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Sarah Palin made a funny.
She appeared to suggest she both admires President Obama and thinks he is Ben Carson in a Facebook post Friday afternoon. The former Alaska governor posted an image of herself talking to the onetime Republican candidate and wrote, “Confession: I’m an Obama Admirer.”
“It was nice to shake Obama’s hand the other night and whisper a belated ‘thank you’ for the courage and love of country he shows in this most important time,” the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said.
She was only kidding, though. Palin explained further down in the post that she just wanted to highlight the man seen speaking with another person in the foreground of the photo taken after Wednesday night’s debate.
“Oh, sorry… not THAT Obama — this one — Barack’s brother Malik who attended the Vegas debate in support of the anti-establishment, anti-#NeverTrump, independent, #AmericaFirstMovement candidate Donald Trump,” Palin wrote.
“This pic shows Malik Obama and Dr. Ben Carson as we exited the debate’s surreal hearing of the oft repeated, unrefuted, untruthful sound bites uttered on stage on behalf of the globalist agenda.”
Palin added a rant telling her 4.7 million followers they cannot “rely one iota on the referees (the media) to level the playing field in coverage of this final debate.” The post had received over 4,600 likes by Friday night.
“Phew! I thought they force-fed the Kool-Aid to you,” one of Palin’s followers wrote. “I really enjoyed reading your post…that is, once my heart started beating again!”
“Wow! For a second there my first thought was ‘omg someone hacked your page’!!! Then I reread the first couple of sentences over and over again shaking my head,” another one said. “Thank goodness I kept reading!!”
“Sarah Palin you have real class. I wish you were our first woman president!” a third one wrote in a seeming concession to Trump’s opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Trump had invited Malik Obama to the debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus in his latest attention-grabbing debate ticket. Four women who accuse Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct attended the previous debate as Trump’s guests.
Malik Obama, a Muslim U.S. citizen from Kenya who has between three and 12 wives, had once been close with POTUS, The Washington Post reported. President Obama’s half-brother served as the best man when he married Michelle Obama.
Yet Malik Obama told Fox News‘ Sean Hannity he is now planning to buck President Obama’s party and vote for the Republican nominee. He’s “disappointed” in his half-brother, Obama said.
“It’s too formal. It’s like he’s busy, maybe he’s got this line of all these people, you know, want to see him,” he told Hannity on Thursday. “So it would have been nice, if let’s say, maybe I could go have dinner with him.”