WND EXCLUSIVE
TRINITY CHURCH
MEMBERS REVEAL OBAMA SHOCKER!
'Matchmaker'
Rev. Jeremiah Wright 'provided cover for gays'
Published: 2 days ago October 4 2012
by JEROME R. CORSI
After nearly four years in office, many Americans still
express frustration that much about Barack Obama remains a mystery as
establishment media remain incurious about the Democratic president, while
seemingly ready to dispatch crack investigative teams at a moment’s notice to
probe into the personal lives of Republican figures such as Sarah Palin.
Largely ignored in 2008 was research by the Hillary Clinton campaign based on
contacts developed with members of the church Obama attended for two decades,
Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. This is the first of a series of
articles WND has developed from months of in-person interviews with church
members who have known Barack and Michelle Obama over many years. The sources
requested that their identities not be published because they believe their
disclosures would put their security at risk.
NEW YORK – Ten years ago, the New York Times reported on a
growing underground subculture in the black community known as Down Low,
comprised largely of men who secretly engage in homosexual activity while
living “straight” lives in public. It’s within that subtext that
opposition researchers for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign began
investigating rumors that Rev. Jeremiah Wright was running a “matchmaking
service” for members of his Trinity United Church of Christ known as the Down
Low Club, which included Barack Obama.
Over the past several months, WND investigators have
interviewed a number of members of the church who claim the president benefited
from Wright’s efforts to help black men who engage in homosexual activity
appear respectable in black society by finding them a wife. The 2003 New
York Times story, “Double Lives on the Down Low,” said that though many black
men reject “a gay culture they perceive as white and effeminate,” they “have
settled on a new identity with its own vocabulary and customs and its own name:
Down Low.” The Times said that while “there are black men who are openly
gay, it seems that the majority of those having sex with men still lead secret
lives, products of a black culture that deems masculinity and fatherhood as a
black man’s primary responsibility – and homosexuality as a white man’s
perversion.”
The Down Low Club at Trinity “doesn’t have meetings, and it
isn’t like the Rotary Club,” a source identified for this article as “Carolyn”
explained to a WND investigator in Chicago. “It was more that Wright
served as a matchmaker,” said Carolyn, a 20-year member of Trinity who has
played a role in church administration and knows the Obamas personally. “He
kept his eye on the young guys coming up in Trinity,” she said, “and if he
spotted someone that acted or looked gay, then Wright would give them kind of a
guidance counselor-type direction on how to keep down low – how to do the
things they wanted to do, but then also getting married and looking
‘respectable’ – being part of black society.”
To Trinity insiders, the Down Low Club was simply known as
“the program.” “That’s the terminology. At Trinity, you’re urged to ‘get
with the program,’” explained a male beneficiary of the Down Low Club. “What
that means is it’s OK to go ahead and have sex with men just as long as you
‘get with the program’ and marry a woman, somebody no straight guy would want
to marry.” The wife, the Down Low Club member explained, is “your
‘beard,’ your cover – so you can look like you’re living a straight life, even
though you’re not.” The male source was a “computer consultant” who
claims not to know “scratch” about computers. But “getting with the program” at
Trinity meant he could keep living a “gay” life and receive lots of computer
consulting work thrown his way by Trinity, as long as he was willing to marry
an unattractive woman who otherwise might have ended up a lonely spinster with
no means to provide for living.
Carolyn explained that for many black families, attending
Trinity was a way out of poverty. “Trinity was a chance to network,” she said.
“The stuff preached was hateful, but about 70 percent of those who go there
ignore the radical rhetoric and just trying to get ahead.” Carolyn said Trinity
“helped a lot of blacks get successful and connected.” “That’s what Wright did
for Obama,” she claimed. “He connected Obama in the community, and he helped
Obama hide his homosexuality.”
Openly homosexual author and commentator Keith Boykin, a
former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, mentions Obama’s former
pastor, Wright, on pages 264-265 of his 2005 book “Beyond the Down Low: Sex,
Lies, and Denial in Black America.” While Boykin doesn’t refer to the Down Low
Club by name, he regards Wright as among a small group of ministers who are
“coming to grips with sexuality and opening up a dialogue with heterosexuals,
homosexuals, and bisexuals in the pews.”
Chicago-based author, businessman, speaker and HIV/AIDS activist
J.L. King wrote a controversial book in 2005 called “On the Down Low: A Journey
into the Lives of ‘Straight’ Black Men who Sleep with Men.” He was a
guest on Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago-based TV show in 2004, which described him
this way: “J.L. King had a life most would envy. He married his high school
sweetheart, had two healthy children and was on the fast track to success. But,
unbeknownst to his family and friends, he had a dark secret—he was living on
the down low.”
