The sibling rivalry continues.
Abon’go Malik Obama, the half-brother of former President Barack Obama, stole the highlight from his relative Wednesday by revealing that he would as soon as once more be voting for Donald Trump this November.
“I’m Malik Obama. I’m a registered Republican and I’m voting for President Donald Trump,” the Kenya-born naturalized US citizen posted on X.
The forty fourth president’s relative backed Trump, 78, in opposition to former members of the Obama administration in every of the final two elections.
The snub of Vice President Kamala Harris — at some point after former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney endorsed her — additionally comes after Obama reportedly helped elevate the Californian to the highest of the 2024 Democratic ticket to interchange Biden, 81.
In an unique 2016 interview with The Publish, Malik Obama stated he preferred that Trump “speaks from the center.”
Whereas each are sons of Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan economist who died in a automotive accident in 1982, Malik referred to as his youthful half-sibling a “deep disappointment” and blamed 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for his departure from the get together.
“She ought to have recognized higher because the custodian of labeled data,” Malik stated of the ex-secretary of state’s use of a personal e mail server to carry delicate authorities paperwork whereas America’s high diplomat.
“Make America Nice Once more is a superb slogan,” he added in the interview from his dwelling within the rural village of Kogelo. “I wish to meet him [Trump].”
That got here to go when Malik Obama was a featured visitor of the Trump marketing campaign on the third presidential debate with Clinton in Las Vegas.
In 2020, Malik informed The Publish he was “110% nonetheless with Trump” and added that Biden, then in his late-70s, “appears to be like like he’s going to drop lifeless.”
Public data present that Malik nonetheless maintains a residence in Maryland and was registered to vote within the state as of 2016.
He labored as an accountant for many years within the Washington, DC, metro area, and jetted backwards and forwards between the US and Kenya whereas holding twin citizenship.
In 1992, Malik was the most effective man at Barack’s marriage ceremony to the previous Michelle Robinson, and he later visited the White Home throughout his half-brother’s time in workplace.
“I caught with Barack Obama all by way of his presidency, till I spotted he was all about himself,” Malik posted on X in September 2022. “That’s once I ditched him for President Trump.
However in line with a 2020 interview with The Publish, the brothers had a falling out over Malik’s determination to launch a Virginia-based charity — the Barack H. Obama Basis — that was busted in 2011 for failing to register within the state and mendacity about being a tax-exempt group.
A evaluate of Malik’s social media presence additionally signifies he doubtless switched to the Republican Get together resulting from his socially conservative viewpoints on same-sex marriage and abortion.
“We Need Extra Infants. My President,” the training Muslim posted on X final month after Trump pledged that his presumptive second administration would foot the invoice totally free IVF remedies.
Different startling X posts by Malik Obama vary from the crass to the conspiratorial — together with as soon as pumping out a pretend picture of a start certificates, dated from earlier than the 1964 institution of the Republic of Kenya, that purportedly confirmed Barack was born outdoors the US.
The previous first relative additionally relished ex-independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s determination to drop out of the race and endorse Trump final month at an Arizona rally.
The Publish reached out to the Maryland Board of Elections about Obama’s present voter registration standing.
Neither the Trump marketing campaign nor the Harris marketing campaign instantly responded to a request for remark.
