe said. “That’s because he’s a very minor character in this case.”
He also noted that “it will be a mystery” as to how Johnny’s car ended up in the Puyallup River.
“Almost none of the evidence in this case relates to my client,” Kibbe added. “Most of the witnesses in the case are not even going to mention Johnny Watson’s name, but yet he’s here charged with the exact same offenses as everyone else.”

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Photos were released on Monday of the cocaine that officials discovered over the summer that prompted an evacuation of the facility.
The photos, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12744675/First-photos-reveal-COCAINE-White-House-Images.html">published</a> by the Daily Mail, show a small baggie containing a white powdery substance sitting inside a cubby hole where people can store personal belongings near the White House&#8217;s West Executive entrance.
Officials confirmed the substance as cocaine during <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-discovers-cocaine-inside-white-house-report">preliminary</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-confirms-cocaine-found-in-white-house-west-wing">subsequent</a> testing.
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Photos of the cocaine found in the Biden White House have finally surfaced. <a href="https://t.co/yMYEhAI84y">https://t.co/yMYEhAI84y</a> <a href="https://t.co/lHRrPbmAiA">pic.twitter.com/lHRrPbmAiA</a>
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The cocaine was found in phone storage cubbie 50 near the White House&#39;s West Executive entrance. <a href="https://t.co/uuml5EJeTC">pic.twitter.com/uuml5EJeTC</a>
&mdash; Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarMachineRR/status/1724172201992015908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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President Joe Biden and his family, including <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2021/03/31/hunter-biden-memoir-he-opens-up-hallie-biden-crack-addiction/4826035001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> cocaine-addict Hunter Biden, who was kicked out of the military for <a href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/military/2014/10/17/ap-vps-son-hunter-biden-out-navy-due-failed-drug-test/15786435007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testing positive</a> for cocaine, were <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2021/03/31/hunter-biden-memoir-he-opens-up-hallie-biden-crack-addiction/4826035001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> at Camp David when the drugs were found.
The FBI and Secret Service conducted an investigation into the owner of the substance but allegedly shut down the investigation due to a &#8220;lack of evidence&#8221; after narrowing down a list of potential suspects to 500 people, the report <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12744675/First-photos-reveal-COCAINE-White-House-Images.html">said</a>.
It was not clear whether the numbered cubby holes, which have keys, were assigned to specific personnel, the report said. Investigators alleged that there were no fingerprints on the plastic baggie.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan suggested in the days after the cocaine was found that a construction worker could have brought in the substance since the nearby Situation Room was reportedly being renovated.
&#8220;I would make a point about the Situation Room because I think there&#8217;s been a lot questionable reporting on this,&#8221;&#8216; he claimed. &#8220;The Situation Room is not in use and has not been in use for months because it is currently under construction.&#8221;
&#8220;We are using an alternative Situation Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, so the only people coming in and going out of the Sit Room in this period have been workers who are getting it ready to go,&#8221; he claimed.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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Photos Released Of Cocaine Discovered At White House

