Obama's brother says he wants Trump to win

President Barack Obama has repeatedly expressed his unwavering endorsement of his former rival and likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, but it turns out that support isn't echoed by his half-brother Malik Obama, the New York Post revealed in an interview. Instead, he said he wants to "Make America Great Again."

The president's older half-brother is a longtime Democrat, but he says he'll cast his vote in November for Donald Trump, the billionaire-turned Republican presidential nominee.

"I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart," Malik Obama told The Post from his home in the rural village of Kogelo. "Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him."

Though Obama resides in Kenya, he remains a resident of Maryland, where he used to work as an accountant, according to public records. Reasons for his change in party affiliation, he cites, include FBI Director James Comey's recent decision not to prosecute Secretary Clinton for the mishandling of her private email server as well as his brother's "disappointing" intervention in Libya that led to the death of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011 -- a "close friend" of Malik Obama.

On behalf of the Secretary's email misuse, he told The Post, "she should have known better as the custodian of classified information." And, he continued, "I still feel that getting rid of Gaddafi didn't make things any better in Libya."

However, there's one more explanation for his newly pledged allegiance to the "party of Lincoln" - same sex marriage, a hot-button issue seemingly embedded into the social fabric of the Republican party.

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

Malik Obama is a self-proclaimed polygamist who at the age of 52 married a 19-year-old.

CBS