Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable TV show, is poised to become the gatekeeper for information to and from the president.
President-elect Donald Trump has always demanded loyalty from his aides but few have answered the call quite like Natalie Harp.
But Harp also established herself at the centre of a fast-moving carousel of text messages, articles and titbits directed at Trump. This has generated concern among other aides who feel she has been far too willing to serve as a funnel for conspiratorial information at a moment when Trump appears more contemptuous than ever of attempts to manage or control him.
In response to a request for comment for this article, the Trump campaign also asked several allies to provide character references. Senator Lindsey Graham described Harp as professional and dedicated. Representative Ronny Jackson said she had a “bubbly, outgoing attitude” that helped keep Trump in high spirits.
Harp provided Trump an article that had an illustration of him wielding a baseball bat next to the head of Manhattan’s district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, who was on the verge of indicting him. Trump quickly posted it to social media but deleted it after his lawyers pleaded with him to do so. Trump loved the story and invited her to speak on his behalf at the 2020 Republican National Convention. She joined his staff in 2022, after leaving her job as an anchor at the far-right One America News Network, where she further endeared herself to Trump by endorsing his baseless claims about the 2020 election being stolen.
In another letter, she told Trump that she wanted to get back to “that synergy” she used to have with him, where “we’d talk about everything and nothing”.
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