People have been shocked to see the extent that the Department of Justice and the media went to for Hunter Biden and his laptop. The cover up was obviously real; the amount of evidence throughout the 2020 election was ridiculous. Yet even when photos of Hunter smoking crack surfaced, the media claimed they were Russian propaganda. How utterly delusional to think the Russians have any interest in creating propaganda about Hunter Biden.
Ultimately, the media got what they wanted: installing Joe Biden as president. But now, people are realizing the Department of Justice is complicit. Former members of the CIA are complicit. People in the intelligence community claimed Hunter’s laptop was tied in with Russian propaganda efforts, but they knew that the contents of the laptop were true. Even judges have been implicated. Finally, people are asking, just how corrupt is the system?
The general consensus is usually that “deep state” is just a trendy phrase conspiracy theorists throw around. But in actuality, this is exactly what deep state is. It’s when people who have so much power make stories virtually disappear overnight — stories that should actually be everywhere. It’s what gets you to stop talking about something that we should be talking about for months and, instead, shifts your focus to something else entirely, just like what happened with Hunter Biden’s laptop.
One such story that disappeared without a trace was the one involving all the allegations that Barack Obama is gay — something I’ve known about him for years. Tucker Carlson spoke on camera about these claims, and for most people, this was all new information. They were shocked because there had been a media concerted effort to bury those stories when Obama was running for president of the United States. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jls5Bz8pEtc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In his video,</a> Tucker explains that a man named Larry Sinclair came forward, signed an affidavit, took a lie detector test (the results have been <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2008/06/obama-accuser-has-long-rap-sheet-011164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disputed</a>), and professed to having smoked crack and had sex with Obama. Yet no one reported on this. Why? Because the Obama campaign said that anyone who does will be banned from access to the Obama campaign.
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This was confirmed when a Secret Service agent who worked for Obama and his family told me that when Obama was in office, part of the Secret Service’s job was sneaking young men into the White House. Furthermore, it wasn’t a secret that he was sleeping with these young men. The press never found out, which happens occasionally. Sometimes, you can actually drop off crack cocaine at the White House, and they don’t know who did it. When they need to be, the government can be super hush hush, and the media will help bury those facts. So the president of the United States was allegedly having illicit affairs and the media covered it up. That is a big cover up.
Because of this, most people had never even heard of Larry Sinclair until Carlson mentioned him. They had never heard about his testimony — and if they did, it was dismissed. Sinclair was just problematized. It is true that Sinclair has problems — financial, forgery, fraud, etc. — but he was crystal clear in his testimony at the National Press Club news conference in Washington on June 18, 2008, that he engaged in a homosexual affair with Obama in Chicago. At this conference, exactly four minutes in, Sinclair give a detailed recount of his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QK0eGp3N6A">“Obama incident”</a>, the affair with Obama.
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It is a remarkably detailed account, and it seems like the journalists in the room at that news conference would have fact checked those details. They could have easily asked for credit card receipts, questioned then-Senator Obama where he was on that evening, and asked him to counter the claims. Of course, this video was buried, just like the letter Obama’s ex-girlfriend came forward with, which detailed the gay fantasies he had about men while also proclaiming he would be publicly heterosexual. This is not a real secret because it has never been a real secret. Yet it has been kept from the general public.
To be clear, it doesn’t really affect my day-to-day life if Obama is a flaming homo. But as a country, we should ask the question: Why did the media cover this up? They did not cover it up because they were concerned America wouldn’t vote for a gay man in 2008. The real reason they covered it is that the media is controlled by the CIA. The CIA has placed agents all within the media to control the way we think, and that has been going on for decades — since JFK was assassinated. That is when they put Operation Mockingbird into place.
Perhaps the CIA thought they needed journalists to repeat what they wanted them to say following JFK’s death. But the bigger reason why they latch onto complicated characters like Joe and Hunter Biden and Barack Obama is because they know their dirt. They know that Obama likes crack and young men, and having that kind of information gives them control. So they find someone who presents well enough, gives them a division of power, and installs a puppet presidency. Obama is going to do exactly what they want — because of what they have on him. Look at what they know.
This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s common sense. Obviously.
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The Media’s Cover-Up Of Barack Obama’s Alleged Illicit Gay Affairs

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Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> expressed confidence in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secret Service</a> after the agency announced last week that no suspects were identified in the investigation into who brought cocaine into the White House earlier this month. 
Jean-Pierre did not seem concerned when asked about the probe coming up empty after previously saying she was confident the Secret Service would “get to the bottom of it.” 
“Look, we believe that the Secret Service did a thorough investigation. I’m certainly not going to opine on the investigation,” she <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2023/07/17/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-nsc-coordinator-for-strategic-communications-john-kirby-18/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Of course we’re going to have confidence that they’re going to do their jobs and do everything that they can to get to the bottom of this.”
“But as you’ve just stated, we’ve been briefed on the outcome.  And in their public statement, as well as the Secret Service have said there is a … there [were] hundreds of visitors that traveled through this area where the cocaine was found across that weekend,” she continued. 
Last week, the Secret Service <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-closes-investigation-into-cocaine-found-at-white-house-with-no-suspects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed its investigation</a> after it said that no usable fingerprints or DNA were found on the bag of cocaine. 
“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 agency said in a statement. 
No interviews with any of the possible culprits were conducted, according to Secret Service spokesman Anthony Gugliemi, who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/secret-service-closed-investigation-cocaine-white-house-no-interviews-rcna93938" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> reaching out to all 500 people determined to be in the area would likely be a waste of resources.
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The cocaine was reportedly found in a West Wing cubby. One former Secret Service agent said it should be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-secret-service-agents-detail-security-implications-of-cocaine-discovery-at-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">easy to narrow down</a> when the cocaine was left in that location. 
“Based on where the cocaine was found, I’m pretty confident that it was not there for a long period of time, based on the security measures, the sweeps of that area. So that gives the Secret Service some type of a time frame,” former agent Charles Marino told The Daily Wire. 
Many lawmakers were unhappy with the result of the investigation, alleging that the agency was not honest with the American people. 
“Another coverup,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said after a briefing with the Secret Service. “You know, it’s the most secure building in the entire world. Nobody, not even the press, goes in there without them knowing.”
The discovery prompted widespread speculation that the cocaine could have belonged to Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s troubled son, who has battled drug addiction in the past and had recently been seen at the White House.

