Former aide recounts being set up by Obama.

The former White House deputy chief of staff said she was once introduced by Barack Obama to an assistant to a senator.

Barack Obama and Alyssa Mastromonaco in 2012. Photo: White House.

In an interview with The Times on July 25, Alyssa Mastromonaco recounted how Barack Obama had introduced her to an employee of Senator Tom Harkin in 2006, while the two were returning to Chicago from Iowa. Obama, then a senator from Illinois, noticed that the employee took a liking to Mastromonaco.

"Obama turned to me and said, 'He really likes you. If you don't email him, I will,'" Mastromonaco wrote in her book "Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?", about her time working with Obama. "He held the phone as if to say, 'I'll do it.'"

Ms. Mastromonaco then contacted Harkin's staff, and the two went on a few dates.

Mastromonaco began working for Obama in early 2005 and followed him into the White House afterward. She was responsible for planning Obama's foreign trips. She became Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House at the age of 34, the youngest person ever to hold that position.

She resigned in 2014, after six years in the White House, and is now the CEO of a television company.

According to VNE