UPDATE: The body of the unidentified man has been confirmed to be Barack and Michelle Obama’s personal chef, Tafari Campbell, aged 45.
The original age of the victim was incorrect in the initial reporting. Despite the Obama family vacationing on the island, the Obamas were not at their home in Martha’s Vineyard at the time of the incident.
(Chicago Sun Times) – […] Tafari Campbell, 45, known as one of the chefs who brewed White House honey ale beer while Obama was in office — using honey from Michelle Obama’s famous South Lawn garden — went to work for the former first couple when they left the White House.
In a statement, the Obamas said of one of the top chefs in the White House kitchen: “Tafari was a beloved part of our family. When we first met him, he was a talented sous chef at the White House — creative and passionate about food, and its ability to bring people together. In the years that followed, we got to know him as a warm, fun, extraordinarily kind person who made all of our lives a little brighter.
“That’s why, when we were getting ready to leave the White House, we asked Tafari to stay with us, and he generously agreed. He’s been part of our lives ever since, and our hearts are broken that he’s gone.
“Today we join everyone who knew and loved Tafari — especially his wife Sherise and their twin boys, Xavier and Savin — in grieving the loss of a truly wonderful man.”
The Obama’s have been spending part of the summer in Martha’s Vineyard for years.
Massachusetts State Police said Campbell was from Dumfries, Va., and “was visiting Martha’s Vineyard at the time of his passing. President and Mrs. Obama were not present at the residence at the time of the accident.” (read more)
ORIGINAL OUTLINE BELOW
Details are just starting to come out, but while the identity of the victim has not been established the description matches Reggie Love, Obama’s body man.
The body of an unidentified black male, aged 43, was found this morning after an overnight search for a missing paddleboarder in the marsh pond behind the Martha’s Vineyard home of President Barack Obama.
Apparently, a call for search and rescue units came from the Obama home last night, and the body was located in 8′ of water this morning.
VIA DAILY MAIL – […] A massive joint-agency search resumed Monday morning for the African American male who was last seen wearing all black without a lifejacket, MV Times reported.
His paddle board and hat were recovered Sunday – and his body was found in the eight-foot-deep waters approximately 100 feet away from shore at 10am Monday. The dispatch address for the incident came from Obama’s Martha’s waterfront Vineyard home. It is unclear if the former president, 61, is currently staying at the estate.
[…] Massachusetts State Police said: ‘Shortly before 10 AM the body of the missing paddle boarder was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond by Massachusetts State Police divers.
‘MSP Underwater Recovery Unit divers made the recovery after the victim’s body was located by a Massachusetts Environmental Police Officers deploying side-scan sonar from a boat.
‘As previously noted, the victim is a 43-year-old male. His name is not being released at this time; we expect to release his name later today.
‘The recovery was made approximately 100 feet from shore at a depth of about eight feet.
‘The investigation into the fatality is being conducted by the State Police Detective Unit for the Cape and Islands District and Edgartown Police.’ (read more)
It’s Martha’s Vineyard. The whitest place in the USA.
How many black males not related to Barack Obama are on the Island?
🤔 Reggie Love?
praying this is the black swan that topples the whole damned thing
took the words out of my mouth……
You would need law enforcement cause ain’t nobody gonna do a dang thing, cept maybe big mike.
USUALLY, stuff like Obama, Pelosi, whoever, work out in real life but lately, no idea where this is going. I don’t recognize this country anymore.
I can’t tell you how many people have said this to me – right & LEFT.
Well it’s definitely black. Who called this in? Shades of Ted Kennedy?
“Obama’s body man” says this story. All along I thought that role was played by Big Mie.
The explanation seems plausible on its face: The victim was paddle boarding and accidentally drowned.
Not sure how he managed it but it’s possible.
I agree it is possible….
Just not when there is a connection to Obama and friends.
Eight feet of water? I could float out of that and I’m an old lady.
Yeah, but you ain’t BLACK.
Biden was previously quoted saying, “If you vote for Trump, you can swim!”
Some black people have lower body fat and can’t swim well. Not many olympic swimmers are black.
