Obama’s half-brother will be Trump’s guest at final debate showdown in Vegas
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BARACK OBAMA’S half-brother will be in the audience of tonight’s third and final presidential debate — as a guest of Donald Trump. Malik Obama, 58, a Kenyan-born US citizen, said he was “excited” to be at the televised contest in Las Vegas, adding: “Trump can make America great again.” He dismissed claims by several women that they were groped by the tycoon, 70, saying: “Why didn’t they come forward before?”
Mr Trump, the Republican nominee, said: “I look very much forward to meeting and being with Malik. He gets it far better than his brother.”
Although Malik and President Obama, 55, were best men at each other’s weddings, there is no love lost between them. In a documentary last year, Malik, the son of their father’s first wife, said: “He’s not an honest man, as far as I’m concerned, in who he is and what he says and how he treats people.”
He said the Barack H Obama Foundation, set up in the name of their father, would be better able to help the family’s home village of Kogelo, Kenya, “if I had got the support I should have got from my brother”. Malik said he last saw his sibling at the White House in August 2015 on a “courtesy call” and announced he would vote for Mr Trump last July.
He blames Hillary Clinton, 68, who is ahead by an average of seven per cent in most major polls, for exacerbating the crisis in the Middle East as Secretary of State. He said she was behind the 2011 ousting of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who he claims was a friend.