Natalie Harp, a close aide to Donald Trump, once traveled in the trunk of an SUV so she could accompany him to court when there was no available seat in the vehicle, CNN reported.
The striking anecdote surfaced as Harp, now serving as the president’s executive assistant, became part of an escalating clash between the White House and Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff.
According to CNN’s report published Tuesday, the unusual ride took place in October 2023, when Trump traveled to a New York City courtroom during President Joe Biden’s administration.
The network, citing two unnamed sources, reported that Harp had been involved in what was described as a “screaming match” with other staff members after saying Trump had personally asked for her to be there.
After being told there was no space left inside the SUV, Harp reportedly found her own solution by riding in the back. CNN cited the episode as one example of how her approach has at times irritated members of Trump’s inner circle.
Aides praise Harp’s total loyalty
One adviser told CNN that Trump “likes the attention and the fact that she is 100 percent committed and loyal.” The same source added: “She doesn’t question, doesn’t second guess.”
The report landed as the White House sharply criticized Ossoff, widely viewed as a possible 2028 presidential prospect, after he referenced Harp at a Sunday rally for his Senate reelection campaign.
Speaking to supporters, Ossoff said: “[Trump] 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.”
White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told The Daily Mail that Ossoff’s character and voting record were, in his view, equally poor.
“Natalie Harp is one of the most loyal and hardest working aides on President Trump’s team,” Ingle said in response to the CNN report.
Trump team attacks Ossoff record
He continued: “Jon Ossoff is a feminine theatre kid who voted to massively raise taxes, give illegal immigrants free taxpayer-funded healthcare, and defund federal immigration enforcement and Border Patrol. Lightweight Jon’s rhetoric is cringeworthy, but his extreme voting record is dangerous.”
The remarks mirrored an earlier combative response from White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who also pushed back against Ossoff on Monday.
‘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,’ he wrote.
Trump himself called Ossoff a ‘Pee-wee Herman lookalike’ and said that ‘we’re fixing a White House that hasn’t been taken care of’ in response to the ‘build the ballroom’ statement.
Ossoff responded to the media interest in his comments in an interview with MS Now Monday night, saying he referred to Harp because he believes she’s one of his ‘enablers.’
‘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,’ he said.
Trump furious over personal attacks
Administration officials told Semafor Tuesday that they consider Ossoff’s statement a ‘cheap shot’ and that they feel the need to combat his misinformation over potentially upsetting First Lady Melania Trump.
A person close to the White House said that ‘the first lady doesn’t like these types of things’ and that the President ‘does get furious’ about what he sees as personal attacks.
Harp has been one of Trump’s closest aides for years and is dubbed the ‘human printer’ as she carries bundles of news articles around for him to read.
She was among a handful of aides including Trump’s former caddy Dan Scavino who switched planes with him on the tarmac in Ankara.
Israeli intelligence had warned of an impending Iranian attack on Air Force One. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were left on the plane with dozens of journalists.
Harp is never far from the President and is trusted with taking dictation on the market-moving posts he makes to his Truth Social account, where he often announces major decisions such as strikes on Iran or tariffs on foreign countries.
Harp’s brother speaks out publicly
She once ran behind his golf cart while he was playing in Scotland to keep him up to date with the latest news headlines.
Harp is Trump’s ‘connective tissue,’ sources told Our News Outlet, with some pointing out that she has more access than even his chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Harp famously wrote, ‘You’re all that matters to me,’ in a letter to Trump published by the New York Times in 2024.
Preston Harp, Natalie’s socialist brother who fled to Central America, has said that his sister’s relationship with the president is ‘very unhealthy.’
‘She’s just like his fan club,’ Preston said from his new adoptive homeland of Nicaragua in an interview with The Daily Mail in July.
Preston moved to the Central American country in 2023 to live under the authoritarian rule of Daniel Ortega, who has called Trump ‘mentally deranged’ for his handling of the war in Iran.
He had no idea his sister had started working for Trump until a friend pointed him to a Daily Mail article about a ‘glamorous new assistant’ in March 2023.
‘He’s like, “Hey, did you see Our News Outlet?” And he’s like, “No, look at this,” and I’m like, “Oh my gosh, my sister’s in Our News Outlet, and working for Trump!”,’ he said.
‘And I had no idea,’ he added. ‘And so it just kind of caused some cognitive dissonance.’
‘I don’t understand why my sister, or anyone could want to work for Trump.’
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