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?
Wearing all black at night, long sleeves long pants (guessing?) makes it really hard to move/swim thru the water should you go in.
No pfd, required by law on a paddle board. And he was also not leashed to the board, which is something most paddlers do, especially while paddling alone. If you fall off your board, the pfd keeps you face up and the leash keeps you with your board.
So, yeah, nothing suspicious here
It’s a pond! The guy is only 43 and can’t swim?
Black men can’t swim. Sort of like White Men Can’t Jump.
The truly sad part of this story is that it wasn’t his BF that died in the pond. The world would have been much brighter today
You don’t know who he was? I do.
Oh? Enlighten us. Or go away. Jeez, this isn’t Twitter. Or Instagram.
Reminds me of swim training in the Marine Corps. You would not believe the amount of fear that the black recruits displayed. I was only 18, but it made it clear to me that “stereotypes” were largely based in fact.
Swim training in Navy- the same.
In Marine basic I ( white ) got pulled off the bottom of pool in swim training.
Threw me right back in and got pulled out again.
And threw right back in again for the third time .
Made it third time. Talk about muscle failure!
I could swim, but not wearing extra large clothes , when I usually wear small . Didn’t work to well.
I do remember the black guys in the shallow end splashing around. But I had my own problems going on to notice if they ever made in into the deep end .
Semper Fi
I was also in the Marines. I knew many black Marines who could swim like fish. However, at swim qual one year I saw a black Marine enter the water and sink like a stone as he performed survival strokes all the way to the bottom. He was a very robust, muscular, low body fat guy. Negative buoyancy.
It’s true. When I went though the water survival part of Navy basic training, almost every black guy in the company got set back to another class because they struggled so much in the water. Some of them couldn’t even float at all.
And Asian men can’t run or something…
And white men can’t jump.
Dats Rayciss:
https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/498467/obamas-personal-chef-tafari-campbell-seen-confidently-swimming-laps-after-tragically-drowning/
And he’s almost 8 freaking feet tall himself
And aren’t paddle boards just one giant hunk of a flotation device. Do you mean to tell me that he fell so far from the paddle board … and that he was so poor a swimmer … that he couldn’t catch the paddle board and float? Something doesn’t smell right …
A bullet in the cerebral cortex tends to make one’s skills irrelevant…
You would be amazed at the percentage of blacks that can not swim
But why go in the water then?
He might not have been offered a choice.
Maybe, and I speculate, he also knows about what the 2 WBs knew about. Maybe he knows of what Archer will speak too. Maybe he mentioned to BHO- speak up, give plausible deniability….you know, before it passes the point of no return. And BHO disagreed and replied “I’m only worried about loose ends. Do you know any?”
And…he’s gone.
A non swimmer that paddle-boards.
Sure.
Everyone….I mean Everyone….had to pass a swim test in order to graduate from basic training. No swim…No pass. Go home.
I didn’t. I was “drown-proofed.” And whenever you go in the water they gave you a weak swimmer light to attach to your gear so if you went under they could find you easier.
Swimming lessons and skills are racist. Only white people live near lakes, rivers, and ponds. Muni pools probably don’t enforce the swim skill test before you go in deep end because it would likely disproportionately keep minorities in the shallow end.
Why would any culture that has populated deserts for centuries have any concern for swimming? On the other hand coastal Italian, Greek, or Indonesian or Bahamian fishing culture are likely experts. Not race, it’s culture.
I was told that it is the hair.
Black women don’t like to get their hair wet. The hair gets frizzy and becomes a task to deal with.
At least that is what a black coworker told me years ago.
Nah … da blacks men be all muscle and whatnot. They so heavy, they just sink. That’s what I learned on the way to the library in 7th grade.
It has to be skin pigment then. Black must be heavy and stuff..
I’m white, muscular and know many like that….being military a d stuff…we could swim and float despite muscles.
😂
Heavier bone structures also, makes it harder to float.
Dementia Joe was too busy teaching the black kids how to pat down the wet blonde hair on his legs instead of teaching them how to swim in those municipal pools back in the day…
It is the Edgartown Great Pond which most likely is connected to the ocean at high tide and it is not small.
Pretty calm water though!
