Barack Obama’s half-brother has taken to social media to disparage his famous sibling, calling him a “fake a–.”
The brother posted a British traveling document of their late father and suggested that the former president refused to store it as an archival element in his new presidential library.
The passport shared on Twitter by Malik Obama on April 11 bears the name “Mr. Barack Hussein Obama” and was stamp-dated on April 29, 1959, April 29, 1964, and April 29, 1969.
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It lists that the person to whom the identification belongs is a British Subject: A Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies and was born in Alego, Nyanza Province, of Kenya.
The tweet said, “I tried to get fake a– to put this in his library but he wouldn’t.”
He later tweeted, “Fake a– a snake,” before encouraging people to purchase his autobiography, “Big Bad Brother from Kenya.”
Many saw the passport and believed it belonged to the 44th president of the United States, fueling a long-running false conspiracy theory that the first president of the country of African descent was foreign-born.
Malik Obama sought to clarify the provenance of the document by email, stating to Reuters, “It’s my father’s passport.”
Even though the rumor was debunked, it continued to run rampant by “birthers” on various social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok.
One person retweeted Malik Obama, writing, “Malik Obama is dropping docs proving Barack Obama was born in Nairobi, Kenya and was thus a FAKE and ILLEGITIMATE President,” despite a photograph of the bearer of the passport being of the two Obamas’ father.
Malik Obama also fueled the conversation by raising questions about his…
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