Remember the choir director
Carolyn and the other members of Trinity who provided
statements corroborating her testimony were insistent that WND conceal their
identities as a condition of being interviewed. “I’m still scared to discuss
any of this,” Carolyn said. “At Trinity, if you even hint at talking about
Obama being gay, you are reminded of our dear departed choir director,” she
said. “He was killed, and it wasn’t a robbery. The Christmas presents weren’t
touched. The TV was not taken, nothing in the apartment was missing.”
Carolyn’s reference was to Donald Young, the 47-year-old
homosexual choirmaster at Trinity who died of multiple gunshot wounds in his
Chicago apartment Dec. 24, 2007. Young’s murder was preceded Nov. 17,
2007, with the execution-style murder of 25-year-old Larry Bland, another black
gay member of Trinity United. He also was murdered in his home, dying of
multiple gunshot wounds according to his death certificate. Just two days after
the murder of Young, a third openly “gay” member of Wright’s church, Nate Spencer,
reportedly died of septicemia, pneumonia and AIDS.
Sensational charges
As WND reported last month, a prominent member of Chicago’s
homosexual community claims Obama’s participation in the “gay” bar and
bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were aware of his lifestyle
were shocked when he ran for president and finally won the White House.
In April, WND reported a federal judge dismissed a libel case against
Larry Sinclair, a homosexual who claimed Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign had
paid to rig a polygraph test regarding Sinclair’s sensational charge that he
had sex and used cocaine twice with Obama while Obama was an Illinois state
senator. Sinclair tells his story in “Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair:
Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder.”
WND also reported former radical activist John Drew has said
that when he met Obama when Obama was a student at Occidental College, he
thought Obama and his then-Pakistani roommate were “gay” lovers. In
addition, rumors have swirled around Obama’s relationship with his personal
aide and former “body man,” Reggie Love, who resurfaced on the eve of the
Republican National Convention to support his old boss. Love resigned from the
White House in November 2011 after compromising photographs of him as a college
student received wide circulation.
WND also has documented in two separate articles, here and
here, that Obama wore a gold band on his wedding ring finger from the time he
attended Occidental College through his student days at Harvard Law School.
Shocking phone call
Sinclair gave an affidavit to the Chicago Police Department
regarding contacts he says he had with Young just prior to Young’s murder.
According to Sinclair’s affidavit, published in its entirety beginning on page
56 of his book, he contacted Obama’s presidential campaign in September 2007.
Sinclair says he requested that Obama correct claims he made about when he
stopped abusing drugs to reflect use of crack cocaine during their sex
encounters in November 1999.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama had stated
famously he stopped using marijuana and cocaine in college, implying his drug
abuse ended when he had completed his first two years of college at Occidental
in Los Angeles. Sinclair explained that when he made contact with the
Obama campaign in September 2007, he provided call back numbers in case the
campaign wanted to get in touch with him. Then, in late September or
early October 2007, as Sinclair stated in his affidavit, he received a call
from a male identifying himself as “Mr. Young,” who stated he was responding to
calls Sinclair had made to the Obama campaign.
“This first call shocked me in that this ‘Mr. Young’ asked
me why I had not asked Senator Obama to disclose sexual encounters I had with
Mr. Obama in 1999,” Sinclair’s affidavit reads. “I was shocked as I had never
mentioned to the campaign or anyone working for the campaign any sexual
encounters. The call ended with Mr. Young stating I would hear from someone in
a few days.” Sinclair claims it was in a second call from “Mr. Young”
that he began to suspect the man had been sexually intimate with Obama.
Sinclair said he drew that conclusion “by the tone of the conversation” and by
its “sexual nature.”
In late October 2007, Sinclair received a text message from
“Mr. Young” stating Young “was intimately involved with Senator Obama and that
Obama was discussing with him and his pastor how to publicly acknowledge
Senator Obama’s drug use in 1999.” The text message also indicated Obama
wanted to make sure Sinclair had not discussed the sexual encounters or drug
use with any media at that time. In November 2007, Sinclair received a
second text message from “Mr. Young,” advising him that Obama would publicly
correct his statement as to the last time he used drugs and that Sinclair did
not need to concern himself with publicly disclosing it. Then, in early
December 2007, Sinclair received his last contact with “Mr. Young,” with Young
making it clear Obama had no intention of acknowledging publicly his use of
crack cocaine in 1999.