It’s located near Poucha Pond where Ted Kennedy left Mary Jo to die. Something not right about this whole picture. Did someone know too much? I read where Obama’s friends mysteriously ended up dead in Chicago.
Who says he can’t swim???
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-proficient-swimmer-tafari-campbell-drowning-death-paddleboarding-comes-scrutiny
Nothing to see here. Media will bury the story with their usual meme…..”LOOK! over there………TRUMP!”
The Clintons…
Isn’t the paddle board itself one giant pfd?
One doesn’t wear it.
If it’s not tethered to one’s ankle it can get away easily.
Imagine how simply falling off could kick it far away, and in the dark it might be hard to locate, especially if one is panicking and in distress.
And panicking in smooth pond water is perfectly normal for people choosing to ride a paddle board.
Depends on the person.
Recreational medications.
Vaxxines.
Qui sait?
Maybe that bullet in the brain caused the panic…
It was not dark at 7:30 at night in July.
I’m an avid swimmer and boater, and I can’t understand going out at night on the water without a life jacket. We’ve already had 2 drownings this summer at our lake, neither one was wearing a jacket. Totally unnecessary tragedies.
It floats, yes. And you can hang on to it for sure. However if you’re not leashed to it and you fall in, the board can get away from you. Exhaustion, being weighed down by clothing, choking on water, can all bring on panic. Not thrashing around aquatic distress, silent frozen scared stiff panic, where you can barely move or breathe. Drowning is silent.
Is hard to swim when COVID is holding your head underwater. All dressed up and no place to go.
Giving it the charitable take:
I wouldn’t assume long sleeves or pants. At 7:30pm it was likely in the mid 70s low 80s. Also at that time of night it would be still very light. Being in a more northern latitude it probably gets dark around 9:45 or so.
Another report contradicts the one that the OBMs weren’t at the residence; YET the dispatch address for the incident came from Obama’s Martha’s waterfront Vineyard home.
The 43-year-old man’s body was located about 100 feet from the shore in 8 feet of water at about 10 a.m., according to officials. 8 feet of water?
This other report says “It is unclear if the former president, 61, is currently staying at the estate.” It is well know that the OBMs spend summers there. There or not there?
Who made the call from the OBMs’ residence?
Secret Service did not comment
Will Obamacide replace Akanicidde as the new term for unexplained deaths of political figures?
His LOVER wanted to speak out
Barry kept telling Reggie, “just wait until I’m no longer POTUS and I’ll divorce Michael”…. Just my guess.
Obama’s BFF did NOT commit Pondicide. And he was not gonna “Out” their relationship … q
BINGO! I was waiting for someone to get it.
So, is this another Democrat “false flag”, we’re due for one, ya know?
That’s exactly what it is. Anything to take the heat off the Demonrat corruption machine.
Just wondering if this video had anything to do with obama cleaning up an Obama Nation mess? If I was a black or white male that had sex with obama I would worry that he has adopted the Clinton’s method of cleaning up messes??? Perhaps big Mike got after obama and told him to cleanup his homosexual dalliances???
Cleaning up loose ends before Big Mike announces?
I think that ship sailed.
Someone is waiting in the wings to slide right in after the ENEmedia removes quid pro Joe. Could be Newsom. Could be anyone, for that matter. These people don’t have to play by rules.
What was he, a security testing ninja?
A black man, dressed all in black, goes missing at night while sneaking around the President’s home on a paddle board.
Also, with all the shark shows on this time of year, 8′ is plenty.
43 seems a bit young for heart troubles. Something no one can say anymore after the jabs.
Wonder what his swimming skills were? But if he fell off, the board could be used for flotation. That is if he didn’t hit his head hard in the fall.
So many different possibilities. But all of them sad.
If he couldn’t swim, most adults would not paddleboard or go on a boat without a life jacket. Swim challenged adults get more cautious about water and drowning as they get older.
Some people are too cool to observe the cautions lesser souls abide.
I believe it’s called hubris.
Some call it having your head held under water too. But not those in government work. It’s called suicide, even when involving two gun shots to the head.
Wet work?
Drowned in 8 ft of water close to shore? Sounds about right
Most people uncomfortable in the water do not swim at night either.
It was not dark at 7:30.
Especially a paddle board. You need good balance so you expect some spills, hence if you’re not a good swimmer I’d think you’d wear a life vest or not paddle board.
