Malik Obama, the older half brother of US President Barack Obama, said he's voting for Donald Trump

Barack Obama’s half brother said he’s voting for Donald Trump because he wants to "make America great again”.

“I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart,” Malik Obama told The New York Post from his home in the rural village of Kogelo in Kenya.

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“Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him.”

Malik Obama (58) is one of Barack Obama’s seven half brothers and sisters.

Malik is a long-time Democrat and said he has “deep-disappointment” in his brother Barack’s administration and that turned him to support “the party of Lincoln”.

He said he was annoyed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was not prosecuted over her use of private e-mail servers while secretary of state.

“She should have known better as the custodian of classified information,” he said.

In his 2002 biography dedicated to his and Barack’s father he said Khadafy “made the world a better place” and condemned his killing.

“I still feel that getting rid of Khadafy didn’t make things any better in Libya. My brother and the secretary of state disappointed me in that regard,” he said.

Malik said his switch to the Republican side was prompted by the fact that they “don’t stand for same-sex marriage”.

“I feel like a Republican now because they don’t stand for same-sex marriage, and that appeals to me,” he said.

Malik made headlines in 2011 when he married his third wife, who was still in her teens.

Malik plans to trek back to the US to vote for Trump in November. He used to live in Maryland, where he worked for many years as an accountant and is registered to vote there, public records show.

“Mr. Trump is providing something new and something fresh,” he said.

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