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said during an interview over the weekend that the U.S. Secret Service does not appear to have asked President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter, about the cocaine that was found in the White Houses earlier this month.
Cotton made the remarks during an interview with Shannon Bream on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; when asked about what the latest developments in the case are.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got no answers,&#8221; Cotton said in response to the letter that he sent to the Secret Service. &#8220;That&#8217;s not surprising. The Secret Service is a troubled agency as it&#8217;s long had challenges. It probably needs new leadership.&#8221;
&#8220;I take this very seriously. I mean, what if this was anthrax?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This is supposed to be the most secure building in the world. Yet the Secret Service closed down this investigation after just a few days. It&#8217;s my understanding, they barely conducted in any interviews. I don&#8217;t think they interviewed the president&#8217;s son, who&#8217;s a known cocaine addict.&#8221;
&#8220;This is like if Hamburglar lived in the White House, all the hamburgers disappeared, and they said they didn&#8217;t have any suspects or know one they could question,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They know who went through those doors, so they can interview them as well. If the president were really serious about it, he could demand everybody that goes through those doors, submit to a drug test. You can use hair testing samples and identify anyone who&#8217;s used cocaine in the last few months. Those are the steps you would take if you took this seriously. This just seems like another Biden cover up well.&#8221;
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTomCotton</a> reacts to the Secret Service ending probe of White House cocaine discovery with no suspect. Tune in! <a href="https://t.co/Siqs1qdOP4">pic.twitter.com/Siqs1qdOP4</a>
&mdash; Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1680595594882998272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Senator Cotton: Secret Service Did Not Ask Hunter Biden About Cocaine Found In WH

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The investigation into the origin of the cocaine found in the White House was “the best” the Secret Service could do, despite not identifying a suspect, a top Biden administration official says. 
John Kirby, the coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council, <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1680591729710252033" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday” that at the end of the probe, there wasn’t enough “forensic evidence” to pinpoint the perpetrator. On July 2, a bag of cocaine was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-confirms-cocaine-found-in-white-house-west-wing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> in a lobby of the West Wing. 
&#8220;I can&#8217;t really speak to the investigation that was done by the Secret Service,” Kirby said when Bream asked him, “What if it was something more dangerous?” 
“They did the best they could to track down how it got there and who it might have belonged to and they just were not able to come up with any forensic evidence that proves it,” Kirby added.
Kirby went on to explain that the cocaine was discovered in a “visitors lobby area,” which is “highly trafficked.” He said the administration has taken the discovery &#8220;seriously&#8221; and that the administration would take a look at how it could have gotten into the White House. 
“If there’s things we can do to prevent that in the future, we certainly will do that,” Kirby said. “Nobody’s happy about this.” 
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Top Biden spokesman John Kirby shrugs off the cocaine scandal inside the Biden White House:
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On Thursday, the Secret Service <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-closes-investigation-into-cocaine-found-at-white-house-with-no-suspects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concluded</a> its investigation into the source of the cocaine, saying that no fingerprints or DNA were discovered on the bag. The federal agency also reportedly reviewed video surveillance and visitor logs, but those attempts came up empty. 
Some initially suspected that Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, could be behind the scandal, as he had appeared at the White House before the announcement of the discovery and has previously battled drug addiction, including cocaine use. A source, however, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/secret-service-briefs-house-oversight-members-cocaine-found-white-hous-rcna94045" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC that the “leading theory” is that the substance was left by a visitor on a tour that weekend. 
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Some Republicans have accused the White House of initiating a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-closes-investigation-into-cocaine-found-at-white-house-with-no-suspects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coverup</a>” to protect the president. 
“Just left the most ridiculous meeting of all time with the Secret Service on the cocaine that was found in the White House,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said in a video he recorded after a briefing on the investigation. “It turns out – they don’t know who did it. The investigation is going to be over at the end of the week, and they’re not going to find out who did it. And that’s basically it.”
“Another coverup,&#8221; Burchett continued. “You know, it’s the most secure building in the entire world. Nobody, not even the press, goes in there without them knowing.”
Even former President Donald Trump, the current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4096434-trump-criticizes-end-of-white-house-cocaine-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weighed in</a> on the controversy, calling it a “two tier level of justice.” 
“Despite all of the cameras pointing directly at the ‘scene of the crime,’ and the greatest forensics anywhere in the World, they just can’t figure it out? They know the answer, and so does everyone else!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110708252212736099" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to Truth Social.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Holds Daily Briefing with John Kirby

Kirby Says Investigators ‘Did The Best They Could’ To Track Down White House Cocaine Suspect

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