Louis Farrakhan Shares Details Of Private Meeting With Obama

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Daily Caller:

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan recently revealed for the first time the details of a private meeting he had at his Chicago home with Barack Obama just before the then-U.S. Senator announced his run for president.

 

Speaking to at the Nation of Islam’s mosque in Chicago late last month, the fiery minister said that he gave Obama financial support to help him win pubic office. He also acknowledged that he has withheld details of his relationship with Obama for fear of political consequences for the former community organizer.

 

“We supported him when he was a community organizer,” said Farrakhan. “We backed him with money and with the help of the [Fruit of Islam] to get him elected.”

 

Neither Farrakhan nor Obama have discussed details of their relationship in Chicago, where Obama was elected state senator in 1996. During the 2008 presidential election, Obama’s critics seized on connections between his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Farrakhan, who has been denounced by the Anti-Defamation League and other groups because of anti-Semitic statements.