A previously little-known White House aide has garnered growing public attention in recent days after Sen. Jon Ossoff mentioned her while levying an attack on President Donald Trump. The Georgia Democrat said that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job” of President.
Instead, Ossoff continued, “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie.” Ossoff was referring to 35-year-old Natalie Harp, a longtime aide to Trump. When asked about Ossoff’s comments, Trump likened the Democrat to “Pee-wee Herman” and said he “would much rather do other things.” Read More: CNN Condemns the White House’s Attacks on Journalist Kristen Holmes: Here’s What to Know So who is Harp, and what is her role in the White House? In 2019, Harp went on Fox News and thanked Trump for signing the Right to Try law the year before.
She told the network that she had stage 2 bone cancer, and that the new law allowed her to access experimental treatments, which she said saved her life. After hearing her recount her experience, Trump asked her to give a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, according to the New York Times. You did, and without you, I’d have died waiting for them to be approved.” But after the convention, the Washington Post reported that medical experts cast doubt on Harp’s claims.
Harp has said that she was treated with “an FDA-approved immunotherapy drug for an unapproved use,” and experts said that the federal legislation that Trump signed in 2018 wouldn’t have made that drug accessible to Harp because the medication had already been approved. About two years after her speech at the Republican National Convention, she became a member of Trump’s staff. Before Harp joined Trump’s team, she worked as an anchor for a far-right news channel called One America News Network for a couple years.
While working for the network, she propagated Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him. In Harp’s role, officially called the “special assistant to the President and executive assistant to the President,” she works closely with Trump. Many of the Truth Social posts that the President shares are ones that he dictated to her to type and hit “post” on.
According to the Times, which cited two people who were aware of the situation, Harp hit the “send” button on the enraged messages that Trump sent to the billionaire and major Republican donor Miriam Adelson in 2024—messages that nearly lost him Adelson’s backing. Harp was also the one who transcribed dozens of social media posts that Trump dictated to her one day in which he attacked the writer E. Jean Carroll, who alleged that Trump raped her in the 1990s, the Times reported.
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