President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother, Malik Obama, plans to vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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Mr Trump was quick to point out the news on Twitter, said that Mr Obama “was probably treated badly by the president like everyone else”.
“‘Make America Great Again’ is a great slogan”, he said. “I would like to meet him”, he added, according to the New York Post.
But he told the Post his “deep disappointment” in Barack’s administration prompted him to recently switch allegiance to “the party of Lincoln”.
Malik voiced anger over FBI Director James Comey refusing to prosecute Clinton in relation to abuse of private email servers while she was secretary of state.
Malik Obama also released a letter purportedly from his presidential relative that said Barack Obama first got into politics to “deal with some serious issues blacks face here”.
Malik Obama also criticized some decisions by his brother and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, especially the move to oust former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. All his children except Malik and the youngest, George Obama, live in Britain or the United States.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump address an audience at the The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center on July 25, 2016 in Roanoke, Virginia.
“Donald is a down-to-earth kind of person, he also approaches issues directly and does not mince his words and being a candidate of the Republican Party I support his candidature”, said Obama, reported the newspaper. Obama worked for many years as an accountant in Maryland and is registered to vote there, according to public records. He refused to tell New York Post exactly how many wives he has, claiming that it is a “personal information”.
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President Obama has seven half-siblings from both his mother and father. “And I think the kinds of rhetoric that we’ve heard too often, from Mr. Trump and others, is ultimately helping do ISIL’s work for us”. “He wanted me to shut it down when I set it up”. “I am a Muslim but you cannot tolerate people shooting at people, killing people in the name of Islam”, he further said.
