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?
So he was 45, not 43.
Really makes you wonder whether the initial headline of 43 and 12.6 was some sort of communication.
Like that Daily Mail article of QE II featuring a picture of her in her living room dressed to go out, in traveling togs, just a few days prior to the announcement of her death.
🤔
“Our new in-house chef position and staff will no longer be provided given the above tragic facts. The POTUS and Family will only have UberEats, GrubHub, ChowCow, and DealDash…… and a jar of Skippy extra-chunky and Welch’s Grape Jelly and White Wonderbread in the pantry from now on for all meals, including State Dinners. Plastic cutlery will be provided by Ralphs on Pennsylvania Avenue. Thank you for your understanding” – Surviving White House Cooking Staff
Drowning is obviously an occupational hazard for White House chefs
Uncanny–the date of that article is 24th June 2015…
And he drowned in the Desert …go figure ..
He drowned in the dessert?
Chipmunk Cheeks prior to cankle onset.
He brewed beer from the Honey from big mikes garden ?
Did the WH have bee hives on the property ?
Osama and wife were on the island but not at the residence.
I can smell the fishy smell all the way down in Florida.
He asked Big Mike for more honey. Hussein thought he called Mike ‘honey’.
His days had been numbered ever since…
Or the halfrican moslem homosexual and his husband “Michelle” invited the chef over and he wasn’t into what they were cooking up, and the rest is thistory…
One less now. To answer your question Sundance.
Tafari Campbell isn’t the only person who has died inexplicably in Obama’s orbit.
Did you know that the woman who verified the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate, Loretta Fuddy, was the only person to die in a plane crash in Hawaii in 2013.
Everyone else survived.
They probably took advice from Hitlery. She was an expert in silencing anyone who may have been a threat to her power. Must be a list around somewhere.
It was on the server in her bathroom.
There is an entire Obama Dead List just like the Clinton List. AND…the list is growing!
So all of the expert armchair sleuths on this site went off on Reggie Love…lol
The age 43 is the age of Jug Ears Boyfriend, Reggie. It was an easy shot to take, and many don’t know FILTHY Obama is a closet smoker, and a closet Gearbox.
Now you know.
Closet gearbox!!!! Good one. First tme I’ve heard that one
Manual or automatic?
What do you mean by “gearbox”?
Barrack get off on Reggie. Unknown if it is exclusive or Big Mike lends a hand.
I wonder if White House Chefs under Obama are well versed in Spirit Cooking and love Island hopping.👌👌😉
#died suddenly
It’s baffling.
Black guy paddle-boarding alone at night wearing all black with no life jacket? Some un-named person claims to have seen him go under. The Obamas on the island but “not at home.” I expect they will find a plastic baggie with no fingerprints or in his pocket and he will be hastily cremated.
I bet he was high as a kite.I mean who goes paddle boarding at NIGHT?
Is paddle boarding a euphemism for something else–eg water boarding?
Look for 3 to 20 keys of something floating nearby… if not already picked up
Or inboarding.
Tafari Campbell does not know how to swim. Yet he allegedly goes paddle boarding at night. His hat and paddle board are found on Sunday and his body is found on Monday in deep water.
Does this story make sense?
Not deep water. Eight. Feet.
Also, not night. It’s summer. Sun’s not down til after 9 PM.
Deep enough to be well over his head.
No:
Tafari Campbell Loved To Swim
I watched the video. He is NOT a proficient swimmer. His technique sucked and he was struggling immediately, AND he had fins on his feet in the video, in a pool. Guaranteed you drop him in open water without a floatation device or fins, he’s going down.
I watched that video. He can’t swim for shit. A couple of strokes and he was underwater. The man could barely move.
To describe him as a “proficient swimmer” is ludicrous.
Right, here’s another one, watch the whole thing, the dead primate put these videos up, not me, pal.
https://nitter.nl/CollinRugg/status/1683631230754119680#m
He is fighting the water the entire time
I fish with black fellow who can’t swim on my bass boat .
He won’t even sit on the back or front chair .
At night ,no vest ,on a paddle board .not happening!
