‘Blowing it’: Ron DeSantis rips Joe Biden for discovery of cocaine in the White House

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DeSantis joked that 'slime' and 'marker' were the only things to be found on the floor of the Governor's Mansion.

Florida’s Governor waded into a controversy about cocaine apparently being found on the White House floor, claiming it was the latest example of the Joe Biden administration “blowing it.”

During an episode of a Tomi Lahren podcast, Ron DeSantis ripped the administration for being poor stewards of the public space amid the illicit drug allegations.

“I have long believed, I think a lot of us have believed, that the Biden administration has been blowing it on a lot of fronts. But I guess it’s a little bit more literal than even I had thought,” the Governor quipped during another friendly interview.

The Associated Press reports the baggie of cocaine was found on the lobby floor in the West Wing. Biden has been briefed, and his spokesperson told reporters Wednesday that the President is looking to “get to the bottom of this.”

DeSantis, who nodded when Lahren suggested the cocaine may have belonged to Hunter Biden, went on to tell the host that no commensurate scandal to the cocaine find would happen in Tallahassee.

“I could tell you in Florida, my wife and I, we have a 6-, a 5-, and a 3-year-old running around the Governor’s Mansion. So that’s not something that we see,” DeSantis said.

The Governor then offered a good-natured quip about raising kids in that space.

“We do have to occasionally get slime out of the carpet and get marker off the wallpaper. But that’s the extent of our adventures at the Governor’s Mansion.”

The Governor and First Lady Casey DeSantis have made raising their rambunctious children a leitmotif in speeches to crowds during the current campaign season.

“If you have a 6-year-old and a 5-year-old, spill slime all over, it’s OK. If you move quickly, it doesn’t get embedded in there and never comes out,” Mrs. DeSantis said this spring. “But when you come and visit Tallahassee and we invite you all and you take a tour, look around because you will see slime and crayon marks because it is our way of leaving our ‘mark’ on the mansion after we leave.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


32 comments

  • Congrats 4 Podcast

    July 5, 2023 at 5:30 pm

    Ron scored a podcast interview? WOW!!! Impressive. Way to go, Ron!

  • Andrew

    July 5, 2023 at 5:43 pm

    The powder was Don jr.’s left over from January 6th!

  • Earl Pitts American

    July 5, 2023 at 5:44 pm

    Good afternoon America,
    Go get ’em The Ronald. I, Earl Pitts American, have advised The Ronald to hit them hard and hit them often on this cocaine subject.
    We are going to force the current administration to find some young dook 4 brains staffer to falsely “take the blaim” for the team. Then be pardoned as the current Resident of The White House leaves.
    We will accept nothing less. So remember The Ronald this is not a once and done thing. Hit ’em hard and repetively The Ronald or I, Earl Pitts American, will leave and you will have to hire Mike Huckabee to take my place as your #1 Advisor.
    EPA

    • Andrew

      July 5, 2023 at 5:50 pm

      Loser Ron forgot all the piles of cash on the floor of the Guv’s residence from the huge and annual increases in every Florida citizens insurance he is responsible for and did nothing to help except ‘cash in’!

    • Lynda J Wilson

      July 6, 2023 at 10:01 am

      LOL, Closet Ron is already gone.

  • Thomas Kaspar

    July 5, 2023 at 5:47 pm

    Only one person in the Whitehouse recorded himself snorting a line of cocaine on a prostitutes bare ass which tbe world has seen and that is the wacked out Presidents wacked out son .

    • Silly Wabbit

      July 5, 2023 at 7:06 pm

      You kwazy.

    • Joe

      July 6, 2023 at 2:13 pm

      “I’m not obsessed, I’m not obsessed with Hunter,” Thomas Kaspar continues to insist as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob.

  • WhatNow

    July 5, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    Hey for all WE know the stuff might have fallen out of DeSantis’s pockets, knows (it was found in a major, fully publicly accessible area)…

    • WhatNow

      July 5, 2023 at 5:59 pm

      – WHO knows…

  • Frankie M.

