Yeah, he's not in over his head. Obama "leaked" a private statement he damn well intended to be made public.

“The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn,” Obama said in a web talk with members of the Obama Alumni Association.

“And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places.”

The MSM was sure to point out Obama, a law school graduate, made a mistake when claiming Flynn was charged with perjury.

Obama misstated the charge to which Flynn had previously pleaded guilty. He was charged with false statements to the FBI, not perjury. But the Justice Department, in a filing with a federal judge on Thursday, asked that the case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller be dismissed, arguing that FBI agents did not have a justifiable reason to question the then national security adviser about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak — talks FBI agents and Mueller’s prosecutors concluded he had lied about.

Of course, the "misstated" charge of perjury is exactly what Sullivan ended up charging Flynn with. Sure seems like the "leak" was taken as marching orders.

Still, Obama’s unvarnished remarks were some of his sharpest yet about the Trump administration and appeared to forecast a dramatically stepped-up political role he intends to play in this year’s election. The comments came during a lengthy chat in which he also sharply criticized the response to the coronavirus pandemic, blaming it on the “tribal” trends that have been stoked by the president and his allies.

Obama "leaked" this tape on purpose. Here we see Obama's one of the first to bring up the narrative these accusations regarding Flynn's case are simply distractions by Trump so people will ignore his handling of the coronavirus in an effort to win the public relations narrative.