Barack Obama’s Old Email Address Revealed by Wikileaks

Wikileaks reveals Barack Obama's personal email address before becoming president.

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Wikileaks has released emails from before Barack Obama took office, revealing the president’s old email address. If you haven't been keeping up with the controversial organization, this summer it released 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Party, revealing they had been working against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign. This week, Wikileaks released more Hillary Clinton emails, including what they claimed were transcripts of Clinton’s paid Goldman Sachs speeches between 2013 and 2015.

Sorry to be the one to crush your dreams, but unlike most of us, Barry O wasn’t the owner of an embarrassing address back from the days of AIM. He was keeping it profesh with bobama@ameritech.net.

The five emails to and from Obama’s address were found in the hacked account of John Podesta, now the head of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Out of the five messages, Obama replied to one. All the messages date from October 2008, weeks before he was first elected president. The email also revealed it was sent via Blackberry through AT&T Wireless service.

People have already jumped at the chance to email the address, and have found their messages haven’t bounced back. And if all this has made you curious about what a young Obama was like before becoming president, here’s a teaser for Netflix’s Barry.

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