He wasn’t alone. But I guess the guy he was with couldn’t swim, either. Cuz he saw him go down in 8 feet of water, but couldn’t/didn’t rescue him:
From the Chicago Sun Times:
“…….The search started at 7:46 p.m. Sunday, when Martha’s Vineyard police and fire agencies responded to a call of “a male paddle boarder who had gone into the water, appeared to briefly struggle to stay on the surface, and then submerged and did not resurface. … Another paddle boarder was on the pond with him at the time and observed him go under the water.”……
and observed him go under the water.”😉
Guess he saw or heard something he shouldn’t have. That’s the price of doing business with commie scum.
This is no coincidence.
He saw Big Mike’s fishing tackle
LOL
Bait and Switch?
Witness protection?
Someone posted somewhere else a clip of Jesse Waters (Fox news) reporting on Obama’s chef found drowned, and Clinton’s chef also died…how strange
Are the Clintons giving pointers to the Obamas?
Hillary does subcontract work, like she did SOS
Someone saw Michael’s weiner.
Distinct possibility. Rummaging around the fridge in her kimono, looking for a late-night snack…
Michael showed his weiner and forced him to sit on his laptop.
I guess we’ll know for sure if there’s a coverup if Trump’s indicted tomorrow or this week.
A few things. I know this area well, have vacationed there a dozen plus times – on Great Pond, and have canoed on the pond. It’s tidal. The barriers are not continuous so there’s current in the pond at predictable times. Take a novice paddler, add in a late night venture and then unexpected current and you get a tragedy. RIP Tafari. FTR, Nantucket is the whitest place, at least in MA. The Vineyard is pretty diverse. Oak Bluffs is close to majority black, and there are lots of minority families in Edgartown, Vineyard Haven and West Tisbury.
Thank you for that perspective.
Oh no, the Kenyan has done it again!
Does Obama SCUBA dive?
5 Possibilities
vaccinedrugsalcoholbothObamacided
You left out ‘homosexual love polygon’…
Barack Obama’s chef Tafari Campbell drowns in paddle boarding accident near $12m Martha’s Vineyard home of ‘heartbroken’ ex-president
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12333171/Barack-Michelle-Obamas-personal-chef-identified-man-dead-paddle-boarding-accident-near-12m-Marthas-Vineyard-home.html
Why wasn’t he home with his wife and twin sons?
Who goes paddle boarding in the evening. That is when the big fish look for dinner.
Maybe the wife and twin sons were in a house on the estate. Do we know otherwise?
Maybe the wife and twin sons were at his home waiting for Tafari to come back from his safari?
Did the boytoy ingest too much fentanyl
Let me guess……..He (Obama) just found out about it reading the news like everybody else.
Wait for HBO to call for an investigation … hmm
What ever …. How ever
RIP
and blessings for his family
“The 45-year-old vanished Sunday evening while he was out with another paddleboarder on Edgartown Great Pond”
WHO was the other paddle boarder?
Who then is this same paddleboarder who called from the OBM’s residence who watches Tafari while he was drowning and then call? He needs to be questioned.
And now we have news that Tafari is still actually working for the OBMs. Report says he was visiting. What gives? Who can verify? If that is so, well it’s getting interestingly intriguing. Do not the OBMs always vacation there in the summers especially. And they aren’t there but the phone is available for use;(who uses a residence’s phone service when most people uses their always-with-them cellulars? And, are there and what other staff or secret service personnel are there?
The problem with rescuing someone in dark water, the ocean or a river is that it is difficult to see them once they go under. Unless you see them go down you have no idea where they are located.
FBI agent
The ghost of Teddy Kennedy driving an Olds Delta 88 must be mucking around up there.
Sounds fishy no pun intended
The Clintons have had this problem for years: people around them suddenly “getting dead.”
Looks like the Obama body count is starting…
More likely is that he was jabbed and died suddenly. And I’m sure the doctors will be baffled.
When you work for evil…….
Hmmmmmm.
FLASHBACK: Former Bush/Clinton White House Chef Drowned in 2015
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/flashback-former-bush-clinton-white-house-chef-drowned/
So chefs swim with the fishes 🤔
This has Ken Buck written all over it… he outta prison yet?
