A Lie About Obama’s Past Relationship With Family Member Revealed?
President Barack Obama’s uncle testified at a deportation hearing on Tuesday that Obama stayed with him
while he was attending Harvard Law School in the 1980s, contradicting
the White House’s claim that the two had never met. The uncle’s former
landlord, who reportedly served as a witness at the hearing, also said
the president once lived with his uncle.
A judge decided to let Onyango “Omar”
Obama, a Kenyan national, remain in the United States after he was
arrested for drunk driving in 2011.
Shortly after his arrest, the White
House argued President Obama had never even met his uncle when reporters
asked questions about their relationship.
The Obama White House has not commented
on the new claim made by Omar Obama and his former landlord, identified
as Alfred Ouma. The Boston Globe’s Maria Sacchetti reports:
He testified that president stayed w/ him in Cambridge when he came to attend Harvard Law.
— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) December 3, 2013
Obama said "my nephew Barack Obama" stayed with him "at least 3 weeks."
— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) December 3, 2013
Ouma confirms in aside that POTUS lived with Uncle Omar. No response yet from @WhiteHouse cc @Maley44
— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) December 3, 2013
@MMaiona Still haven't heard back from the White House. Made numerous calls/ emails.
— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) December 4, 2013
If the claim is true, that Obama did
indeed live with his uncle for a period of time, one has to wonder why
the White House would even bother to tell such a seemingly
inconsequential lie. It also wasn’t immediately clear what Omar Obama
has to gain by making up a story about his nephew living with him for in
Cambridge, Mass., for about three weeks.
“Omar Obama came to the United States
when he was 19, with the help of his brother, Barack Obama Sr. He
currently works as the manager of a liquor store,” the Washington Post reports.
“He is the second of Obama’s relatives
to face deportation and win. Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, also
avoided deportation in 2010,” the report adds.
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