    July 5, 2023 at 8:40 pm

    So Ronnies kids are defacing the Governor’s mansion? Hiuuuuge if true!

  • Suze

    July 5, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    Yea the slime in the governor’s mansion isn’t from his kids. Sorry Ronnie. Is you and KKKasey

  • Normal tourist

    July 5, 2023 at 9:56 pm

    The cocaine is from a normal, everyday tourist. If the media hadn’t been on repeat about how there was cocaine, you wouldn’t even know it was anything but a regular day with normal tourists on a normal tour.

    • Andrew

      July 5, 2023 at 10:17 pm

      The same normal ‘TOURISTS’ on January 6th?

      • Brian Power

        July 6, 2023 at 8:59 am

        Presidents can decriminalize cocaine with just a thought.

        Being that Joe Biden currently is president, when he claims to have done that, maybe his claim will actually count for something.

    • Real Native Floridian Thomas Kaspar

      July 6, 2023 at 5:44 pm

      The Secret Service new exactly who is was within hours (Hunter) if it was not Hunters cocaine , Karine Jean-Pierre and Rachel Maddow would have been waiving Hunters negative cocaine blood test result .

  • Thomas Kaspar

    July 5, 2023 at 10:05 pm

    Vegas odds published overnight by online bookmaker SportsBetting have Hunter Biden — the troubled son of U.S. President Joe Biden — as the 2-to-1 favourite, as of Wednesday morning.
    Of course it Hunters he is a hardcore addict

    • Collee

      July 6, 2023 at 12:30 pm

      As is Don jr.

      • Thomas Kaspar

        July 6, 2023 at 2:28 pm

        that’s it ?

    • Mr. Haney

      July 6, 2023 at 1:25 pm

      More likely it was yours.

  • Goofy

    July 6, 2023 at 7:25 am

    Yeah Rona, as pure as Snow White at his Disney World wedding, right? If I had to bet I would wager that Tramp and Rona have shared lines before they broke up. After all, they spout the same vomit while destroying our Nation and it’s institutions. Just say Woke!

  • Tom Palmer

    July 6, 2023 at 10:58 am

    What is amazing is that this incident got the attention out of proportion to its significance.

    • Real Native Floridian Thomas Kaspar

      July 6, 2023 at 1:01 pm

      only because everyone knows its toothless crackhead Hunters who did lines on the asses of prostitutes and recorded it .

      • Joe

        July 6, 2023 at 2:12 pm

        “I’m not obsessed, I’m not obsessed with Hunter,” Thomas Kaspar continues to insist as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob.

        • Thomas Kaspar

          July 6, 2023 at 2:30 pm

          I didn’t create the latest NYT , WSJ , WAPO Hunter cocaine headline did I .

  • Yo momma

    July 6, 2023 at 12:28 pm

    Guy in charge of Florida does not get to complain about cocaine. All cocaine goes through florida. Florida was built by cocaine.

    • Real Native Floridian Thomas Kaspar

      July 6, 2023 at 12:59 pm

      …all cocaine goes through Florida and into the Whitehouse to Hunters baggy .

      • Joe

        July 6, 2023 at 2:12 pm

        “I’m not obsessed, I’m not obsessed with Hunter,” Thomas Kaspar continues to insist as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob.

  • Eduardo Slaveen Worldwide 👍

    July 6, 2023 at 1:53 pm

    Trump threw plates of food against the wall in the Whitehouse… while his supporters threw poop inside the Capitol. Funny he didn’t mention what Republicans do to government buildings.

    • Thomas Kaspar

      July 6, 2023 at 2:31 pm

      Sad deflection

  • Joe

    July 6, 2023 at 2:10 pm

    Lol, Tomi Lahren’s podcast? I’m sure all 100 of her listeners found these anecdotes simply hilarious.

  • Tjb

    July 7, 2023 at 11:41 am

    Can Ron address real issues. I want to know why my property insurance has doubled and what he is doing to help reduce insurance rates in Florida.

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