Fox anchor on cocaine found at the White House: “We're not saying it is Hunter Biden's” but people should be mentioning his name more

Written by Ethan Collier

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After the powdery substance discovered at the White House by Secret Service on Sunday, July 2, was confirmed to be cocaine, right-wing media and Fox have already found a familiar target to blame: Hunter Biden.  



On the July 6 episode of The Faulkner Focus, Fox anchor Julie Banderas wasted no time in pointing the finger at Hunter Biden. Banderas complained that “not one broadcast mentioned the name Hunter Biden” in their coverage of the story. Banderas went on to say that she is not outright “saying [the cocaine] is Hunter Biden’s,” but rather “calling it what it is” by underscoring Biden’s past issues with drugs as a “former crack cocaine addict.”

From the July 6, 2023, edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus 

JULIE BANDERAS (ANCHOR): If you look at the way they are handling it right off the bat they make it seem suspicious. We're just asking questions, the reporters that are there in the press pool, right? If you look at all the other networks for example, all of the other major broadcast networks last night, they all led with the cocaine found at the White House. Not one – one –  broadcast mentioned the name Hunter Biden. Now, we're not saying it’s Hunter Biden's. We're calling it for what it is. The president's son is a former crack cocaine addict and he is supposed to be clean. He was given a slap on the wrist for charges that should have been felony charges. Why? Because he is the president's son. Preferential treatment, obviously it’s a very sensitive topic when it comes to his son and indeed cocaine was found in an area in the White House where Hunter Biden has visited so of course that’s going to be a question. And there’s no room for joking about it, all these other networks making these stupid jokes. There's no laughing matter. Crack cocaine addiction is serious and this is a serious drug that was found in our White House.