After Young was murdered, Sinclair had several contacts with
Young’s family. “In several telephone conversations with his sisters, brothers,
nieces and others, I was reassured that the family of Donald Young believed he
was murdered to protect Barack Obama,” Sinclair wrote. “It also became clear,
right from the start, that members of the Young family were truly fearful of
speaking out publicly. To this day they fear for their own personal,
physical safety.”
On July 17, 2010, the supermarket tabloid The Globe
published an interview with Norma Jean Young, the 76-year-old mother of the
slain choirmaster, in which she expressed fear that her son was murdered to
protect Obama. “What was the cause of my son’s death?” Norma Jean Young asked
in the Globe interview. “I’m very suspicious that it may have been related to
Obama. Donald and Obama were very close friends. Whatever went on with this is
very private. I am suspicious of a cover-up!” She insisted there is “more
to the story,” calling on Chicago police to ramp up their investigation.
“I do believe they are shielding somebody or protecting somebody,” she
told The Globe. Asked who would benefit from a cover-up, Norma Jean Young
said, “It could be anyone, including Obama.” Shortly after the Globe
interview was published, Norma Jean Young left Chicago and lived for a while in
Peoria, Ill. Her current residence is unknown.
The murders of Donald Young and Larry Bland remain today
open cases of unsolved homicide.
JESSE JACKSON,
WRIGHT 'ARRANGED' OBAMA MARRIAGE
Chicago sources
claim president was part of dark subculture
This is the second of a series of articles WND has developed
from months of confidential in-person interviews with members of Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago who have known Barack and Michelle Obama on a
personal basis over many years. In the first story, members of the church
claimed Barack Obama benefited from Wright’s “Down Low Club,” part of a
documented underground subculture in which black men who engage in homosexual
activity marry to maintain respectability in public. Because of the personal
risk, the sources perceived they were taking to speak candidly about the
president and his family, their identities have been masked.
As a young single woman, Michelle Robinson was a fixture in
the home of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson who, along with Rev. Jeremiah
Wright, “arranged” her marriage to Barack Obama according to sources in Chicago
who know the couple. “If you want to understand Michelle Obama, you’ve
got to go back to Jesse Jackson,” a woman called “Robyn” for this article told
WND. Robyn, who spent several years working for Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH
Coalition, explained to a WND investigator in Chicago that Michelle Obama “just
about grew up in Jesse Jackson’s home.” “Jesse should have charged her rent and
board for the amount of time she spent in his home instead of her own,” she
said. Jackson’s daughter, Santita, is still one of Michelle’s best friends.
Santita and Jesse Jr. call her “sis,” short for “sister.”
Santita Jackson said in an interview just before Obama took
office in 2008 that she has known Michelle Obama since they car-pooled together
as high school classmates. Santita was maid of honor at Michelle and Barack
Obama’s wedding, and she is the godmother to the Obama’s older daughter, Malia.
Robyn also pointed out Jesse Jackson Jr., a Democratic Party member of
the U.S. House from Illinois, served as the national co-chairman of Obama’s
2008 presidential campaign. “It all relates back to Trinity and to the
Jesse Jackson orbit of blacks here in Chicago who gave Obama legitimacy and
helped him establish his identity as a black man,” Robyn explained. “The
political left wanted to push a black to the presidency, and the key operatives
in the Democratic Party decided long ago it wouldn’t be Jesse Jackson (Sr.).
Then Jesse wanted it to be his son, but Jesse Jr. has serious drug and mental
problems that the world knows about now. These were also known about in the past,
and Jesse Jr. was never going to be the black president. So, the political left
then chose Obama.”
In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times in August, Sandi
Jackson admitted her husband, Jesse Jr., was “completely debilitated by
depression,” which has forced him to put his Washington home for sale to pay
his medical bills, including his treatment at the Mayo Clinic. He has been
absent from Congress since mid-June, putting his House seat at risk in the
November election.
They met where?
Obama’s retelling of an event most spouses remember
precisely for the rest of their lives has caused confusion. Exactly when and
how did he first meet Michelle Robinson? Before a speech at the New
Economic School graduation in Moscow on July 7, 2009, Obama stated he first met
Michelle in school. “I don’t know if anybody else will meet their future
wife or husband in class like I did, but I’m sure you’re all going to have
wonderful careers,” he said, according to Newsweek. The problem is that
Michelle Obama earned her degree from Harvard Law School in 1988, and Obama did
not arrive at Harvard Law School until that fall, graduating three years later
in 1991. The commonly accepted story is that they first met in Chicago in
1989, when Barack took a summer job as an intern at the Chicago law firm Sidley
Austin, and Michelle, who was employed as a lawyer at the firm, was assigned to
be his mentor.