I was in the Marines with many black men who could swim like fish. Not necessarily true that black people can’t swim.
agreed…ANYONE can be taught to swim. ANYONE. well almost anyone.
back in the day USCG indoctrination (enlisted boot camp) enforced a swim rule. if you could not be taught how to swim, you could not graduate. And yes, USCG was very tolerant of people who were slow learners. Moved back a few classes even to allow for “time”. The failure to swim was about even steven across all races. But it was definitely a higher ratio of blacks who arrived with zero experience swimming. It did not matter. They were given the opportunity to train under the guidance of the world’s best swim coaches and nearly all made it.
but some cannot be taught to swim. Usually the root cause is some very disturbing near drowning event in their lives…usually.
Now on the matter of academics, following rules, orderly, learning semi complex skills and working cohesively with the team…well…it was 50/50…
(I was RCC for three companies in the summer and winter of 1985. That was my experience. I was recruited out of dallas MEPS along with about 40 blacks. 10 graduated with our class…10 were held back and graduated later…the rest were sent back home…no thanks…)
on the matter of this black chef in the middle of what appears to be a very large pond?
God Bless America
ps…hopefully, this case will not take as long to solve as the gilgo serial murders! (I’ve taken an interest in this case with all the strange facts surrounding the backdrop)
It’s rare for someone who can’t swim to “paddle board”? Most non swimmers are scared to death of water!!! Unless it was the clot shot???
I’m going to hazard a guess here: He was incapacitated in some way. I suspect shallow water blackout. Fainting underwater.
I used to live near a lake, every summer there were bizarre stories about people who were good swimmers drowning in calm water. Usually, they were diving or swimming underwater. They’re doing fine and then suddenly they go under and don’t come back up.
Remember the actress Naya Rivera. She apparently fainted while swimming off a pontoon boat after helping her young child back up out of the water. Another famous example: Beach Boy’s drummer Dennis Wilson.
https://www.shallowwaterblackoutprevention.org/how-it-happens
The story is there was another person paddle-boarding with them and they witnessed the person go into the water, briefly struggle to remain on the surface, submerged and never resurfaced. Sounds like a person who doesn’t know how to swim or something prevented them from being able to swim (something in the water?). That is, if you believe “the story” so far.
It’s possible, the victim might be a weak swimmer and panicked when he couldn’t touch the bottom. I saw a kid do that in a pool once. He jumped off the diving board, popped up to the surface, and then panicked. He thrashed so strongly he had his upper body completely out of the water nearly to his waist, before sinking. The lifeguard jumped in and got him.
Not to mention where was his life jacket???
Big waves in the marsh pond.
lol
“Watch the Water”
Move along.
Nothing. To. See. Here.
“Petitioner Tafari Campbell, an alien in the custody of the United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (collectively, “DHS”), has filed this pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 seeking release from detention at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility (“BFDF”) in Batavia, New York, pending the execution of a final immigration order of removal issued against him. Item 1. As directed by this court’s order entered May 16, 2014 (Item 2), respondent has submitted an answer and return (Item 4), along with an accompanying memorandum of law (Item 5), in opposition to the petition, and petitioner has submitted a reply (Item 6). For the reasons that follow, the petition is denied. ” https://casetext.com/case/campbell-v-tryon
“Black swan”, indeed.
His death will be of “natural causes”…..
With racist overtones.
Damn, made me laugh out loud. Wife said “what’s up”, now she laughing also.
😅🤣🤣🤣
All 3 of you made me laugh. Thanks cuz I really needed it.
Water is raciss
He died of COVID
Another underwater death related to a high level Democrat politician on Martha’s Vineyard. What are the odds??
Paddleboarder, eh? Is that what they’re calling it now?
Nah, it’s always been a boogie board
A Boogie (body) board is typically foam and short. You ride it on your torso/upper body.
A Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) is different. Much longer than a boogie board and you use a paddle.
“Thank you sir I’ll have another”………
“May I have another” there, fixed it!
Worst euphemism for gay sex ever.
Love, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett take a ride on camels in Egypt on June 4, 2009.
So how do they know he’s 43 if he’s unidentified?
His paddleboard said he was 43…keep up, would ya! 🤣🤣🤣
Let’s be sensitive as I’m sure Reggie’s wife and kids must be in mourning 😏
I don’t believe Reggie ever married.
Well for sure we know it wasn’t 44 ’cause…..
