Sen. Natalie Harp's Alleged Loyalty to Trump Controversy Continues Amid White House Backll
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Harp became the center of attention after Ossoff named her in a jab against President Donald Trump on Sunday. The Georgia senator told a crowd that instead of fulfilling the responsibilities of the presidency, Trump “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.”
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The Guardian USOssoff appears to have been referring to Natalie Harp, Trump’s executive assistant, who has drawn scrutiny for her closeness to the US president.
The HillOssoff battle with Trump, White House gets nasty The White House and Sen. Jon Ossoff are engaged in an increasingly nasty fight that intensified after the Georgia Democrat, a rising star in his party, invoked President Trump’s longtime aide Natalie Harp in his insults of the commander-in-chief. Ossoff ramped up the feud on Tuesday during a campaign event with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.),…
The Daily WireGeorgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff is getting scorched after taking a sleazy cheap shot at President Donald Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp.
BreitbartDuring an event in Atlanta on Sunday, Ossoff, a one-term senator running in a “toss up” race to keep his seat, accused the president of only caring about building the White House ballroom and traveling with his executive assistant, Natalie Harp.
PoliticoInside Ossoff’s meticulously viral campaign The Georgia Democratic senator is closely involved with all aspects of his campaign amid a tough reelection battle.
New York Times‘With All My Heart, Natalie.’ Trump’s Most Devoted Aide Emerges. President Trump’s White House aide Natalie Harp is always by his side. What, exactly, does she do?
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Natalie Harp survived bone cancer because President Trump allowed her the “right to try.” Now she’s an extremely hardworking and trusted assistant. Any other insinuation is vile. https://t.co/7443TJCcQp
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HuffPostNatalie Harp’s rise to the upper echelons of Trump’s inner circle began in 2019 when she credited him with saving her life during a battle with bone cancer. This was due to Trump’s signing of “The Right to Try Act,” which allowed for the greater use of experimental medical treatments by terminally ill patients.
The Guardian USThe LinkedIn post caught the eye of Rupert Murdoch’s conservative Fox News network, which invited Harp on air to talk about it. Trump responded on social media: “Natalie Harp, fighting Stage 2 Cancer and doing really well, was a GREAT guest on @foxandfriends. Right To Try is producing some truly spectacular results. Proud of Natalie!”
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Now that Trump has returned to the Oval Office, Harp is frequently seen at his side and has become an indispensable aide. Last month, when the president was forced to secretly swap planes in Turkey because of an alleged Iranian assassination threat, she was one of the few people to join him on a military plane while other staff and journalists remained on a decoy Air Force One.
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HuffPostHarp, known in the president’s circle as the “human printer” due to the portable printer she follows him around with, was reportedly one of just three aides whom Trump brought with him on his decoy flight out of Turkey last month.
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In the book Regime Change published this year, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan wrote that Harp’s loyalty extended to writing Trump “adoring letters” including one that read: “You are all that matters to me.”
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HuffPostHarp’s relationship with the president has received renewed attention in the two months since the release of Swan and Haberman’s book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”
Democracy NowPulitzer Prize-winning reporter Maggie Haberman is the co-author of the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. In the book, Haberman and her fellow New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan provide an inside look at how the administration has handled many of the biggest crises of Trump’s second term.
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Harp’s devotion to Trump does not sit well with her estranged brother, Preston Harp, who lives in Nicaragua’s capital Managua. He told the Daily Beast website last month: “I think that she does see Trump as a kind of father figure because he embodies the doctrine of American exceptionalism.”
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HuffPostPreston Harp, who’s been estranged from Natalie for several years, said he doesn’t believe his sister’s loyalty to Trump is based on any “physical attraction,” but rather the siblings’ conservative upbringing.
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The White House launched a personal attack against a CNN reporter on Monday with a social media post that mentioned her children and accused her of asking a “disgusting and inhumane question”.
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HuffPostCritics have fiercely condemned the White House’s highly personal online attack on a CNN journalist who asked Donald Trump an uncomfortable question.
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The White House’s “rapid response” social media account posted a clip of the exchange and tagged Holmes, calling her a “disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession”.
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HuffPostThe White House’s rapid response account on X shared footage of the exchange and first slammed Holmes as “a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession,” called her question a “cheap shot” and said: “These scumbags are the lowest of the low.”
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He also called Ossoff a “coward” when he defended the line. Trump has a long and well-documented history of sexist comments and behavior, from the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape where he said “grab ’em by the pussy” to his misogynistic attacks on the female reporters around him. He tried to silence Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey by saying, “Quiet, piggy!” He asked Nancy Cordes of CBS News if she’s “a stupid person.” He has called Katie Rogers of The New York Times “ugly,” and has chastised CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for not smiling.
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The Guardian USTrump has a long history of aggressively attacking and insulting women in the press corps who ask tough questions, including saying, “Quiet, piggy” to a Bloomberg reporter, calling another CNN journalist “corrupt”, and storming out of NBC’s Meet the Press after calling the moderator “crooked or stupid”.
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A lot of conservatives have raged against Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) since he made some pointed comments about President Donald Trump ― but Fox News host Jesse Watters has refused to join the pile-on.
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The HillWatters: Trump has said ‘so much more sleazy things’ than Ossoff’s quip Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday acknowledged that President Trump has said “so much more sleazy things” than Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-Ga.) quip about White House executive assistant Natalie Harp. “To suggest that Trump surrounds himself with attractive women –– yeah, I think he’s done that his whole life,” Watters said on Fox’s “The…
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White House spokesperson Davis Ingle also slammed Ossoff for his comments. “Jon Ossoff is a cringeworthy, feminine theatre kid cosplaying as Barack Obama. Nobody gives a shit what this lightweight loser says,” Ingle said.
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The Daily WireWhite House spokesman Davis Ingle called Ossoff “a cringeworthy, feminine theatre kid cosplaying as Barack Obama.”
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01 The Guardian US “George Bailey’s father was right,” smiled Harp, her voice echoing in the Andrew W Mellon auditorium in pandemic-hit Washington. “All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away. Mr President, that makes you the richest man in the world.”
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02 HuffPost “Well, my mom raised us with the idea that American exceptionalism was the correct way of looking at things, that the United States is the boss of the world,” Preston Harp said on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
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03 Breitbart In his response, Ossoff claimed: Well, I’ve heard this particular aide referred to as his ‘security blanket.’ And I think we could say that about any number of the senior aides in the White House. They’re not telling him what he needs to hear. They’re telling him what he wants to hear. And the nation is at war, and we cannot afford that. We need a team in the White House. We need folks at the State Department, at the Defense Department, in the United States Congress who take their jobs seriously.
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04 The Daily Wire When asked by former Biden flack Jen Psaki why he singled out the female aide by name, Ossoff clumsily tried to backpedal, calling her a “security blanket” and claiming he meant all White House staffers.
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05 Democracy Now Haberman, who has been reporting on Trump since the 1990s, details his frequent attacks on the press over critical reporting, particularly against female reporters. She also discusses the renewed controversy over his close aide Natalie Harp, whom Haberman describes as “something like a human binky” for Trump. Please check back later for full transcript.
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