Natalie Harp | |
|---|---|
| Executive Assistant to the President | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Drew Rodriguez |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1991 (age 33–34) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Point Loma Nazarene University (BA) Liberty University (MBA) |
Natalie J. Harp (born 1991) [1] [2] is an American former television personality who works as an aide for President Donald Trump. She is frequently known as a "human printer" for accompanying Trump throughout the day to provide him with flattering articles she finds on the Internet. [2] [3] She has also sent social media and text messages in Trump's name.
Harp is from a conservative Christian family in California. [1] Her father is an estate agent who founded a marketing and branding consultancy for travel companies and was the head of an "office of innovation" at a private Christian university. [4]
From 2009 to 2012,Harp studied at Point Loma Nazarene University,a Christian liberal arts college in San Diego. [5] In 2015,she graduated with an MBA from Liberty University,an evangelical college in Virginia. [4]
In 2019,Harp said in an interview with Fox News that a 2018 "Right to Try" law enacted by then-President Donald Trump had saved her from dying of a rare subtype of bone cancer. [1] [4] Harp later joined Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. She delivered a speech at that year's Republican National Convention,where she compared Trump to George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life , [1] [4] saying that "Without you,I'd have died waiting for [experimental drugs] to be approved". [4] Harp's claims were called into question by experts,including former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official Peter Lurie and Simon Fraser University professor of health sciences Jeremy Snyder. [6] [4] Snyder noted that Harp had been given "an FDA-approved immunotherapy drug for an unapproved use",which had been allowed prior to Right to Try. [7] [4]
After 2020,Harp became an anchor for One America News Network (OAN),a far-right,pro-Trump cable channel known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories. At the network,she promoted Trump's false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. [1] She left the network in March 2022 to join Trump's communications team. [8] [9] The Washington Post reported that Harp "often accompanies Trump on his daily golf outings,riding the course in a golf cart equipped with a laptop and sometimes a printer to show him uplifting news articles,online posts or other materials." [10] In an effort to remain in close physical proximity to him,she reportedly stayed in a locker room and a maid's room at his golf club after being denied traditional lodging. [11] [12]
In 2023,Harp joined Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. [1] In 2024,The Bulwark reported,citing anonymous sources,that Harp was the staffer who had posted a video that included references to a "unified Reich" on Trump's Truth Social account. [1] [4] The post was deleted 15 hours later. [13] She also posted some messages on Trump's behalf on his Truth Social account,and in July 2024 sent a series of angry text messages in his name to Miriam Adelson,a major Trump campaign donor,to complain about people running her super PAC;at the time,the super PAC was spending about $18 million per week on Trump campaign ads in three states. [14] [15]