Natalie Harp

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Natalie Harp
Born1991 (age 32–33)
Education Point Loma Nazarene University (BA)
Liberty University (MBA)
Political party Republican

Natalie J. Harp (born 1991) [1] [2] is an American former television personality who works as an aide for President-elect Donald Trump. She is frequently known as a "human printer" for accompanying Trump throughout the day to provide him with articles she finds on the internet. She has also sent social media and text messages in Trump's name.

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Early life

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. [3]

From 2009 to 2012, Harp studied at Point Loma Nazarene University, a Christian liberal arts college in San Diego. [4] In 2015, she graduated with a MBA from Liberty University, an evangelical college in Virginia. [3]

Career

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 cancer. [1] [3] 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] [3] saying that "Without you, I'd have died waiting for [experimental drugs] to be approved". [3] 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. [5] [3] 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. [6] [3]

After 2020, Harp became an anchor for One America News Network, a far-right, pro-Trump cable channel known for its promotion of 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. [7] [8] 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." [9]

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] [3] The post was deleted 15 hours later. [10] 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. [11] [12]

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