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Obama’s half-brother calls him a ‘snob’

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  • Barack Obama’s estranged half brother Malik Obama has called the former president a “snob” in an interview to promote his tell-all book, “Big Bad Brother From Kenya.”
  • Malik Obama described his younger brother “cold and ruthless” and is urging Americans to reelect President Donald Trump.
  • The siblings fell out over a foundation with their father’s name — ‘Barack H. Obama Foundation’ — that the former president feared would be confused with him.

Malik Obama, Barack Obama’s estranged half brother, describes the former president as “cold and ruthless” in his new tell-all book titled “Big Bad Brother From Kenya.” The older Obama accused Barack of abandoning his Kenyan family during the time they needed him the most.

“He got rich and became a snob,” the 62-year-old Malik told The Post via a Skype interview. “What I saw was he was the kind of person that wants people to worship him. He needs to be worshiped and I don’t do that. I am his older brother so I don’t do that.”

His self-published 435-page memoir started selling at Amazon on July 11. Malik told the long and gradual falling out between him and Barack. They share the same father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan economist who died in a car accident in 1982.

The brothers first met in 1985 when Barack was only 24. They had a warm relationship that Malik was the best man at Barack’s wedding to Michelle Obama in 1992. When Barack became president, Malik was a regular visitor to the Oval Office. 

Malik fell out with his brother after he told the then-president of his plans to set up a foundation named after their father — the ‘Barack H. Obama Foundation’. The former president feared the foundation would be confused with him.

“We had a big fight on the phone because he was not in support and insisted I shut down the website and not continue with the foundation. He had his reasons but I was not having any of it,” Malik writes in his memoir. “We talked late into the night that night. He threatened to ‘cut me off’ if I continued with the idea.”

Barcak might have been right to be skeptical as the foundation ran into trouble for failing to register as a tax-exempt, federally recognized nonprofit in 2011. The foundation falsely claimed that it had.

In 2016, Malik made headlines after publicly endorsing Donald Trump for president. He became Trump’s most enthusiastic defenders on social media.

Malik says he still supports Trump.

“[I’m] 110% still with Trump. He’s not fake. He tells us the way he sees it. He’s bold and fearless and he’s tough.”

“I don’t think [Joe Biden]’s going to make it. His teeth are falling off,” Malik mocked the Democratic nominee. “He looks like he’s going to drop dead.”

Source: New York Post

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