Debate guests: Trump picks Obama’s half-brother, Benghazi victim’s mom; Clinton selects billionaires

The Thomas and Mack Center is seen Tuesday one day before presidential debate between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada. The candidates are bringing drastically different people to the debate as their guests. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 19 (UPI) — The two presidential candidates are bringing symbolic guests to their third and final debate Wednesday night.

Republican Donald Trump invited President Barack Obama‘s Kenyan half-brother and Patricia Smith, who has accused the former secretary of state of “murdering” her son in Benghazi, Libya.

Democrat Hillary Clinton has selected two billionaires — Meg Whitman, the Hewlett-Packard CEO and former Republican California gubernatorial candidate, and Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and star of ABC’s “Shark Tank.”

Malik Obama, who is a U.S. citizen, announced he is supporting Trump in July.

“I’m excited to be at the debate. Trump can make America great again,” Malik told The New York Post.

“I look very much forward to meeting and being with Malik,” Trump also told the newspaper Wednesday. “He gets it far better than his brother.” Malik Obama shares the same father with the president but has a different mother.

Patricia Smith, mother of Sean Smith who was killed in Benghazi, speaks July 18 at the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. Donald Trump invited Smith to attend Wednesday’s presidential debate as his guest. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

Smith, whose son Sean was killed along with three others in the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi in 2012, spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. She said that Clinton “should be in stripes.”

Smith has said Clinton lied to her about what happened in Benghazi after the attacks. Clinton has denied ever giving Smith false information

At the second presidential debate, Trump invited three women who have in the past accused former President Bill Clinton of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Clinton campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri confirmed to CNN that Whitman and Cuban have agreed to attend the debate.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, running mate Sen. Tim Kaine D-Va., (L) and Mark Cuban wave goodbye to their supporters following a rally July 30 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. Clinton invited Cuban to attend Wednesday’s debate as her guest. File Photo by Archie Carpenter/UPI

Cuban, who endorsed Clinton in July, was at the second debate, sitting in the front row as her guest.

“Trump scares me,” Cuban said at a July campaign event in Pittsburgh. “Donald, initially, I really hoped he would be something different, that as a businessperson, I thought there was an opportunity there. But then he went off the reservation and went bats — crazy.”

After the debate, Trump called him “dopey.”

Clinton often mentions Cuban and billionaire investor Warren Buffett as “real billionaires.”

Whitman endorsed Clinton earlier this year and said she would donate to Clinton.

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