{"id":13209,"date":"2019-09-07T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13209"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:10:37","slug":"malik-obama-brother-of-barack-floats-run-for-congress-against-ilhan-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/malik-obama-brother-of-barack-floats-run-for-congress-against-ilhan-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"Malik Obama, Brother of Barack, Floats Run for Congress Against Ilhan Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-07-Malik-Obama-Brother-of-Barack-Floats-Run-for-Congress-Against-Ilhan-Omar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-07-Malik-Obama-Brother-of-Barack-Floats-Run-for-Congress-Against-Ilhan-Omar.png 957w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-07-Malik-Obama-Brother-of-Barack-Floats-Run-for-Congress-Against-Ilhan-Omar-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-07-Malik-Obama-Brother-of-Barack-Floats-Run-for-Congress-Against-Ilhan-Omar-768x482.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>PJ MEDIA<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/columnist\/matt-margolis\/\">Matt Margolis<\/a> &#8212; September 6, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>On Friday, Malik Obama, the estranged half-brother of former president  Barack Obama, went to Twitter to ask his followers if he should run  against Ilhan Omar for Congress. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It is not clear if this is a  serious question, or if Malik Obama is actually considering a run for  Congress in Minnesota. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen and a resident  of Kenya, where, <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/10\/19\/the-story-behind-president-obamas-half-brother-malik-who-trump-invited-to-tonights-debate\/?utm_term=.cd70fa52437d\" target=\"_blank\"><em>according to the Washington Post, he has between 3 and 12 wives<\/em><\/a><em>.  It seems unlikely that Malik Obama would relocate to Minnesota&#8217;s 5th  District to run for Congress.\u00a0PJ Media has reached out to him for  comment, but we did not receive a response by publishing time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>While his intentions aren&#8217;t yet clear, his followers have a wide range of opinions on the issue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including images, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/malik-obama-brother-of-barack-floats-run-for-congress-against-ilhan-omar\/\">https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/malik-obama-brother-of-barack-floats-run-for-congress-against-ilhan-omar\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PJ MEDIA, by Matt Margolis &#8212; September 6, 2019 Excerpt: On Friday, Malik Obama, the estranged half-brother of former president Barack Obama, went to Twitter to ask his followers if he should run against Ilhan Omar for Congress. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/malik-obama-brother-of-barack-floats-run-for-congress-against-ilhan-omar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13211,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions\/13211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}