Senate Senator Jon Ossoff Criticizes Natalie Harp's Relationship with Trump, Sparking Cont
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Natalie Harp’s relationship with Trump has become the subject of national debate after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) said the president was more interested in spending time with her and building the White House ballroom than he was in doing his job.
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USA TodayThe woman he referenced was Trump's aide Natalie Harp. The week before the rally, reports came out that Harp, 35, was among a small group of aides to join Trump in a secret plane swap in Turkey after a possible threat on the other Air Force One plane.
New York PostNatalie Harp has helped compile news stories for President Trump to read and assisted him in typing up his Truth Social posts. AFP via Getty Images
BBC NewsPublished Few people in US President Donald Trump's orbit have appeared as frequently by his side as Natalie Harp in recent years.
Fox NewsOssoff, a 39-year-old freshman senator running for re-election in Georgia, drew criticism after making a remark about White House aide Natalie Harp during an Atlanta campaign rally Sunday. Ossoff suggested that President Donald Trump has been neglecting his duties, saying, "He doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar."
The Guardian USShe has frequently been at his side ever since. The CNN network reported that in 2023, when Trump was due to appear in court in New York, Harp discovered there was no seat for her in his motorcade so she jumped into the trunk of an SUV, insisting that he had personally asked her to attend.
BreitbartO’Donnell is merely the latest leftist to fixate on Harp, just days after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) suggested in a recent speech that President Trump might be having an affair with Harp.
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He added, “The sailors on the Lincoln are fighting his war, a war based on lies, while he plays with his new ballroom, flies around on a jet given to him by a foreign prince, and retreats into this circle of sycophantic aides who tell him every day what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear. This entire White House is responsible for lying the country into war, and for the rest of their careers, they will be known for having participated in this obscenity.” Follow Pam Key on X @pamkeyNEN
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HuffPost“The sailors on the Lincoln are fighting his war, a war based on lies, while he plays with his new ballroom, flies around on a jet given to him by a foreign prince, and retreats into this circle of sycophantic aides,” Ossoff told O’Donnell.
New York Post“No one cares about their feelings,” Ossoff said of Trump’s aides. “The sailors on the Lincoln are fighting his war, a war based on lies while he plays with his new ballroom, flies around on a jet given to him by a foreign prince, and retreats into this circle of sycophantic aides who tell him every day what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear,” Ossoff added.
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Ossoff’s attack on Harp quickly went viral on social media and drew a deluge of media stories on her history with Trump.
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HuffPostOssoff’s viral dig, and the subsequent wave of stories about Harp and Trump in the days since, have seemingly gotten under the MAGA world’s skin.
USA TodayHarp has stuck in the news cycle in the past week: her estranged brother spoke to CNN. New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman called her Trump's "binky ... a comfort blanket." Of course, Ossoff's comment had a role in it too, though he received some backlash from conservatives who called his comments sexist.
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Collins said Ossoff’s remarks about Harp reinforced his concerns about how the senator views women. "with what he said about Natalie is just one more nail in the coffin on how this guy actually feels about women," said Collins. "When he will say that about someone who is out there doing a fantastic job and to suggest those types of things. Yeah, he owes not only her an apology, but the American people an apology."
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New York PostSen. Ossoff dug in on his swipes against Natalie Harp as conservative critics accuse him of being sexist. Robin Rayne/ZUMA / SplashNews.com
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Rosie O’Donnell jabs Trump, fuels Harp buzz: ‘Let Natalie tuck you in’ Comedian Rosie O’Donnell swiped at President Trump over his close relationship with his executive assistant Natalie Harp while guest-hosting ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday, piling on to the viral critique of the longtime White House aide. “A special hello to those of you watching from home and from the White House,” O’Donnell said during…
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BreitbartIt took Rosie O’Donnell less than 30 second into her Wednesday night Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue to cram in a dig aimed at President Donald Trump’s White House aide, Natalie Harp.
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Now, Harp's official title at the White House is executive assistant to the president, which typically denotes a lower tier position that entails managing logistics, scheduling, communications flow and mundane - but vital - secretarial work.
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The Guardian USHarp, who is executive assistant to the US president, worked at the White House for a year without the routine clearance, the MS Now network reported on Thursday. She refused to file the relevant forms for unknown reasons, according to two unnamed sources cited by MS Now.
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In practice, this means that Harp has an out-sized ability to control what information or updates Trump receives, according to another source familiar with White House operations.
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HuffPostTrump’s other advisers say that with Harp around, the president “enjoys an unvetted flow of information, some of it poisonous and counterproductive,” according to The New York Times.
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Her loyalty to the president has also been documented in the book Regime Change, published this year by the New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. They reported that Harp had written Trump intensely admiring letters, including one in which she told him: “You are all that matters to me.”
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HuffPostThe president has declared to others that Harp will “never leave” him and is “the only one who loved him as much as his wife and his kids,” the Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan wrote in their new book “Regime Change.”
BBC NewsHaberman and Swan reported for the New York Times in 2024 that Harp had supposedly written in a letter to Trump: "You are all that matters to me."
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She signed a letter to Trump: “With all my heart, Natalie.” In a letter to Trump reviewed by The New York Times, Harp apologized to the president if she embarrassed him while walking the course with him in Scotland.
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According to Harp’s estranged brother, Preston Harp, Trump isn’t her first presidential obsession.
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01 New York Post His jab prompted White House Communications Director Steven Cheung to bash “Jon Jerkoff” as “the biggest cuck loser in politics”
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02 BBC News Here is what you need to know about the Trump assistant who has been called both a "gatekeeper" and a "comfort blanket".
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03 USA Today The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Kinsey Crowley is the Trump Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at KCrowley@usatodayco.com. Follow her onX (Twitter),Threads,Bluesky andTikTok.
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04 The Guardian US It was only when the White House counsel’s office raised the issue, and when Trump himself became involved, that Harp filled out the paperwork for a federal background investigation and was belatedly granted clearance, according to the report.
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05 Fox News Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Mike Collins is going scorched earth, accusing his Democratic opponent Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., of making a "sexist" and "misogynist" viral remark involving a female cancer survivor working in the Trump White House.
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06 Breitbart “A special hello to those of you watching from home and from the White House,” O’Donnell began. “But I do have some bad news for President Petty Roosevelt. That’s all I’m going to say about you tonight, sweetheart.”
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07 RealClearPolitics The Georgia senator's Trump jabs reveal a deliberate strategy and a leading 2028 contender Read Full Article ⟶
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08 HuffPost The senator argued that this inner sanctum of acolytes is incapable of telling Trump “what he needs to hear” and that the entire White House is culpable of “lying the country into war” — calling the ongoing conflict an “obscenity” that will haunt them “for the rest of their careers.”
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