The brother of Barack Obama says the former president is actually the one who is running the country, adding that he would continue to play an outsized role in a Kamala Harris administration.
Malik Obama, who was the best man at his brother’s wedding back in the day but has since had a falling out with him, told the New York Post his brother is “still running the country” and would have “a big role to play” if Harris wins.
Malik said Barack made “everything flip” in July when he managed to ‘swap out’ President Joe Biden with the vice president, making her the de facto Democratic nominee without her ever receiving a single primary vote.
“Definitely he had something to do with it. … He’s still running the Democratic Party, and he’s still running the country behind closed doors,” he said of his estranged half-brother. “He’s going to be extremely influential in whatever goes on should they win.”
When asked if Barack and Harris colluded to oust Biden, Malik told The Post: “I’m sure that they are talking almost every day.”
In a Zoom interview from his rural village of Kogelo, Kenya, the Kenyan-born naturalized U.S. citizen expressed his views on the “big disappointment” his half-brother had been in the White House. He discussed his “light bulb” moment when he joined the Republican Party and shared his concerns about the insufficient scrutiny of Harris from legacy media.
“I had a lot of expectations that he didn’t live up to,” Malik said of Barack, describing how two terms in office changed his opinion of his kin and the Democratic Party, which lurched ever to the far-left on social issues since 2008.
This has culminated in Harris’s emphasis on “freedom” as part of her campaign to advocate for federal codification of abortion rights and the expansion of LGBTQ initiatives, which he stated conflicts with his devout Muslim beliefs.