WND has reported Allen Hulton, the U.S. postal carrier who
delivered mail to the parents of Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers in a
Chicago suburb, met Obama in the summer of 1989, while Obama was an intern at
Sidley Austin. In 1991, during their engagement to be married, top Obama
adviser Valerie Jarrett, then serving as the deputy chief of staff to Mayor
Richard M. Daley, hired Michelle to a job in the mayor’s office. “Michelle
hated working for the city even more than she hated working at Sidley Austin,”
Robyn told WND. “At the law firm, she lasted so short of a time because they
expected her to do work,” Robyn said. “At the City of Chicago, where she worked
under Mayor Daley, Michelle had one of those ‘Jesse hires’ positions. These are
patronage jobs where the recipients did nothing.”
Robyn claimed that while working for Daley, Michelle just
collected a check, doing very little work. “She sat at a desk and read the
newspaper all day,” Robyn said. “Sometimes she read romance novel paperbacks.
No one could say anything to her because she was a ‘Jesse hire.’ This meant if
anyone did complain about her not working, that Jesse Jackson would get mad at
Daley over that and there would be trouble.” Robyn said Michelle was
“essentially treated like she was Jesse’s daughter, and Michelle’s connections
in Chicago were a key to Obama’s rise to power.”
Connections
Political connections played throughout Michelle’s young
life in Chicago. Her father, Fraser C. Robinson III, who was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis in his 20s and eventually walked with the use of crutches,
was a volunteer Democratic precinct captain in addition to his job in the
boiler room at Chicago’s water purification plant. As Democratic precinct
captain, Robinson had power and influence, given his access to “street money”
the Daley machine freely handed out at that time in Chicago’s South Side to
make sure black voters turned out to vote for Democratic Party machine
candidates.
The Chicago sources told WND the selection of Michelle
Robinson for Obama was made by Jesse Jackson, and Jeremiah Wright agreed it
would be a good combination. “It all relates back to Trinity United and to the
Jesse Jackson orbit of blacks here in Chicago who gave Obama legitimacy and
helped him establish his identity as a black man ‘from Chicago,’” Robyn
explained. “Michelle came from a political family. She was intelligent even if
she didn’t really like to work. Wright knew Obama was gay, but he needed the
cover of a wife if he were to succeed in politics.”
A current member of Trinity church who has known the Obamas
for 20 years, “Carolyn,” confirmed Trinity “helped a lot of blacks get
successful and connected.” “That’s what Wright did for Obama,” she claimed. “He
connected Obama in the community, and he helped Obama hide his homosexuality.”
According to Robyn, Jackson explained to Michelle that she would live a
life of luxury once Obama was president, and that she never again would have to
worry about money. “Michelle was nasty, and most straight guys would
never be able to put up with her moods and temperament,” Robyn maintained. “But
Obama really didn’t care. Michelle had the credentials and she looked the part.
Obama wasn’t interested in her for sex.”
A source WND will identify as Hazel, a long-term member of
the Trinity congregation, insisted Obama remained sexually involved with men
after his marriage to Michelle. “I remember being at this function at Reverend
Wright’s house, one of the many parties Wright had, in 1996,” Hazel recalled.
“I went to the room where all the coats were on the bed because I wanted to
leave. I was surprised to find the light in the room was off and the coats were
on the floor,” she said. “Then I realized there were two men hugging and
kissing in there. One of those men was Obama. This was long before anybody knew
Obama, before he became famous like he is today.” Hazel has been telling this
story in Chicago since 1996.
Cushy job
When Jarrett left Mayor Daley’s office to head Chicago’s
Department of Planning and Development, she took Michelle with her. Jarrett
later became the chairwoman of the Chicago Medical Center, and Michelle again
got “a cushy job at the Chicago Medical Center with a salary of $317,000,” as
reported by Edward Klein on page 117 of his 2012 book “The Amateur: Barack
Obama in the White House.” New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor wrote in
2008 that Jarrett would have to be at the top of a list of people who helped
Barack and Michelle Obama. Nearly two decades ago, Ms. Jarrett swept the
young lawyers under her wing, introduced them to a wealthier and
better-connected Chicago than their own, and eventually secured contacts and money
essential to Mr. Obama’s long-shot Senate victory,” Kantor wrote. Klein, in an interview with Fox News, described Jarrett
as the “de facto” president of the United States, “the best friend of the first
lady and soul mate of the president.”
