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Report: President Obama's Half-Brother Voting for Trump

BALTIMORE (WJZ)—President Obama's Kenyan half-brother says he's jumping party lines and voting for Donald Trump this coming election, according to a report by the New York Post.

"I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart," Malik Obama told the Post.

58-year-old Malik Obama is apparently a longtime Democrat, but says the last straw came earlier this month when FBI Director James Comey recommend not prosecuting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

"She should have known better as the custodian of classified information," said Obama.

Malik is also annoyed that Clinton and President Obama killed Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, whom he called one of his best friends.

According to the Post, President Obama has seven half-siblings from both sides of his family.

Obama tells the Post that he plans to come back to the United States to vote for Trump in November.

Though Obama resides in Kenya, he remains a resident of Maryland, where he used to work as an accountant, according to public records.

 

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