In short, either Valerie Jarrett or former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel started this operation with the acquiescence of the President.
He’s the best brain of that whole sorry outfit, and knowing the crop he sewed had to get out of Dodge before this bubbled up.
And I think VJ assured him that once he set it all in motion successfully, she’d whisk him back to Chicago where it’s good being the King.
Now I suspect Pelosi as #2 behind Jarrett. POSHITUS ranks a distant fourth or fifth as real POTUS.