Actually, there is a massive black presence in Oak Bluffs, a town on the Vineyard.
Not disagreeing at all that it is probably an Obammie victim, however, Oak Bluffs is a tourist destination for blacks…
Valerie Jarrett, that whacko professor in Cambridge, and other black Dems live there.
I thought Jarrett was living with the Obamas.
She was said to be living with them in their DC compound.
The one from which they ran their Shadow Presidency against PDJT.
I’ve no idea where she is now.
I’ve walked those streets … you are 100% correct … blacks on every porch in town during the summer. Slumming in Martha’s Vineyard
Imagine if the U.S. wasn’t so racist they may actually be sitting on porches, on one of the most expensive islands to live on, in the world!!! Unlike me…….
Oh, wait…they…are…but I’m not…did I get in the wrong (white) privilege line?
But the ferry is only $20.00 round trip from Woods Hole to Oak Bluffs … even I could afford to walk-around the Bluffs and see the black folk livin large. But that’s all I could afford … just a walk-by.
Did someone say Martha’s Porch Monkeys? Oh, excuse me, that can’t be…
There is a noticeable pattern of deaths of younger people in water the past 18 months. Usually right after plunging in, often not resurfacing. If you look for it, you see it, even in the local obituaries.
Sudden death while exercising and during sudden temperature changes to which the body must adjust.
On that subject of jab injuries, shot
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/landmark-pre-trial-hearing-granted-workers-compensation-lawsuit/
Chaser.
https://www.newswars.com/daughter-of-jj-covid-19-vaccine-executive-dies-suddenly-following-seizures/
My heart has, sadly, grown way too cold.
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
Well, maybe. May God forgive me for the thought, which I know is not a Christian response to the death of a 10 year old child.
The spiritual war is getting more difficult by the day.
The American River is running swift and freezing cold after this winters “EXTREME weather” snowpack in the Sierra. So the inevitable bodies are being hauled out of the river …
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article277584688.html
And when the victims are not identified … you can always be assured that means … “not Caucasian”.
Swam there as a kid.
Definitely cold, but Oregon rivers run 55 degrees in the Summer too.
The only way to not inch your way slowly to numb yourself to it is to just run and jump in, by the time you frantically make your way back to shore you don’t feel it anymore.
Same as doing polar bear plunges!!!! One year I did it, air temp was 2F with -10F wind chill.
Firefighter divers were actively keeping lake from freezing over.
The jump in- bam!!! Talk about endorphin rush.
Then its ok….until you get out to run to heated tent…now, that’s when the cold gets your toes and fingers.
Best time was when my sons (14,11 and 9) all did it with me. They did it for several more years too…until the event moved to a location farther away.
You two are certifably insane. Although I have spent many a HOT HOT summer day sitting in little creeks and rivlets in the high sierra … shrinking up like a stack of dimes … but not even enough to make a phone call.
I once swam in the Arctic Sea at the Lofoten Islands. I was 28
I’m sure that felt nice….LOL.
Anyone’s death is sad, for those who are their family and friends; wondering if this is another one of those sudden heart attacks that people seem to be catching these days.
Mack didn’t use a knife this time. Biden’s luck of the Irish is rebelling against Buraq’s orders to stand down?
Gang warfare hopefully – Bidens vs Obamas vs Clintons
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water again…….
From Arkancide to Vinyardcide…
Paddle board on a pond?
It’s only 8 feet deep. Why not paddle board on the ocean in front of mansion?
On a pond? Never heard of that. Gross. Ponds not maintained are usually smelly and full of over growth. Lol. Need more details.
Wow Just wow.
Edgartown Great Pond https://www.google.com/maps/place/79+Turkeyland+Cove+Rd,+Edgartown,+MA+02539/@41.359369,-70.541384,14.5z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e52e14585c8ddd:0x62d1adc45b5d9327!8m2!3d41.3606988!4d-70.5465034!16s%2Fg%2F11dxqf6x32?entry=ttu
Huge lakes can be called “ponds” in the NE. Seen many of ’em.
In places with not as much water, I’ve noticed that ponds are often called “lakes” .
This one’s got to be a bit brackish. It’s practically connected to the Atlantic Ocean!
