“There is this guy, who is introduced to me as Barack Obama. I gave him $250 to buy some coke, and right after he pulled out a pipe and smoked (crack). I started stroking her thigh to see where it would lead, and what I hoped happened. On Wednesday evening, former Fox host Tucker Carlson broadcast on X (Twitter) an interview with an American claiming to have sex with Barack Obama in 1999. Are these so-called revelations credible? Is the former US president secretly bisexual and did the media bury this testimony 15 years ago as Carlson suggests? 20 minutes make the point.
FAKE OFF
Tucker Carlson pulls out a file from 2008, which was widely discredited at the time. In January, as the Democratic primary is about to begin, a stranger, Larry Sinclair, 46, claims in a video posted on YouTube that he took drugs and had sex with Barack Obama nine years earlier. Nobody paid much attention until Sinclair held a press conference with a lawyer in Washington in June. He resumes his accusations, claiming in particular to have performed oral sex in a limousine on Barack Obama, then local senator from Michigan, then in a hotel room the next day.
The Politico site then reveals that this man has a criminal record in three states for multiple scams. Counterfeit, counterfeit and use of counterfeit checks… The list is long. Sinclair was notably sentenced to 16 years in prison in Colorado for impersonating a victim to steal his tax returns (tax refund).
Challenged to take a lie detector test, Sinclair complies. The results – which are not admissible in court but are often used by police – conclude that the 40-year-old probably lied.
conspiratorial book
Larry Sinclair then self-publishes a book that sinks into conspiracy. He claims the polygraph results were rigged, accusing Obama campaign manager David Axelrod of paying the expert $750,000. He also suggests that Barack Obama had the choir director of his Chicago parish, Donald Young, shot dead in December 2007, to conceal, he claims, their homosexual affair.
Larry Sinclair then falls into oblivion until today. Why is Tucker Carlson bringing up this old discredited case? Probably because a letter written by Barack Obama to an ex from college in 1982 resurfaced last month. According to New York Post, the former president evoked at 21 years of homosexual fantasies, writing in particular: “I make love to men daily, but in my imagination. »
Freed from the meager journalistic constraints that he still had at Fox News, Tucker Carlson brings neither contradictory, nor corroboration, nor even the slightest new element to the case. But he has already succeeded: the video, helped by a response from Elon Musk, already exceeded three million views on Wednesday evening.