Malik Obama says half-brother Barack is “still running the country” – and warns he will play a “big role” in Harris' presidency

Abon'go Malik Obama believes his half-brother, former President Barack Obama, is “still running the country” – and would “play a big role” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election.

Malik — who was a best man at Barack's wedding but has since split from the 44th president — told the Post that his relative “turned everything on its head” in July when he swapped President Biden for Harris as the Democratic nominee, without one only area code the vote cast.

“He definitely had something to do with it. … He still runs the Democratic Party and he still runs the country behind closed doors,” he said of his estranged half-brother. “He will have a big impact on whatever happens if they win.”

Asked whether Harris and Obama worked together to overthrow Biden and remain in touch, Malik replied: “I'm sure they talk almost every day.”

The Kenyan-born and naturalized U.S. citizen, in a Zoom interview from his rural village of Kogelo, Kenya, shared his opinion about his relative's “huge disappointment” in the White House, his “lightbulb” moment as he joined the Republican Party and expressed concerns about the lack of media control over 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 family and the Democratic Party, which has moved further left on social issues since 2008.

That culminated in Harris' appeal to “freedom” as part of her campaign, which advocates for federal codification of abortion rights and an expansion of LGBTQ initiatives, which he said conflicts with his devout Muslim views.

“What if you’re married? I mean, are you telling me that the woman can do whatever she wants because it's her body and you have no say and you're her husband?” Malik asked. “I am a Muslim and believe that God created men for women and women for men.”

His brother's clashes with the royal family during his time in office and the post-presidency period, in which the Obamas' net worth rose to as much as $135 million, have not improved his opinion of party brokers.

“He’s just getting rich, that’s all. But he's not on the ground. And he is extremely arrogant,” Malik added. “He is no longer the person he once was. … Even here in Kenya we don't feel it. … He is as false as a serpent.”

The irreconcilable differences between the brothers, who share the same father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., began toward the end of Barack's first term when Malik's Virginia-based charity, the Barack H. Obama Foundation, was criticized for failing to register with the U.S. foundation was dissolved state and lies about being a tax-exempt organization.

“Now his foundations are supposed to serve all these young people, and their headquarters are in Chicago, and Chicago has, I don't know, the worst crime rates,” Malik responded. “So what's his mentor?”

“I realized that the Democrats were just a bunch of hypocrites — they didn't keep their promises,” he continued. “But President Trump was forceful, he told the truth and he was fearless, you know, he wasn't just there for the image, but he spoke from the heart.”

Malik has supported Trump in every election since 2016 and said he was registered as a Republican to vote for the 45th president a third time on November 5 in Maryland.

“He's a businessman, and that's why he can run the country, and I think he'll turn things around,” he said of his support earlier this month, before adding of Harris: “All these things she says, she “If she's president, why hasn't she done all of these things even though she's been in office for four good years?”

Yet the media largely credits her with having the fewest interviews with any major party presidential candidate before an election.

“It needs to be examined more closely. I think the press and media are very friendly to her and are trying to boost her presidential campaign so that she can become president,” Malik said. “But I think she’s a joke. … It has no substance.”

“What can she tell us? You know, she was a prosecutor, okay? She became a senator, okay? But tell us, what is their track record? What did she really do? Because she ran for president, she couldn’t make it,” he said.

As an immigrant, he expects that the border will remain in voters' minds – and that Harris will have an albatross hanging around his neck in November – even with Trump and Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio), the Republican vice presidential nominee, in the race Making unfounded claims that Haitian migrants ate animals in Springfield, Ohio.

“I'm here legally, I had to go through the process and, you know, file the papers. I had to wait. My children are there too. We have submitted the papers,” Malik explained. “We can’t just let people cross the Rio Grande … and they get benefits, they get a driver’s license[s]they reap all of these benefits.”

However, when asked whether Trump leaned toward conspiratorial statements about migrants eating dogs and cats in his first debate with Harris, he demurred.

“It expresses the concerns of the people of Springfield, Ohio,” Malik said. “You know, some people even eat other people. …They are cannibals. They eat other people. Others eat cats, others eat dogs, others eat monkeys, others eat steaks.”

“Are you telling me about all these people coming in? “Suppose the Chinese eat all sorts of things there, and when they come to America, will they stop eating it?” he asked. “Probably not.”

Malik accompanied Trump as a chief guest to the third presidential debate against Hillary Clinton in 2016, but has not attended any campaign events since.

The Kenyan worked for decades as an accountant in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and flew back and forth between the US and his home country with dual citizenship.

The Barack Obama Foundation did not respond to a request for comment.