No, former President Barack Obama didn’t reveal how his personal chef died

A recent Facebook post floats the idea that former President Barack Obama recently divulged new information about how his family’s personal chef died. 

"‘THEY ENDED HIM!’ Obama FINALLY reveals how personal chef drowned in MYSTERIOUS pond accident.mp4," reads the Sept. 11 post, which includes an eight-minute-plus video. 

But the video includes no such revelation.  

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Four Florida counties had “zero results” Oct. 26, and “something underhanded might be happening.”

Tafari Campbell, 45, drowned July 23 while paddleboarding in Edgartown Great Pond, near the Obamas’ house on Martha’s Vineyard, off the Massachusetts coast. Neither the former president nor former first lady Michelle Obama were home at the time, authorities said.  Massachusetts’ chief medical examiner’s office ruled the death an accidental drowning. 

Obama remembered Campbell in social media posts, writing that he "showed us what true character looks like" and said, "I’ll miss him every day." 

We found no evidence — in news reports or other credible sources — that Obama revealed that Campbell died in some other "mysterious" way.

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