“There’s this guy who’s introduced to me as Barack Obama. I gave him $250 to buy some coke and right after he took out a pipe and smoked (crack). I started stroking his thigh to see where it would go and what I hoped happened. » On Wednesday evening, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson broadcast an interview on X (Twitter) with an American who claimed to have had sexual relations with Barack Obama in 1999. Are these so-called revelations credible? Is the former US President secretly bisexual and did the media bury this statement 15 years ago, as Carlson suspects? 20 minutes takes stock.
FAKE OFF
Tucker Carlson published a dossier from 2008 that was widely discredited at the time. In January, as the Democratic primary was set to begin, an unknown man, Larry Sinclair, 46, claimed in a video posted on YouTube that he had taken drugs and had a sexual relationship with Barack Obama nine years earlier. No one really paid attention until Sinclair held a press conference with a lawyer in Washington in June. He repeats his allegations, specifically claiming that he performed fellatio on Barack Obama, then a local senator from Illinois, in a limousine and in a hotel room the next day.
The website Politico then reveals that this man has multiple fraud convictions in three states. Fake checks, forgeries and the use of counterfeits… the list goes on. Specifically, Sinclair was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Colorado for impersonating a victim to steal his tax returns.
Sinclair is challenged to pass the lie detector test for the promise of a big jackpot and follows through on the task. The results – which are not admissible in court but are widely used by police – conclude that the forty-year-old was probably lying.
Conspiracy book
Larry Sinclair then self-published a book that resulted in a conspiracy. He claims the polygraph results were manipulated and accuses Obama campaign manager David Axelrod of paying the expert $750,000. He also suggests that Barack Obama had his Chicago church choir director, Donald Young, shot in December 2007 to, he claims, cover up their homosexual affair.
Larry Sinclair was then forgotten to this day. Why is Tucker Carlson bringing up this old, discredited case? No doubt because a letter Barack Obama allegedly wrote to a former college student in 1982 resurfaced last month. According to the New York Post, the former president spoke of homosexual fantasies when he was 21, specifically writing, “I love men every day, but in my imagination.” »
Freed from the meager journalistic constraints he had at Fox News, Tucker Carlson brings neither contradiction nor confirmation nor the slightest new element to the matter. But he has already succeeded: the video, supported by a reaction from Elon Musk, reached the three million view mark on Wednesday evening.