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"Proficient swimmer": Tafari Campbell drowning death while paddleboarding comes under scrutiny
SK Pop ^ | 27/7/23 | Karishma Rao

Posted on 07/29/2023 2:36:36 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Netizens are questioning news reports that claimed that Tafari Campbell died from a paddleboarding accident. The 45-year-old worked as a personal chef to former US president Barack Obama. He died during his recent trip to Martha’s Vineyard. Internet users are finding it hard to believe that he died due to the water sport considering his proficiency in swimming.

Tafari Campbell was visiting Massachusetts Island from his Virginia home. He went missing in the Edgartown Great Pond waters on Sunday. Police endlessly searched for the food connoisseur until they received a call about a male paddleboarder who had reportedly “gone into the water.” The police announced that they were told that Campbell:

Their statement went on to add that Tafari Campbell was accompanied by another person who “observed him go under the water.”

The chef’s body was found eight feet underwater. It was also noted that he was not wearing a life jacket.

Law enforcement announced that the Obama family was not present at their residence at the time of Campbell’s accident.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: chef; drowning; epstein; jimmcdougal; obama; sethrich; tafaricampbell; vincefoster
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To: TexasGator
Later a video show him barely swimming.

Don't know what you saw but the video I observed showed him swimming very well in a lap pool........

41 posted on 07/29/2023 3:44:15 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: EEGator

I’ve always said the best way to survive a racial war in the US is to spend your summers swimming and sailing and spend your winters skiing.

Its a very minimalist DEI lifestyle.


42 posted on 07/29/2023 3:46:24 PM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: El Cid

It’s been over a half century since paddle boards were made out of solid wood. Paddle boards and surfboards are made out of Styrofoam shapes wrapped in a sheet of fiberglass. There is nothing dense or hard about a board unless maybe somebody bolted an accessory anvil to it. And they dent easily, One would have to do a serious wind-up to hurt ones self with a board. I did know a guy who got hit in the cheek with the pointy nose of a board and needed some repairs. A paddle board most likely doesn’t even have a skeg so there simply aren’t even any rigid edges to get hit with.

So I’m throwing the BS flag on the notion that a guy was fatally wounded/knocked out with a paddle board. Flat water, No surf, no speed involved, nothing.


43 posted on 07/29/2023 3:53:41 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: rackatoot
What was the need for a hat while paddleboarding at night?

For the same reason individuals not taught proper etiquette continue to wear their hats into restaurants......

Once upon a time I would have called that redneck ignorance but now I consider that just common ignorance......

44 posted on 07/29/2023 3:54:31 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: El Cid

someone just posted a pic on TS of odumbo with the fingers on his right hand bandaged.....hmmmmmm


45 posted on 07/29/2023 4:05:11 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: OldWarBaby
A glass jaw?
Thanks for your feedback regarding the paddle-board 'lethality'. Still, the most suspicious part about this whole matter is that the 'authorities' don't release just basic info. E.g., 'xxx was the other paddle-board partner; the phone call came from yyy.'
I respect people's privacy, but when a person working for the ex-President (and supposedly a friend) dies on the ex-President's property - a lot of this privacy should be forfeited. The taxpayers are paying for their private security detail, and we 'also' paid for his various palaces. Unlike President Trump, President Obama never worked an honest day in his life - and he's just living off the largess of political graft (i.e., money from the taxpayers).
46 posted on 07/29/2023 4:07:23 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Eleutheria5
Tafari Campbell "I'll send an email to the Press and tell them I saw... Ow!"

Think Blazing Saddles.....

47 posted on 07/29/2023 4:13:48 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Eleutheria5

I read on the Interweb that the chef snapped a pic of Big Mike’s junk the day he drowned…


48 posted on 07/29/2023 4:14:37 PM PDT by 43north (America doesn't need an election. We need an exorcism.)
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To: EEGator
What’s the deal with blacks and swimming? Every single white person I know can swim.

Here near Seattle, the "narrative" is that black adults (boomer generation) could not afford country clubs to learn to swim, so their kids and now the present black youth all have a fear of water and did not learn to swim.

As a sidebar - growing up in WA state in the 50's, it was manditory to show some swimming proficiancy to graduate from high school. In grades 3 to 5, all had school sponsored swimming lessons (part of the water proofing of a generation that has so much water around us).

49 posted on 07/29/2023 4:15:37 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Steely Tom

The chef’s body was found eight feet underwater.


I grew up with a close friend who was A-A. This statement confirms something he told me.


Are you saying it’s easier to dig deeper in water?


50 posted on 07/29/2023 4:17:27 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: llevrok

It’s a necessary life skill.

Always be able to run, swim, throw something hard, pick up something heavy, create shelter, find water/food, etc.

Maybe mix some of Psychology’s Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs with real world applications.


51 posted on 07/29/2023 4:22:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Eleutheria5

Isn’t that the place where Teddy practiced diving?


52 posted on 07/29/2023 4:27:10 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Noumenon

Didn’t Barry and Big Mike have a big propane tank installed at their humble retreat?


53 posted on 07/29/2023 4:27:44 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: nesnah

50 posts and no mention of shallow water blackout. And the great pond he drowned in is brackish, mostly fresh water. There are also spots with quicksand.

Just saying


54 posted on 07/29/2023 4:39:15 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I remember Fuddy. Obviously a Clintun suicide.


55 posted on 07/29/2023 4:39:36 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: mass55th
…when he fell, and became unconscious, or disoriented..."

At first I thought you were referring to Mitch McConnell.

56 posted on 07/29/2023 4:43:57 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot comtly left out his party affiliation: e soon enough!)
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To: Eleutheria5
NO ONE is going to REALLY LOOK into this "drowning"!! It's the OBAMA FAMILY...the SAINTS of the USA!

EVERY aspect of this drowning has CHANGED since the first reporting!!

57 posted on 07/29/2023 4:52:49 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

There’s NO INVESTIGATION!


58 posted on 07/29/2023 4:55:15 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Eagles6

Of course they did. We are the ones who are supposed to starve and freeze in the dark.


59 posted on 07/29/2023 5:00:31 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: gundog
Seems like the type that ought to wear a life jacket.

That would have been "acting white."

-PJ

60 posted on 07/29/2023 5:18:06 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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