Exclusive | Malik Obama says half-brother Barack is still running the country and warns he would have a big role to play in Harris presidency
Abon’go Malik Obama believes his half-brother former President Barack Obama is “still running the country” — and would have “a big role to play” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election.Malik — who was best man at Barack’s wedding but has since parted ways with the 44th president — told The Post that his relative made “everything flip” in July, when he swapped out President Biden for Harris as the Democratic nominee, without a single primary vote being cast.“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.”Asked whether Harris and Obama colluded on the Biden ouster and remain in contact, Malik responded: “I’m sure that they are talking almost every day.”The Kenyan-born, naturalized US citizen in a Zoom interview from his rural village of Kogelo, Kenya, went on to share his opinions about the “big disappointment” his relative had been in the White House, his “light bulb” moment when he joined the Republican Party and his concerns about the lack of legacy media scrutiny of Harris.“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 leftward on social issues since 2008.That has culminated in Harris’ appeal to “freedom” as part of her campaign to push for a federal codification of abortion rights and an expansion of LGBTQ initiatives, which he said clashes with his devout Muslim views.“What if you’re in a marriage? I mean, are you telling me that the woman can do whatever she likes because it’s her body, and you have no say, and you are her husband?” Malik asked.“I am a Muslim, and I believe that God created men for women and women for men.�...