That would be a creek then.
In Texas, we call large ponds “tanks,” which is probably a loanword from Spanish.
my “pond” in Maine is 13 miles long and 70 deep in the middle. Yes in small coves there are lily pads growing and some muck underfoot but that is a very small percentage of the total area of the pond…”Moose Pond” to be exact. My pond is landlocked, Obama’s pond is connected to the Atlantic Ocean. Obama would never have spent $12million for frontage on the pond you describe.
Yep.
I was thinking primarily of Maine when I wrote that comment. haha.
They’ve got some wicked big “Ponds” up there!
Sounds like a woke version of Mary Jo Kopechne
Ha Ha…..That’s exactly what I said. That pond where he died is near Poucha Pond where Ted left Mary Jo to die.
Martha’s Vineyard has a larg(ish) black population. It’s traditionally been a spot where the black elite summers. It’s not the whitest place in the country by a long shot.
With all due respect, when Gavin Newsom left as Mayor of San Francisco, he moved to Ross in Marin County. More white than white.
Then Newsom moved another overwhelming white area in Sacramento on the river with suspicious financing.
Ross is where his spoiled rich white wife was raised … in the lap of the 0.001% wealthy. Zillow the property values there. It’s astounding.
A message from Hunter to Team Obama
If what everyone is saying is true about the Dem Party preparing and facilitating the info releases to change to Newsome for 2024, then an “answer” seems reasonable in that theory.
Obama got illegal money for his election from middlemen/China as per the recent court case.
How much of a cut did he get from Biden/China bribes? Why is no one asking?
Obama had no scandals during his administration. Don’t you remember him bragging about it?
not a smidgen………..
No it was a YUGE SMUDGEN
The lengths these people will go to in order to shift the news cycle…
The ME needs to check for Barry’s and Big Mike’s DNA up his arse.
Maybe this is a cryptic message to Devon Archer…..
Hey BO I need some walking around money or I am going to write a book. Hey RL these nice men are going to take you paddle boarding while I think about it.
Covert ops can work all kinds of ways by anyone.
How do they know the victim’s age if they haven’t identified him yet. I imagine Obama is distraught right now.
They didn’t say they hadn’t identified him, just that they weren’t releasing the name.
There is identifying a body, and then there is OFFICIALLY identifying, and then there is RELEASING the name.
3 seperate steps.
Just another game of CLUE. Anything connected to or embarrassing to a Democrat goes the way of Paul Pelosi in the Mansion in his underpants, with a hammer…..nothing to see here, move along, bury it.
Sounds like an Ed Buck situation.
The name is not being released.
Still early (and there is that notification of next of kin thing), but…
…if it were anyone unconnected with the Obamas, that name would be headline news already.
Wouldn’t it?
After all – it takes time to spin up a narrative…
Reggie Love is the name of the lawyer character in John Grisham’s book THE CLIENT. Susan Sarandon played the part in the movie.
It would not surprise me at all to find that Sarandon identifies as a black male.
Good recall. I LOVED her character!! So well played (despite me loathing Sarandon)
Dittos!
Does anyone here believe the Secret Service will be truthful about the obama’s currently staying at the estate?
You mean the same Secret Service that seemingly cannot identify the owner of the cocaine found at the White House recently?
🤔
The same secret service that got hookers on oversea trips?
Indeed.
Dan Bongino – call your office…
Are we sure it wasn’t Devon Archer in blackface?
Someone made ObObo and offer he couldn’t refuse, don’t think Obobo owns any horses.
how did they know right off the bat the age of the person but nothing else? this thing is hincky
Huh, the plot of No Way Out with Costner and Hackman comes to mind.
Love that movie. A great re-watch (I must have seen it a couple dozen times by now).
I may even watch it tonight!
CNN, NBC, and just about all of the fake online media outlets have still not reported on the black man found drowned 100 feet from Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard estate.
Daily Mail had buried story also (in the last hr) and cut all comments and erased the ones that were there.
Wow.
Once again, thanking the heavens for CTH!
Even Citizen “Free”Press has not a whisper – unusual for them…
Gettr does have a couple of reports.
Wait, just looked again and CFP does have it – in purple (which I think denotes important – red headlines are bigger).
