Human nature is not rotten to the core. Look at any tragedy. You will find angels among us, there, helping. Human nature is both good and evil and everything in between. When we turn to Gd, He tries to lead us to Good. We don’t always obey.
Obama may indeed have crossed the line from usefulness to embarrassment and discovery for his handlers. He may be hung out to dry because the handlers know he will not be removed from office. He won’t talk, either. However, no one can predict what a huge public shaming without a slobbering press would do to his narcissism. A wounded narcissist is dangerous.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9