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Barack Obama’s rise from little-known state senator to Democratic nominee is framed in the discussion as a culmination of a small group of Chicago donors backing him, funding his campaign, and paving the way for his ascent, with two years in the U.S. Senate spent preparing to run in 2008, culminating in his victory. The interviewer notes that the news media avoided answering basic questions about Obama’s life, beliefs, and origins during the 2008 campaign, instead labeling inquiries as conspiracy theories.
Larry Sinclair, who would later claim to have met Obama, appears in the studio. Sinclair recounts meeting Obama in 1999 in Illinois through a limousine driver he hired in Chicago. He explains he was in town for Lee Duke’s Naval Academy graduation and was seeking a party night in Chicago, specifically asking the driver if he knew anyone available. The driver, Jamere Motani of Five Star Limo, allegedly introduced Sinclair to a man whom Motani said was Barack Obama. Sinclair says he had never heard of Obama before and did not know he was a politician at the time; he asserts the driver knew Obama and described him as liking the same kind of partying Sinclair was seeking.
Sinclair describes going to a bar in Chicago with Obama, where Sinclair asked for something to wake up and was directed to cocaine. He states Obama said he knew where to get it, and they left to obtain it. He pays $250 for cocaine, and in the limo, Obama allegedly pulled out a pipe and began smoking crack; Sinclair says he then performed oral sex on Obama after initiating a physical advance. Sinclair recounts the driver’s partition being up and that the driver did not object. The night continued with another encounter the next day when Obama supposedly returned to Sinclair’s hotel, the Comfort Inn in Gurnee, Illinois, with more cocaine, and the pair repeated the same program, including another sexual encounter and further cocaine use.
Sinclair says he later left and Obama dropped him off at his hotel, but Obama then showed up the next day at Sinclair’s hotel for another encounter. Sinclair emphasizes he did not know Obama’s identity or political status at the time, and only realized who Obama was when he saw him at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004 and again in 2008. He asserts Obama used his real name, Barack, at the time of the encounters.
Afterward, Sinclair sought to contact the Obama campaign in late 2007, urging Barack Obama to acknowledge his cocaine use in the past, asking that Obama simply state, “I did coke and I’ve done it as recently as 1999.” He says he contacted David Axelrod’s office in Chicago with three letters but never mentioned the sexual encounter in 2007. He recounts receiving a call from someone he identifies as Donald Young, a gay choir director from Jeremiah Wright’s church, who claimed to be with the Obama campaign and said that the campaign would not acknowledge the sex and drug interaction. Young allegedly told Sinclair that he had known Obama for years and had an intimate relationship with him, and warned him to be careful because the Obama campaign would not acknowledge anything.
Sinclair describes Donald Young’s death in Chicago as a key piece of the narrative, stating Young was shot dead in his 2nd-floor apartment, with details that he says were publicly documented, and that Jeremiah Wright announced Young’s death early that morning. Norma Jean Young, Donald Young’s mother, is described as a former Chicago Police Department employee who believed Young’s death was to protect Barack Obama, and Lorraine Young, Donald’s sister, reportedly supported the claim that Young and Obama had been intimately close for years.
Sinclair asserts that he disclosed his full story in a YouTube video in January 2008, but that the video was deleted after YouTube gave access to his account to someone else, and his emails and Hotmail were allegedly compromised. He contends that reporters avoided the story due to pressure from Axelrod to destroy him and because outlets did not want to lose access to the Obama campaign. Sinclair claims Greta Van Susteren and Ben Smith covered the story unfavorably; he labels Ben Smith a “grifter” and accuses Politico of misrepresenting his career and status as a fugitive, while insisting he never hid his past.
In reflecting on Obama, Sinclair maintains Obama is a “grifter” who is power-hungry and believes Obama has influenced the Biden administration; he argues Obama’s presidency has pushed race relations backward and that Obama’s public persona masks transactional and sexual behaviors. He asserts that he grew up as a gay man in rural South Carolina and believes Obama’s campaign rhetoric contrasted with reality, noting Obama’s comments to supporters about fights and displaying a willingness to use race as a tool.
The conversation closes with Sinclair acknowledging the complexity of the situation, reiterating his claim that he had sex with Obama and that Donald Young’s calls and subsequent death are connected to the broader narrative about Obama’s past.