Obama placed a nuclear stranglehold on anything related to his past, but Trump is denied the same privileges.
Obama also got a judge to unseal court documents of his Senatorial opponent as well. He was taking at the time and this move sank his Republican opponent on grounds of marital infidelity or something along those lines.
Yes; Obama’s Senate opponent had naked pictures of his own wife. Somehow that was embarrassing and scandalous enough to sink the candidacy of an R.
It cleared the decks for an Obama free shot at a U.S. Senate seat. Since he was then currently a State Senator in Illinois, I would guess a fair number of his voters (alive or dead, since it’s Chicago we are talking about here); either thought he was simply running for re-election to his current seat, or had no idea there was any difference between State Senate and U.S. Senate.