Donald Trump's unusually close bond with junior aide Natalie Harp inside the White House is under scrutiny, after reports described how she types his social media posts, trails him with a portable printer and calls the President her 'guardian and protector,' while Secret Service agents privately confide that her devotion makes them uneasy.
The relationship between Donald Trump and Natalie Harp, who works alongside him in the White House and at hisprivate clubs, has reportedly also stirred unease among first lady Melania Trump after she allegedly found the aide in her husband's private rooms at Mar‑a‑Lago.
Harp's rise did not begin in politics at all, but with a personal health crisis. Diagnosed with stage 2 bone cancer, she has disclosed that conventional treatments failed and that she was able to access an experimental therapy under theRight to Try Act, a law Trump signed that allows some terminally ill patients to seek drugs not yet fully approved.
In her own telling, that law changed and possibly saved her life. From that point, she attached herself to Trump, first as a public supporter and then as part of his inner working world.
Inside that world, her job description has blurred into something closer to constant companionship. According toThe New York Times, Harp sits with Trump as he dictates social media posts and physically types them up.
She keeps a portable printer with extra batteries within reach at all times, ready to churn out 'flattering' coverage from 'sympathetic outlets'. The paper nicknamed her the 'human printer,' a label that captures both the banality and intensity of the role.
Trump’s lost it and so has his personal aide Natalie Harp has lost it.pic.twitter.com/cDMsgtPP8T
Her loyalty is not only practical but intensely emotional. Letters Harp wrote to Trump, obtained byThe New York Times, describe him as her 'guardian and protector in this life.'
In the same correspondence, she tells him, 'I don't ever want to let you down' and, more starkly, 'You are all that matters to me.' Trump, for his part, reportedly calls her 'sweetie.' None of this has been publicly disputed by either party, though neither has they offered a detailed on‑the‑record explanation of the relationship beyond standard praise for loyal staff.
Natalie Harp wrote "you are all that matters to me" to Trump. She SLEPT in his golf club's women's locker room. Secret Service called her a "Fatal Attraction" threat.Stop lying. There WAS an affair. And soon, another sexual abuse case will be added to Trump's long filthy recordpic.twitter.com/u7qL0Rxfd9
Source: International Business Times UK