In this clumsy interview moment, Malik and Hannity went on and on until the truth finally came out on why Malik turned against his brother. Just like the usual political setting in most African regions, Malik could not deceitfully take advantage of his brother and the White House to build a fortune.
By now, everybody must have known this dude, Malik Obama. A naturalized U.S. citizen, and the half-brother of the current U.S. president, who suddenly turned an ardent supporter of the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump. He was in the audience at the presidential debate in Las Vegas as Trump’s guest and has since dwelled on twitter to throw supportive political jabs in his favor.
Malik said he would vote for Trump because he “comes across as a straightforward guy”, and countered that the nominee’s proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US was “common sense”. But his latest controversial engagement was an appearance on The Hannity Show, Fox TV last week to show a rejection of his half-brother and also promote his support for Trump.
Malik told Hannity, “He (Trump) built a fantastic business empire, and I don’t’ see why he can’t do that for the country.” He also told Hannity that he planned to vote Republican because it’s the party of Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves. In this clumsy interview moment, Malik and Hannity went on and on until the truth finally came out on why Malik turned against his brother. Just like the usual political setting in most African regions, Malik could not deceitfully take advantage of his brother and the White House to build a fortune.
On his relationship with his half-brother, Malik Obama told Hannity in part, “Since he became president… he’s changed…. I think he has been sucked into that matrix, and mesmerized by the power…. He’s just too formal and stiff.” Malik and Hannity went on with some with cheap shots directed against his half-brother, President Obama.
But Malik’s grudge was obvious. Just as we witness among most African politicians, the President could have showered him with government contracts, and apparently used him to remit millions of dollars to Kenya. That would be the only relationship a greedy African politician would want with a relation in power.
What Malik, however, did not properly explain to his Fox audience was how he moved back to his family’s hometown of Kogelo and started a foundation called the Barack H. Obama Foundation; how he used Obama’s name to extort unaccounted donations in Kenya, and how he amassed as many as 12 wives, including a teenage girl – what a travesty.
Malik further used Obama’s influence, including portraits and “Change Message” to campaign as the future president of Kenya. In fact, he ran for governor of the state of Siaya in 2013 and disgracefully got a meagre 1 percent of the vote. Voters rejected him because he had no single agenda, but Barak Obama’s “Change” Portrait. During the time, Malik didn’t think the Republican Party was the party of Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, until he found Trump’s money.
Besides his failed dubious political aspirations, Malik has also been accused by this party he now campaigns for as an agent of Muslim terrorists, which ironically ridicules his latest Trump campaign job. This was how Stephanie Mencimer of Mother Jones summarized what Trump may have overlooked when he invited Malik to the last debate;
The conspiracy-minded right-wing press has long held up Malik Obama as proof-positive of the president’s secret Muslim terrorist ties. World Net Daily writer Jerome Corsi, one of the most prominent of the birther conspiracy theorists and a longtime Trump fan, has been covering Malik Obama for years and implying that he has undue influence on his brother in the White House. In 2013, Corsi reported on allegations that Malik was overseeing investments for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and suggested that this financial relationship helped explain why the Obama administration was supposedly supporting the organization. Corsi later claimed that Malik, who built a mosque on the Obama family compound in Kenya, could soon be added to Egypt’s terrorist watch list because of his ties to the Brotherhood. (Malik has vigorously denied the allegations of links to the Muslim Brotherhood.)
This same Malik is now blowing up Twitter recently with a barrage of pro-Trump messages, even criticizing the affordable care, that “Obama care is a bad name for it. Obama does not care. I want Trump care!” Obviously, Malik’s anger is that his brother didn’t help his greed. He told the New York Post, “My brother didn’t help me at all,” and also complained that he did not support his foundation.
But Malik’s grudge was obvious. Just as we witness among most African politicians, the President could have showered him with government contracts, and apparently used him to remit millions of dollars to Kenya. That would be the only relationship a greedy African politician would want with a relation in power.
Malik’s right to support any candidate is never in question, but his reasons for supporting Trump must be set straight. It is all about greed and definitely not as he said, that Trump was a straightforward man. A man who could trade his family for money-spinning political ambition must not be trusted, and such is just the reality of life. Malik’s irrationality may be permissible. In every family, no matter how decent, there is always one filthy shameless “Malik” – a sore loser, dragging the family name around with his inanity and spawning excruciating annoyance and notoriety. My family has one, and what about yours?
♦ Anthony Obi Ogbo, Ph.D. is the publisher of Houston-based International Guardian, and the author of The Influence of Leadership
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