I seriously doubt Obama had any part in planning this. He’s not smart enough.
It does have Valerie Jarrett written all over it though. Obama was just a messenger prob.
Doesn’t matter if 0bola actually thought it up or not, he was the chief executive and activated it, probably as you suggest just carrying the message as he is a brain damaged (for real!) homo illegal mohammedan commie using a fake name/etc and is dumb as a bag of dirt.