Trump biographer exposes his inner circle's 'appalled' reaction to sycophantic aide

A prominent biographer of President Donald Trump has exposed new details about the reaction within his administration to his unusually sycophantic young aide, claiming that some in his inner circle have been "appalled" by the situation.

Natalie Harp, 34, is an executive assistant to the president, having previously worked at the right-wing One America News Network prior to becoming his full-time aide during his years away from the White House. She has become known to those close to Trump or familiar with his close associates as a "human printer," carrying around a portable printer that allows her to share hard copies of positive news coverage or social media posts about him, no matter where he goes. This, many have observed, has given her an inordinate amount of sway over the information that Trump receives.

Her oddly close relationship to the president has been documented since the start of his second term, with reports emerging that her "obsession" with him had raised alarms in the Secret Service, but she returned to the news spotlight in recent weeks after new revelations about her, including her adoring letters to Trump, were exposed in a new book from reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

Michael Wolff is a longtime journalist and author, best known for his extensive coverage of Trump's personal and political lives, and in the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," he provided his own details about Harp, her conduct concerning the president and the alarm that it has caused within his administration.

"Everything that he reads is funneled through Natalie Harp because she’s the human printer," Wolff explained. "The stuff that she prints out is this laudatory stuff. Anything laudatory, she’s searching for at all times and then giving to the president. Other things that will cause him ire—actually, that would be her agenda. So things that cause her ire—that will also cause the president's ire—that goes to him.”

Haberman and Swan's book generated significant headlines about Harp's letters to Trump, specifically one in which she proclaims that, "You are all that matters to me." Speaking further about her role, Wolff revealed more of the things that Harp has written in these messages.

“In this pile of papers, she also frequently includes personal notes to him, and notes that, you know, [say] ‘You’re the alpha and the omega,’ ‘The be all and end all,’ ‘What would I be without you?’” Wolff added.

He continued later: “Natalie Harp’s story is a piece of work. Everybody was in a major kerfuffle over this, including the Secret Service warning the president of the United States, or warning aides to the president whose job it was then to bring to the president whether they did or not, that they saw her as a danger to herself and to him... Those notes, the Natalie Harp notes, were passed to me by other aides of the president who were equally as appalled by this. And that’s one of the things that exists, currently, in the Trump White House, this tension that this is a person who the president has allowed to become really his closest confidant.”

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