Relationship With Female Staffer CALLED OUT By Press and Senators
Trump is lashing out at the press as questions grow over his relationship with longtime aide Natalie Harp and Melania Trump’s absence from major public events. The scrutiny intensified after Sen. Jon Ossoff publicly questioned Harp’s unusually close role in Trump’s inner circle. Trump is now attacking CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes after she questioned him. Popok reports. Subscribe: youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: Subscribe to Legal AF's Substack Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: Legal AF (@legalafmtn.bsky.social) Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: POPOK (@mspopok.bsky.social) Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: Legal AF by MeidasTouch Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: The Intersection with Michael Popok Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: Unprecedented by Legal AF Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: The Court of History
Natalie Harp - Wikipedia
According to the journalist Alex Isenstadt, in one instance, Trump's wife Melania discovered Harp in his private quarters—an area reserved for the Trump family—delivering papers to him at night. Her proximity to Trump concerned other aides, some of whom attributed Trump's relationship with Harp to her decision to remain with him after the January 6 Capitol attack. Aides who spoke to The New York Times called Harp a "conduit" and an "instant enabler of his impulses". Trump purportedly remarked that Harp was the only aide who cared about him after his arraignment in connection with the Georgia election racketeering prosecution, according to the Times. The paper additionally reported on a series of letters Harp sent Trump in 2023 that unnerved people in Trump's inner circle, citing phrases such as "You are all that matters to me" and "I want to bring you joy." Her access to Trump allowed people to send her damaging clips of their rivals and she served as an avenue for the political activist Laura Loomer to influence Trump. In August, The New York Times reported that Trump had directed her to send angry text messages to the financier Miriam Adelson in his name the previous month, nearly costing Adelson's support. She provided Trump with an image of him wielding a baseball bat near Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's head in advance of his indictment.
Executive assistant to the president (2025–present)
In November 2024, after Trump won the 2024 presidential election, The New York Times wrote that Harp was set to serve in his administration. That month, she posted a message sent to Trump by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that was intended to be private. In January 2025, Harp became Trump's executive assistant to the president. She continued to take dictation of social media posts for Trump. According to Regime Change, Dan Scavino, who had handled Trump's social media accounts, largely gave control of Trump's Truth Social account to Harp. She was responsible for posting a video that included an allegedly racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes and for posting an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus.