‘Incredibly Irresponsible:’ Karine Jean-Pierre Snaps At Reporter Over Question About Cocaine In The White House

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday snapped at a reporter over a question about a bag of cocaine found at the White House.

“Can you just say once and for all whether or not the cocaine belonged to the Biden family?” Caitlin Doornbos, a New York Post reporter, asked Jean-Pierre.

In response, Jean-Pierre said the White House has already answered that question.

“We’re not avoiding the question, that is not true, we’ve answered this question, and we’ve litigated the question for the past two days exhaustively,” the White House press secretary said.

She went on to “call out” the reporter and insisted that the Biden family was not at the White House when the cocaine bag was allegedly found by Secret Service on Sunday near the ground floor entrance to the West Wing.

“You know, there has been some irresponsible reporting about the family, and so I gotta call that out here,” Jean-Pierre said. “I have been very clear. I was clear two days ago when talking about this over and over again as I was being asked the questions, as you know, and media outlets reported this.

Karine Jean-Pierre's newest answer on the White House cocaine scandal: "There has been some irresponsible reporting about the [Biden] family" pic.twitter.com/cSTxpnbune

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“The Biden family was not here. They were not here. They were at Camp David. They were not here Friday. They were not here Saturday. They were not here Sunday. They were not even here Monday. They came back on Tuesday,” she said.

“So to ask that question is actually incredibly irresponsible, and I’ll just leave it there,” Jean-Pierre said.

Since the bag’s discovery, speculation has abounded about President Joe Biden’s adult son, Hunter Biden, who is known to have been a drug addict in the past.

Initially, the zippered bag was said to have been discovered in a cubby where visitors to the West Wing are asked to leave their phones.

“What I wanted to be very clear is that this is a heavily, heavily trafficked, heavily traveled, to be more accurate, area of the campus of the White House,” Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday. “It is where visitors to the West Wing come through.”

On Thursday however, officials said the cocaine bag was found near the West Executive entrance, which is closer to the Situation Room and one floor below the Oval Office. That entrance is also near where the vice president’s vehicle parks.

The entrance reportedly sees VIPs, visitors, tourists, staff members, military officials, and facilities operations employees come through the area.

Officials familiar with the investigation have reportedly indicated that they are not optimistic the person who left the cocaine bag will be found since it was discovered in a highly-trafficked area.

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany criticized Jean-Pierre’s Wednesday briefing on Fox News, saying she “brought nothing” in terms of answers.

“I would not have walked to that podium without saying, ‘Secret Service, you have to give me something here.’ … She brought no answers. Totally inexcusable,” McEnany said.

Trans-Identifying Male Gives Talk On ‘Women’s Empowerment’ at New Jersey Prison: Report

A trans-identifying male reportedly gave a talk on “women’s empowerment” at a New Jersey women’s prison.

La’Nae Grant, a biological man who identifies as a woman, lectured female inmates on June 20 at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women about women’s empowerment and the importance of “inclusivity,” Reduxx reported.

Grant reportedly urged the women to accept that “transgender women are women” and said he thinks “cisgender women” may not immediately accept trans-identifying men due to “competition” for male sexual partners.

Kokila Hiatt, an inmate at the facility, described the event to Reduxx, saying many of the women who attended did not know the event would discuss gender identity.

“Many women behaved in a polite manner by sitting and listening. A lot of people just tuned out. No one was anticipating what this event was really about. It was billed as a Women’s Empowerment Event. His picture was on the sign-up sheet, but this person visibly ‘passes’ as a woman, so no one thought anything of it when they signed up to attend,” Hiatt told Reduxx.

“Attendance was not required in that people signed up to attend, but please remember, no one knew what it was they were really signing up for. They were duped into attending something for this transgender person,” Hiatt said.

Hiatt called the event “government-funded and facilitated.” Grant delivered his remarks in a gym at the prison, which means New Jersey’s Department of Corrections executive staff from Trenton would have to approve it, she said.

“Custody staff members here had to enable inmate movement and supervise attendance. Some members of this facility’s administrative staff was present,” Hiatt said.

Grant is currently the CEO of Lady L’s LGBTQIA+ Services, according to his LinkedIn. Before that, he worked for the city of East Orange, most recently as the director of the

The women’s prison, New Jersey’s only correctional facility for women, is located near Clinton, New Jersey. Last year, Governor Phil Murphy appointed Grant to the women’s prison’s Board of Trustees.

Murphy’s office called Grant “the first transgender woman” to serve on the board and said he is a “longtime activist for the rights of the transgender community, including transgender persons that are currently incarcerated.”

Grant “began transitioning into a woman” about a decade ago around age 28, he told New Jersey Advance Media in 2021. He took estrogen and has gotten genital surgery and “breast reconstructive surgery,” and before that, he identified as a gay man, he told the outlet.

In 2021, New Jersey prison officials agreed to start placing trans-identifying males in the women’s prison. However, that policy was tweaked to consider safety and other factors after a male inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility impregnated two women while behind bars.

Demetrius “Demi” Minor, who was 27 at the time, impregnated two of female inmates, news of which broke last year. He was moved to a youth correctional facility.

In 2020, Grant commented on the governor signing a bill prohibiting the use of “gay or trans panic” defenses by people accused of homicide.

“We deserve to live with dignity and safety in our communities,” Grant said at the time. “Knowing that the ‘panic’ defense is banned in New Jersey is another victory and moment of empowerment for black trans women like myself, but there’s still more work to do for our community.”

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