Sen. Jon Ossoff Faces Backlash for Personal Insult at Trump Rally, Highlights Controversy
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Sen. Jon Ossoff is facing backlash from White House officials and conservatives after taking a personal shot at Trump aide Natalie Harp at a campaign rally, referring to her only by her first name.
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HuffPostSen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) appeared to elevate his profile by cracking wise about President Donald Trump’s relationship with his much younger White House aide Natalie Harp.
USA TodayNatalie Harp has long been one of President Donald Trump's closest aides, but a pointed comment from Sen. Jon Ossoff has put her into the national spotlight.
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.
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.),…
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.
The Guardian USDemocratic senator Jon Ossoff attacked Donald Trump and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, over the Iran war, saying they lied 'the nation into a war'. Ossoff, who is running for re-election in Georgia in November, made the comments while speaking at a rally in midtown Atlanta on Sunday afternoon
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Harp, 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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USA TodayWhy is she called the 'human printer'? Harp has become known in Trump circles as the "human printer," a nickname tied to her habit of carrying a portable printer and battery pack so she could provide the president with physical copies of information wherever he traveled, according to reporting by The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Fox NewsShe has earned the nickname the "human printer" in Trump's orbit, updating the president with print outs of news articles, emails, social-media posts and other material for him to read.
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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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Fox News"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," wrote Rep. Brandon Gill.
USA TodayHarp first gained national attention after crediting Trump's "Right to Try" law with helping her access an experimental treatment for bone cancer, according to Forbes. She spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention and later worked on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign before joining the White House as executive assistant at the start of his second term.
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“Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he’s a miserable person who hates this country,” Cheung said. “It’s because he’s a radical, extremist Dumocrat.”
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HuffPost“Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics,” he wrote. “Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he’s a miserable person who hates this country. It’s because he’s a radical, extremist Dumocrat.”
Fox News"Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he's a miserable person who hates this country. It's because he's a radical, extremist Dumocrat," said White House communication director Steven Cheung.
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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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Fox NewsHe added, "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." Fox News Digital reached out to Harp and Ossoff for comment.
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Harp’s close relationship with the president has been noted for a while. The New York Times in 2024 reported that Harp has written messages to Trump that include statements such as “You are all that matters to me” and “I want to bring you joy.”
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Harp’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.”
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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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Ossoff replied, “Jen, let me reiterate. I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly, zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now. And I would note that Senator Kelly is going to be here in Georgia tomorrow campaigning alongside me, because he also recognizes that these midterms are the whole ballgame.”
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BreitbartThe Georgia Senate race is expected to be extremely tight and could even determine which party holds the majority during the second half of President Donald Trump’s second term. Ossoff was previously dubbed the “most vulnerable” Democrat up for reelection, but he is also widely believed to harbor ambitions to run for the presidency in 2028.
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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 Hill Ossoff says Trump is ‘draft-dodging crook president’ at Georgia town hall meeting Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Tuesday accused President Trump of being a “draft-dodging crook president” during a town hall with Georgia voters. Ossoff talked to voters on a stage with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and his wife, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). He emphasized his Senate ally, who works with Ossoff on the Senate Intelligence…
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02 USA Today During a rally in Atlanta on Aug. 16, the Georgia Democrat accused Trump of wanting to "travel with Natalie" instead of focusing on his duties, reigniting questions about the aide's influence and unusually close proximity to the president.
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03 Fox News "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," Ossoff said.
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04 HuffPost “He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff said. “He 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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05 Breitbart “Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, they’ve now been at sea for 240 plus days without a port call. It’s a Navy record. And still they serve with excellence. God bless the sailors, Marines, aviators, and all aboard the United States ship Abraham Lincoln,” Ossoff told the crowd. “See, they don’t expect luxury. They’ll endure hardship, but they deserve competent leaders who send them into combat only when necessary, and with decisive clarity of purpose, not fools who lie about the purpose and progress of war.”
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06 The Daily Wire That weak excuse didn’t fly. Trump allies and administration officials immediately came out swinging, slamming Ossoff’s insinuations as down-in-the-gutter tactics against a hardworking cancer survivor.
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07 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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