Barack and Michelle Obama’s marriage is under new scrutiny, amid allegations linking him with a younger woman, reports Matthew Denby.
The presidential marriage was rocked by a cheating scandal last week, according to claims published in a US magazine.
A devastated Michelle Obama is reportedly distressed by the allegations her husband Barack spent the night with a sexy campaign worker.
The US president, 48, allegedly spent an evening at a Washington DC hotel with his former national finance director, Vera Baker, 35, during his 2004 Senate campaign, according to an investigation by US magazine Globe.
While Michelle, 46, is publicly standing by her man, according to the magazine she is deeply upset that the allegations finally made it into print last week, after years of hints and innuendo. “She’s beside herself,” a source told Globe.
The meltdown follows allegations that the president’s political opponents have bankrolled attempts to get hold of hotel security tapes and old work emails to shed more light on the pair’s relationship.
But one former employee is already talking. “My assignment was to pick up Vera from a friend’s home in the DC area,” the president’s one-time limo driver told Globe.
“She said she needed to change and asked me to take her to The Hotel George, where I learned later Obama would be spending the night.
“I waited in the lobby while she went to a room to change her outfit – but to the best of my knowledge, she did not have a room at the hotel and she was not staying there, so I thought that was a bit odd.
“Why didn’t she change clothes at her friend’s house, where I picked her up? It didn’t make any sense. “We then went to the airport and picked up Obama. I took him to various locations while he was campaigning for funds. Vera accompanied him to each meeting.
“About 10.30pm, I drove them to The Hotel George and they went in together. She did not ask me to wait or to be taken back to her home. There was no indication she was going to leave the hotel that night.”
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