UPDATE on both – When I tried to go to the article on CFP I got an error – and then the same error trying to go to the Gateway Pundit blurb on Gettr.
FWIW. It’s up now and I had no trouble opening it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12331627/Desperate-search-paddleboarder-43-went-missing-water-Marthas-Vineyard.html
Thanks, yes!
The CFP article is the Daily Mail one that sundance originally referenced.
Gateway Pundit’s is their own.
Democrats, water, drowning and Edgartown? And a Ted Kennedy nominee! Richard Nixon must be relishing this.
Are they going to blame RFK Jr?
Well, I don’t know but I’m guessing an eight-foot man in eight feet of water could possibly bob wade to shore. Just saying.
cant stop laughing over your comment drip!
“Bob wade” … how PERFECTLY descriptive! I’ve done that before … and my name isn’t even “Bob”
“The man had reportedly been paddle boarding on the Edgartown Great Pond in the ultra-wealthy Massachusetts town and disappeared under the water shortly before 8 p.m.”
Who paddle boards at dusk?
I don’t know… didn’t a former CIA chief have issues with piloting a canoe or something and lost his battle with life?
Me.
and on a full moon, on misty mornings, or bright sunny days. With a pfd and leashed to the board, esp when alone.
If the pond has access to the ocean, a great WHITE shark could have knocked him off the board………….
That would fit the Dems narrative.
another funny one
There is a sea otter who has been stealing 🦦
surfboards from California surfers. She is very 🏄♀️
aggressive about the encounters because it is HER ocean.
Maybe she got fed up and took a vacay to Martha’s Vineyard. Paddle boards just may be her new thing.
If the Secret Service is investigating…we’ll never know who it is…
There were no video cameras on the paddleboard!
“The body of an unidentified black male, aged 43,………….”
He’s unidentified, yet they know he’s 43 years old?
This. Lol
So, the guy was not roped to a paddleboard? Was he roped to a concrete block?
What is the evidence a paddleboard was even involved in this?
This already sounds completely bogus.
Were there gunshot or knife wounds in the body recovered?
The media is going to say Trump did it in the pond with the paddle board. obvious homicide.
another black on black crime
Sundance , you need a slight correction , Martha’s Vineyard , the northern part, Oak Bluffs , is known as the “Black Hamptons” , an historic vacation spot that has become very trendy over the years for the upper echelons of Black elites , so it is Not the Whitest of the white per se .
However , the Edgartown Pond ( ironic vis-a -vis Ted and Mary Jo K and sad anniv . Is just down a ways) is on bottom of island and that is where Obama’s mansion is , overlooking that pond , and that is where call came from – so defiantly odds are that Reggie Love or another Obama guest or affiliate. An avoidable accident for sure …
And the famous beach in Oak Bluffs is known as Ink Well — go figure! Why is that not racist? Asking for a friend.
Tell it to these musical geniuses:
Did the 43 year old Paddle Boy get the Seth Rich treatment?
Paddling in the night time…sure. Define night time. When was the person was missing and reporting missing? Time of Death?
Has everyone on the compound been questioned, all their electronic devices taken?
Can you even IMAGINE the outcry if Rudy Giuliani was found floating dead in the MaraLago swimming pool!? Ohhhhhhhhhh mommmmaaaaaa … the outrage, the innuendo, the Grand Jury indictment … “Trump keeps Giuliani from testifying” …
And then the left would all say … good riddance to that MAGAt … and laugh at his passing. Like the dead bodies floating by Brian William’s New Orleans hotel window …
Obama’s floating body … crickets.
Deep state likes to recruit corrupt, criminals and deviant politicians. Easy to control.
Lovers quarrel turned deadly..
Now it’s a 44-year old. Also no mention of Obama in this BH article 🤔
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/24/massachusetts-state-police-recover-body-of-missing-paddle-boarder-from-marthas-vineyard-pond/
Seeing how the Bud Light campaign crashed n’ burned, Big Mike finally had enough of this lengthy charade(?)
Oh my. What if its actually Michael/Michelle?
Look at all that water surrounding that piece of land. The Obama’s were really really worried about that man made climate change thing putting them underwater, huh?
Just an FYI that there is a pretty large black population on Martha’s Vineyard, though most live on the other side of the island from Obama’s place.