Two white House Chefs can only survive two or three administrations —whereas Fauci has been around for seven.
He didn’t know how to swim, according to his IG. Who goes out paddle-boarding in a giant lake or pond by himself if he doesn’t know how to swim. Not adding up.
Citizenfreepress.com curated the twitter link below saying Tafari posted a video of himself swimming.
If the link doesn’t work look at today’s citizenfreepress.com.
Swimming? With fins on? That is NOT swimming. When he does use his arms it’s only for a few strokes, not enough to get him to shore, should the need arise.
He had a paddle board to hang onto, unless he somehow lost consciousness.
The point is, he definitely knew how to swim and was comfortable in the water. None of which means he didn’t drown accidentally, but the “black men can’t swim” explanation doesn’t hold water. Pardon the pun.
How‘s Michelle’s chef that helped ruined school doing?
Sam Kass not only their personal chef but senior adviser for nutrition policy, giving him a seat where admin officials updated food labels to new requirements for healthier school lunches
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/obamas-personal-chef-helped-shape-nutrition-agenda-leaves-white-house-6-years
Chicago Sun Times article.
He drowned in 8 feet of water. And another Paddle Boarder saw him go down, but apparently couldn’t rescue him from 8 ft. under?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/7/24/23806165/obama-chef-drowns-marthas-vineyard-tarari-campbell
Was a hammer and tighty whities involved?
The Obama’s are jealous of the Clinton’s count!
They better come up with a good explanation of how that body ended up so deep in the water?
Yeah, 8 feet of water is really deep…
He probably asked Michelle how she liked her meat. A simple misunderstanding led to a “boating accident.”
May the deceased, who likely served Da Barak in more than one way and more than one dish, find his peace near Mary Jo Kopechne, Donald Young, Vince Foster, Seth Rich, and other “beneficiaries” of being too “close” to the ClintOBidens.
PS Hopefully Kal Penn is being careful.
I’m glad I didn’t say anything too insensitive earlier. Did I?
In the old medieval times, the King’s food had to be tasted.
In the murderous DemoKKKrat America, it is the chefs who should have their blood pressure checked, early and often, before being pushed… sorry, before “taking a swim”.
Voluntarily, 0f course.
Here is a video of the chef swimming laps in a pool, four years ago.
So glad to see this because I thought he couldn’t swim, believed a wrong post somewhere. Thanks Healther Mullins.
That is not swimming, it is fighting the water to make it to the other side before you drown.
this puts the drowning theory to rest….
looks like ccp-opinko’s obamas are competing with satanic hillary & bill demons…
Is this the Chef for whom BO flew across the country, to attend his wedding? IIRC BO was in Hawaii and flew back to DC to attend this man’s wedding ceremony?
I know I would be pretty tight with my personal chef for me and my family! He or she would know alot olabought us!
Reggie Love a miss.
WUT?
Hussein and Mike asked him to stay as their personal chef because they loved the way he prepared and served them his tube steak….
Rumor has it, the halfrican moslem homosexual’s husband “MIchelle” is into collecting ‘butterflies’, his nickname for dudes who he likes to pin and mount…
My goo0dness. The man’s body is barely cold and there’s all this gossiping going on.
Too bad you never knew all the gossip going on when that body was still hot…
There are is an elite black community in Oak Bluffs, on the Vineyard, that has summered on the Island for generations.
Barack Hussein Obama’s gay lover? He had one while attending Occidental College in California.
michael most have left the RR door open and got caught standing…
When I think of a “pond” I think of a small body of water, but from the picture what I see looks much bigger.
Also, can we stop the fairy tale talk of ‘Michelle’s famous garden’? We all know she’d never get her hands dirty doing such peasant work.
I’m sorry that a young family man is gone too soon. May the good Lord take care of his family and comfort them.
I wonder just how many black guys in Chicago just decide to go out for a swim? I live in FL and many can’t swim here. There are sharks and rocks in Marsha’s Vineyard!
I have to ask, Was Hillary there?
He died by accident. Not suicide by two bullet holes to the back of his head. Her calling card. lol
That too!
They said he was a great swimmer, so who know?
EXACTLY!