CNN anchor Manu Raju asked Biden 2024 National Co-Chair Mitch Landrieu to respond to ex-President Donald Trump’s baseless accusation that President Joe Biden stole cocaine from the White House.
Trump, during a rally in Racine, Wisconsin, made several false claims, including a wild accusation implying Biden would perform well at the upcoming debate due to using cocaine allegedly missing from the White House:
TRUMP: He’s going to be so pumped up! He’s going to be pumped up! You know all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the White House?
(AUDIENCE LAUGHTER)
TRUMP: What happened?
Somebody didn’t pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of cocaine. I wonder who that could have been. I don’t know. Actually, I think it was Joe!
Trump’s description of the incident was inaccurate. A small amount of cocaine was found in an area accessible to visitors, and an investigation could not determine who left it.
During CNN’s Inside Politics, Raju played the clip for Landrieu and asked for his response to Trump.
MANU RAJU: I want you to listen to a claim that former President Trump has made a few times about President Biden ahead of the debate.
DONALD TRUMP: He’s going to be so pumped up. He’s going to be pumped up. You know, all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the White House? What happened? Who who left it? Somebody left it.
Somebody didn’t pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine. I wonder who that could have been. I don’t know, actually. I think it was Joe!
MANU RAJU: What do you say to the former president who keeps saying that on the campaign trail?
MITCH LANDRIEU: (LAUGHS) Don the Con? He’s going to he’s going to talk trash like that all the time, because that’s what he does.
The other day, you may remember, he was trying to question our president’s mental acuity, and he could not remember the name of his own doctor.
So tell President Trump, bring whatever he’s got. President Biden will be standing there ready for him. He beat him twice before. He’s going to beat him again.
