Ever heard of Natalie Harp?
She may not be the most famous Trump confidant, but her effect is unmistakable.
She is so essential that she is called “unfireable”.
Who’s Natalie Harp?
The Guardian reports numerous successful methods for getting close to Donald Trump and earning a job with him. A one? Being young, blonde, and fascinated with the president makes the Secret Service uncomfortable.
Natalie Harp, a former far-right television broadcaster and Trump aide, seems to have succeeded with that technique.
Who is Natalie Harp, who seems to be getting closer to the POTUS?
She was born in 1991, making her 33-34 years old. Harp hails from a conservative California Christian household.
Her father, an estate agent, started a travel company marketing and branding consultancy and led a private Christian university’s “office of innovation”.
Natalie attended San Diego’s Christian liberal arts Point Loma Nazarene University from 2009 to 2012. Liberty University, an evangelical Virginia college, awarded her an MBA in 2015.
With Trump on everyday golf outings
A bone cancer survivor, Harp, told Fox News in 2019 that Trump’s “Right to Try” law saved her life.
She later supported his presidential campaign and spoke at the Republican National Convention, comparing Trump to George Bailey from It’s a Wonderful Life and stating, “Without you, I’d have died waiting for [experimental drugs] to be approved.”
Researchers like former FDA official Peter Lurie and health sciences professor Jeremy Snyder questioned her claims because she obtained an FDA-approved immunotherapy medicine for an unauthorized application, which was permissible before Right to Try.
Harp anchors One America News Network, a far-right, pro-Trump television program that spreads conspiracy theories, after the election. She repeated Trump’s phony election theft accusation.
She left the network for his communications team in 2022. She rode a golf cart with a laptop and printer to display Trump positive news and web posts on his daily golf outings, according to the Washington Post.
Harp later joined Trump’s 2024 campaign. The Bulwark said that she posted a disputed “unified Reich” video on his Truth Social account, which was erased hours later. She posted messages for him and sent a big campaign donor furious texts screaming about her super PAC. The group spent millions on Trump campaign ads in critical states.
Nickname Natalie Harp
Natalie Harp is known as the “Human Printer” for making copies of positive news snippets for the president, following him around with a portable printer and power pack and even jogging after him on the golf course.
The Times interviewed numerous unnamed sources and found that Harp’s main job was to broadcast unquestioned, positive news about Trump, much of it from Gateway Pundit, a far-right blog renowned for propagating conspiracy theories and fake information.
In his upcoming book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power, Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt describes how Harp entered Trump’s inner circle. Daily Mail excerpts show she crossed boundaries.
“Harp didn’t do well with boundaries,” Isenstadt noted.
Melania Trump was astonished when she saw Harp late at night in Trump’s private rooms at Mar-a-Lago, which was usually off-limits to the public.
Isenstadt said Harper wanted to send Trump some documents quickly rather than in the morning.
In Michael Wolff’s new Trump book, the “Natalie situation” became so serious that Secret Service agents considered her “a potential danger to herself as well as to the president.”
Isenstadt wrote that Harp entered Trump’s unoccupied bedroom on “Trump Force One” while it was a decoy.
Nickname change
One may think calling Natalie a “walking printer” is harsh, while others see it as a compliment to her dedication.
Natalie was called “Fatal Attraction” by rivals who compared her to Glenn Close’s psychotic character Alex Forrest due to Harp’s devotion during the campaign.
“Before long, Trump advisers jokingly began to compare Harp to Alex Forrest, Glenn Close’s Fatal Attraction character,” Isenstadt writes in his book.
“Forrest became obsessed with a married man and broke into his house and boiled the family’s pet rabbit in the film’s most memorable scene,” he said.
Trump brought Harp from Florida to the White House despite her behavior, which sources called the campaign’s biggest “migraine.”
“Harp was his Girl Friday,” Isenstadt wrote.
What if Trump posted a flame-throwing Truth Social post? Natalie sent it through. If he wanted to read a Trump-aligned media outlet’s fawning but factually questionable story? Natalie printed it. If Trump wanted to send a Republican congressman a random news article? Natalie texted it to them, the author said.
”As much as those in the senior ranks wanted Natalie gone, they knew she was unfireable,” he said.