They’re calling him unidentified because his name hasn’t been released.
Only two black males in the neighborhood.
One is very identifiable.
And it ain’t him.
So-ooooo your second choice is……..?
Highly complex process of elimination.
Whoops! I forgot about Big Mike. There are three black males in the neighborhood.
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Bingo and all is revealed in but one small Freudian slip.
I hate it when that happens, ya know, common sense.
He’s probably “unidentified” just to the media to allow contacting next of kin.
Reggie Love – Born April 29, 1981 (age 42)
Reggie Love is 42 so it may NOT be him
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BIG MIKE didnt like to compete for 0bamas affections?
That’s it. She’s running.
Tying up loose ends Barry? Big Mike?
MA Staties are corrupt as hell.
When was the 911 call made? Who made it? Where was Obama?
Teddy K, JFK Jr., now this….MV is the death triangle.
They still haven’t fixed that bridge?
🤣
..
Could have been Pelosi making an order.
Can you imagine the video and satellite surveillance around the Obama compound with John Kerry’s beachfront summer home right down the road?
How’s the rising oceans doing at Martha’s Vinyard these days?
“What ocean, Maaaaaaaaan?’ [rings of choom smoke in the air and sounds of another bottle of George Clooney’s Tijuana River Water being drained]
Something to make you go hmmmmmmmmmm?
Always a skeptic in the house!
Same guys who can’t identify who left the cocaine in the WH with cameras watching everywhere.
Yeah, and they can’t find the Jan. 6 pipe bomber either, despite a plethora of surveillance cameras…
which pipe bomber? one, two, more?
and besides…it ALL “under investigation and we cannot comment ongoing investigations”
Is Mike taking lessons from Hitlery?
“We came, we saw, he died, HAHAHAHA”
“These people are sick they go into the next room and laugh.”
It looks to me that Hillary is passing gas?
🤢🤮🤮
Eye bleach quick!
Mind bleach…
History rhymes?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6928937/Michelle-Obama-Paris-cruise-Notre-Dame-caught-fire.html
She’s wearing her best Brooks Bros suit and touting her book curiously titled “BECOMING.” Becoming a what exactly?
I hope not the next President.
I asked my old nemesis, that halfrican moslem homesexual’s husband “Michelle”, and he told me he means, “I BE COMING OUT”, that’s what.
He’s tired of hiding his genitals in baggy women’s clothing.
“If you can’t run your own house you certainly can’t run the White House.”
–Michelle Obama
Everything Woke Turns to Shame
It’s “High Summer” season on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vinyard. The Obama’s are there and if they suddenly left, well, then there’s your answer!
Osama’s back door church club overnight guest ?
Osama’s body many ?
You know the truth will never come to light just like Osama’s days as a senator in the back of a limousine smoking the pipe with his white lover who just so happened died as well.
Another Hammer Fest gone wrong?
Nothing to see here…
Move along.
What’s a “body man” ?
Maybe one that can’t swim ?
I don’t know, but the poor guys in a body bag now!
Linky:
“A “body man” is an assistant who follows a political figure around the clock, providing logistical assistance for daily tasks ranging from paperwork to meals.”
So, basically a male lady-in-waiting.
Slimer averted…… 😉
Silly critter!
Sooo…Obama has or has had:
A body man, R. Love
A wing man, E. Holder
And his main man, Mike
Hussein sure seems to like being surrounded by…men.
Top. Men.
Deleted
Parallel to Huma Abedin for Big H.
Perzactly.
Weird term, it greatly predates Obama.
A young man that is like an “intern” and accompanies the POTUS almost everywhere, like a personal servant/assistant.
Carries his val pac, opens doors, gets him a glass if water, reminds him to take his meds, etc.
“reminds him to take his meds”
You mean medicinal maryjane?
yes, it’s a relic term
old parlance.
the more accurate term for official functionary to a leader, president or military officer would be
aide
You don’t want to know. Trust me.
Uh, oh; Michele’s 2024 campaign just had its own Chappaquidic moment.
on the contrary – its preparing to kick off and they are closing any loopholes.
Reggie Love did not kill himself.
.
Neither did Loretta Fuddie.
Hmmm. She perished in a body of water, also . . .
