Obama family’s personal chef dies in paddleboarding accident

The body of 45-year-old Tafari Campbell, the Obama family's longtime personal chef who worked in the White House, has been recovered after he drowned while paddleboarding near the family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY.

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[cynnx]

you could see from the video that he was a good swimmer, there is no way he died paddleboarding in a
There is a lot more to this that's missing.

[B-ROCK]

Poor brother opened the wrong door at the wrong time and seen Big Mike.

[iloveanari]

The dude seem so unemotional attached about something he allegedly witnessed is beyond. But of course itll be covered up and forgot about to the media

[Igniting-Moments]

for someone who can swim and he could not recover in 8 feet deep water/? something smells fishy here...

[savinghistory]

He was visiting who? Said they were not there. Where was his wife? Something quite wrong with this picture. But it will get covered up.

[BrownBamaGirl]

When i first heard this story. I got a s bad uncomfortable feeling. I don't think we'll ever know the complete truth. Until judgement day. RIP

[blessed]

How someone that was a good swimmer drowned? So weird. So many people dying in a mysterious way 😱

[MarkMiller]

He saw something he wasn’t supposed to see

[ronnielbrown]

How do you drown in 8 ft of water a grown man all he got to do is jump up and he's good something don't sound right he must have seen something that he wasn't supposed to see it's it's funny how they do stuff in our face and expect us to believe it.

[imranbecks]

Those of us who has seen enough movies would know this was no accident 😏

[Donner]

I would not be a close employee of the Obamas or the Clintons.

[secretsauce]

Rumor has it he was attacked by a group of agressive wild turtles know to patrol the area...

[ericadame]

I wonder what the man saw? Maybe the $65, 000 in hot dogs 🌭 and pizza 🍕

[KingDavid]

I think it's weird that he went out that late at night with no gear . They are saying he was a trained swimmer. He must have felt completely safe. How sad.

[Cdlee-oohn]

crazy
bill clintons chef dies the same way

[goldinga]

Cant say no to barry. He wants some cake you give him some cake or else you can fees it to the fish!

[troglodyteemperor]

When love triangles go wrong, I hear big mike gets jealous. He got Hillary'd

[wchocobunny]

So... a dude that knows how to swim (and swim well), drowned in roughly 8 ft of water, and there information they are not releasing to the public? Its tragic and i feel wholeheartedly for his family.... but, something not right about this... if it was as simply as he died by drowning, why would ANY of it be withheld from the public? Whats really going on here?

[americast]

Last words by Tafari Campbell, "Mr. obama, I mean Mrs. Obama, I didn't hear or see anything".

[thestruggler]

Yeah, this was totally an "accident"...