You must be talking to someone else, because I don't have him or anyone else on any hook.
However, I will say your hypothetical assumes that Obama is the same vain, insecure, criminal character that Trump is, and he can't be, because if Obama were, he would be literally an entirely different person with a different background, outlook, temperament and support structure. This is why the question, respectfully, makes no sense. Someone of Obama's character would never have engaged in something so base and crass as Trump and his craven post-2020 election nonsense.
Had you used Bill Clinton in 1996 as your example, you might have come closer to the mark you were aiming for, but then, you couldn't have made your point as effectively as you could have with Obama, that is, were it not such an absurd impossibility.