She the one who got O a birth certificate and knew o’s mother way back?
Ayup.
Def of “body man”?
body manA “body man” is an assistant who follows a political figure around the clock, providing logistical assistance for daily tasks ranging from paperwork to meals.
This is different than the advance man who typically prepares solely for campaign events.
The term typically refers to the closest personal aide to a president or presidential candidate. This assistant stays with the official at all times save for sensitive meetings and personal moments.
Body men work with political advisors, administrative staff, and family members to manage the president’s time.
The president typically selects a body man from their campaign or previous office to ensure confidentiality.
Political observers have only used this term in public recently with the earliest published reference dating back to 1988.
In other words, “Gofer.”
More intimate than that.
He is so close he needn’t be sent to get.
He may well send others.
Like Huma Abedin.
Fluffler boy
Head Fluffer ?
more like dead body man sounds like
Never been married. In 2019, Love endorsed Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
And their common denominator is NOT their color.
Then “Sue” got it right,….. a lady in waiting.
🤔😏
Must . . . restrain . . . comment . . . argh!
He was shouting, but no one would listen.
No more shouting.
“It is unclear if the former president, 61, is currently staying at the estate.”
Huh? How difficult is it to find out where any former President is at any given moment?
Where are the Clinton’s? Sounds like it is directly out of their playbook.
First thought would be a gentleman doing his job/career, and saw something he should not have seen, then of course had to be Clintonized.
May he rest in peace.
If it does turn out to be Reggie, rumor hath it that his job included many things none of them ever wanted the public to see.
Kinda like Epstein’s job, in a way…
Times like this I wish I still had a twit… X account.
Wishful of being X’ed on X?
There are some reports the deceased is Jamal Gibbs, Obama’s black boyfriend. Reggie Love (according to Wiki) was born April 29, 1981, which makes him 42.
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Twenty year age difference, but yet long-time ‘buddies’?
Not quite passing the smell test . . .
Can’t wait to see the autopsy and toxicology report. Oh, wait. It’s been classified!
….due to an ongoing (infinite) investigation….
It will be filed with the birth certificate, all college transcripts, and all other information on Hussein to never see the light of day…
It seems there are a great many sudden, unexplained deaths of younger people these days. The cause here is probably the same as that unmentionable source that has killed so many others.
oh rest assured these assholes DID NOT TAKE THE CLOT SHOTS…..
Kenyaned?
Obamacide?
Young, fit surfers and paddleboarders have been dropping like flies in New Zealand and Australia over the last couple of years.
Respectfully, Sundance, while there is a satirical map floating about denoting the ‘collaborative’ of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard as the ‘White Carribean’ of Massachusetts, in actual fact, it is NOT true in the case of Martha’s Vineyard, where a revival community drew African Americans seasonally to Oaks Bluffs, with its characteristic colorful one or two room cottages.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a6668/oak-bluffs-african-american-community/
Architecturally, Oak Bluffs stands alone in all of New England for its scale and amazing array of bright colors. There is nothing like it in the New England landscape.
Whatever transpired in his life, RIP Reggie Love.
Yes, Oak Bluffs is the elite Black summertime cottage colony. Henry Lewis Gates of Harvard fame visits here; Susan Rice-types, too. The beach they like is called the “Ink Well”! The Obama’s place is not part of this.
You’re both right. I spent several summers working on Martha’s Vineyard before Obama’s time. Oak Bluffs has a fascinating history. It was a Methodist Campground and has been a favourite place for Black Americans to vacation for a long time. However, Edgartown is VERY white and that is the town closest to where the body was found.
Yup, life has brought me through Edgartown too.
Great little bar there called Sharkys.
Actually, there is a ‘sister village’ to Oak Bluffs located in upstate New York. Round Lake Village was a revival meeting place (Methodist Bible camp) that morphed into the same spirit and architecture of Oak Bluffs during the late 1800s. Very cool and unique village of Victorian gingerbread homes.
Link:
Wide Urban World: Round Lake: From Methodist Camp Meeting to Modern Village
Interesting! I have ascertained from antique post card collecting that there also was a revival meeting camp in Alton Bay NH at the Southern point of Lake Winnepesauke. I do not believe it was African American, however.
…when Chappaquiddick is not convenient.
