The answer was basically, there has indeed been reporting to that effect, and hey there has been reporting “to a lot of effects,” and gosh you end up down a rabbit hole with this stuff, dontchaknow.

— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) July 10, 2019

Right wingers have been trying to use that angle to implicate Obama, but all this took place while GWB was President. Obama was still a Senator.