Exclusive: 'Ms. TayIor,' 26, is identified
as the staffer who was paddle boarding
with Barack Obama's chef Tafari Campbell
in unsealed Secret Service records, that
also describe the chaotic scene as agents
scrambled to save him
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Shawn Cohen
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/14/2023 9:00:34 PM
Newly-released records from the Secret Service show the chaotic early moments as agents scrambled to try and rescue Barack Obama's personal chef in Martha's Vineyard, struggling to get a motor boat into the murky water with just 15 minutes of daylight.
Agents tried but failed to get two motorboats on the property working, at least one of them belonging to the Secret Service, before they successfully started a third boat belonging to the groundskeeper.
But it was already too late. Tafari Campbell, 45, never surfaced the night of July 23, and his body was pulled from Edgartown Great Pond the following day.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 12/14/2023 9:11:38 PM (No. 1617433)
I don't believe any of it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/14/2023 9:28:43 PM (No. 1617445)
SO how did the Secret Service botch this? Oh, they work for OBummer.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 12/14/2023 9:47:15 PM (No. 1617452)
Sounds like Ted Kennedy. Such a hero but to no avail. BS.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/14/2023 10:37:16 PM (No. 1617464)
Not buying it. Campbell had something on Obie. And the old, the-motorboats-wouldn't-start-excuse was used to make sure Campbell had assumed room temperature before help could arrive.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 12/14/2023 11:51:34 PM (No. 1617522)
Double "like" clicks for you, #3! Spot on!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/15/2023 12:36:50 AM (No. 1617531)
He did not deserve this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/15/2023 12:46:22 AM (No. 1617541)
Barry is an awful creature. May he rot in hell.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/15/2023 1:55:43 AM (No. 1617562)
Doesn't anybody swim any more? Early reports said the guy was very close to the shore. Take off your polyester suit and wing tips and go in after him. Why were the two sullen sisters rushed off to the airport to get them out of town? How did Obie get his ugly mug all banged up and his hands cut?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
smokincol 12/15/2023 5:04:25 AM (No. 1617615)
the said " ... Barack Obama's chef Tafari Campbell ... " was clintonized by comrade mullah obama for one simple reason
- he knew too much
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
msjena 12/15/2023 8:00:39 AM (No. 1617688)
I don't understand how someone who, according to accounts, could swim, would drown, after falling off of a paddleboard. Did he hit his head? Was he on some medication (or alcohol)? The board was close by to grab onto. Or he could have just floated on his back until help came. The delay by the SS is probably irrelevant because his companion said he never re-surfaced after falling off.
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Any "news" that comes 5 months after the fact cannot be trusted. We are kept in the dark about our political leaders by their ally, the political media, which investigates nothing.
No wonder facts about JFK's assassination are still being hidden.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/15/2023 8:08:26 AM (No. 1617692)
How the Sanctimonious Self Righteousness DimoKKKraps do live! Their "summer home"!
Of course, Judge Engorged of New York - the world's greatest real estate valuation expert - says it's only worth $320,000, so I guess it's pretty humble.
Let me see- should we fly the winter home chef to the summer home, or the Hawaii beach-beach home to the summer home on the beach (but it's not a beach home, it's a summer home) or should we send the staff of the every day home to the summer home while we're there and then have the beach-beach home cleaning staff and staff we borrow from Oprah go to the every day home while we make movies!!!!!
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Obviously a drowning caused by someone who overestimated his swimming ability. The question is did the Obama’s have appropriate sized life jackets available with the paddle boards? If not they probably face some liability if the paddle boards were theirs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/15/2023 9:22:40 AM (No. 1617732)
There are still a lot of oddities with his death. Apparently, no memorial service, no funeral, no burial. Did Tafari have any siblings or surviving parents? No one seems to know.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ragman73 12/15/2023 9:43:36 AM (No. 1617746)
Where's my can of BS spray? Too many things stink here. One boat failing to start? Two not working? Nice try.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/15/2023 10:37:41 AM (No. 1617786)
Did they find the Oldsmobile yet?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/15/2023 10:54:53 AM (No. 1617798)
Someone knew to much...and this story is just a story...not fact...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
akudaq 12/15/2023 11:31:23 AM (No. 1617830)
I'm not up to date on this, so bear with me, please. Could the chef have had a "clot" attack and not been able to save himself? Were autopsy reports available to discern this?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 12/15/2023 11:34:51 AM (No. 1617835)
Obama's "chef" okaaay.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
velirotta 12/15/2023 12:29:07 PM (No. 1617863)
A guy drowns while paddle boarding. Why does this continue to be BIG news?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NotaBene 12/15/2023 12:55:49 PM (No. 1617888)
I keep getting posting interruptus when I write more than two lines. Please fix the program.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 12/15/2023 1:44:08 PM (No. 1617932)
Wasn't Jesse Watters on this story? Sounds fishy to me.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 12/15/2023 4:06:06 PM (No. 1618025)
#4, you had a typo there . . . I believe you meant 'in' not 'on'.
4 people like this.
Will we ever know the truth?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/15/2023 6:30:37 PM (No. 1618145)
Since when is it the job of the Secret Service to protect the private chef of a former president?
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"Ms. Taylor"? Just who is that supposed to be? Taylor Swift?
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