May peace be with his family and I pray for the soul of the deceased.
Thank you for the one decent comment so far.
Police say that another paddle boarder was on the pond with him at the time and observed him go under the water. (MV Times link in article)
Who dat?
…and reported seeing go under ten hours afterwards?
Remember that two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.
So Barry’s Bath House Buddy was found in the pond. Better than the pool I guess
But will there be water in the lungs?
Oh well, no more warm showers in the wee hours of the morning anymore for those two. I’m sure Barry will be flying to Chicago to audition a replacement over at Man’s Country after a suitable period of mourning. Was Killary anywhere near there in the past 48 hours ? (Asking for a friend)
It has to be Mr. Love because the rich Democrats threw all the other people of color off the island a few months ago.
I guess Big Mike is the jealous type
Gateway Pundit per a Daily Mail report:
“The 43-year-old vanished on Sunday evening while he was out with another paddleboarder on Edgartown Great Pond, Massachusetts, and emergency crews were dispatched to Obama’s residence.”
So did someone go back to Obama’s house to report a missing person?
We wait for the autopsy on this one, but, again, the jurisdiction is Massachusetts.
The John Mellencamp song come to mind, “and the walls come crumbling down and the walls come crumbling and crumbling….”
Reggie Love was born in April of 1981, so he is 42, can’t be him, cough, cough, sneeze and spital. Such granular detail. How did they know how old he was without knowing who he was?
Do humans have tree rings?
Just observing that the coastal marshy landscape, mostly unchanged since even before the Indians migrated all the way to future Massuchusetts coast several thousand years ago (I am not sure if they ever rowed out in large canoes to the MV or Nantucket like the Chumash did with Catalina or the Tainos with Dominica), looks very pleasant and warm. I have heard that there is an abundance of coastal birds and flowers. I would like to visit there one day.
Too bad this young man died in a tragic way so close to shore but you always try to be out on the water with a buddy or within sight of a crowd, even in the calmest waters. It could have been from a heart attack or stroke with the hot humid weather or alcohol. If he was out past dark, it could have been panic in dark water. Drowning, if it was the final ordeal, is torture.
If it turns out to be drowning with contributing factor of Fentanyl poisoning, imagine the uncomfortable position Joe’s handler who owns the seaside mansion there in M.V. would be in as a cheerleader to keep the borders open to illegals from Latrine America.
Yes drowning is a horribly painful, slow and silent death.
His clothing probably weighed him down, no pfd or any floatation devise, and he wasn’t leashed to the board so he couldn’t hold on to it. This is very sad no matter who it is
Of the thousands upon thousands who visit the Treehouse, I hope none of them lost a loved one via drowning.
My cousin did, and I came close myself once.
Not something I like to dwell on, there are so many sad ways to suffer the end of our days here.
Don’t know how the coast can be unchanged after several thousand years with globull warming and ocean rising and all the other malarkey.
Marshlands are quite unlikely to endure millennia unchanged.
They aren’t the Rock of Gibraltar after all.
“ The paddle boarder is a 43-year-old male. Another paddle boarder was on the pond with him at the time and observed him go under the water.”
https://www.capecod.com/cape-wide-news/developing-marthas-vineyard-officials-searching-for-possibly-drowning-victim-near-obama-estate/
Probably a jab related heart attack or trying to swim while intoxicated.
Wouldn’t be noteworthy if unrelated to barry unless he was seen recently criticizing hillary or speaking with James O’Keefe.
Obama goes through lots of disposables.
Does this make BO a widower?
Barry, I think it’s time we tell the world about us.
Great idea Reggie. Let’s go paddleboarding.
I’m still curious of Obamas installing 2,500 gallons of propane tanks which are spread out and used for multiple structures around that home. Gosh- how many are- err- were – living at that residence.
The Obama’s are preparing for the Great Reset!
Possibly nothing more here than a jabbed victim of SADS.
Well, darn. Reggie Love is credited with putting Jay-Z on Obama’s iPod and teaching him how to fist-bump!
The Secret Service says they may never be able to identify who’s cocaine, wait… never mind.
Does this mean Big Mike is running? Dead guys tell no tales and all that.
The body of a 43 year old Black male….how old is Big Mike?
In human or dog years?