The Secret Service became concerned about a devoted female Trump aide to the point where they considered her a “potential danger to herself as well as to the president,” according to a report.
An excerpt from Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book chronicling Donald Trump’s return to power published by Vanity Fair includes alleged details of the president’s relationship with Natalie Harp—a former One America News Network anchor who joined Trump’s campaign in 2022.
The New York Times reported in November that Harp—who was referred to by colleagues as the “human printer” because she followed Trump around with a portable printer to give him printouts of information to spare him from looking at screens—penned adoring letters to Trump in 2023 that “unnerved” people in his orbit.
She allegedly wrote: “You are all that matters to me,” “I don’t ever want to let you down,” and “I want to bring you joy” in the notes. A spokesperson for Trump at the time said Harp, 34, was “trusted and valued” and praised her “work ethic and dedication” in supporting Trump’s election campaign.
According to Wolff, Harp’s “fixation” was an “open secret” among Trump’s staff, who found it “discomfiting,” and the alleged “aggressiveness of her attention” also became a security concern. Trump was nevertheless dismissive about there being an issue, Wolff writes in All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, out Feb. 25.
“The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior,” Wolff writes. “Nonsense, declared Trump. ‘She just loves her president.’”
Wolff later also writes that the Secret Service advised that Harp “was, as a security consideration [...] a potential danger to herself as well as to the president.”
“But no one was going to tell Trump that,” Wolff adds.
In response to a request for comment, the White House pointed The Daily Beast to remarks made by Steven Cheung—now the White House Communications Director—to Fox News Digital in December.
In a glowing piece with the headline “Meet Natalie Harp, Trump’s ‘valuable resource’ who lawmakers say is ‘critical’ to his operation,” Cheung described Harp at the time as “a trusted and valued member of President Trump’s team.”
“And she is certainly a big reason why his operation has been as successful as it has ever been,” he added. “Her work ethic and dedication to helping President Trump achieve his historic victory is second to none.”
The Daily Beast has also contacted the Secret Service for comment.
According to Wolff’s account, Trump had an “avuncular and flirtatious” relationship with the “attractive women who worked for him,” whom the president referred to as “Charlie’s Angels.”
Wolff writes that Harp was in the entourage—along with his lawyers Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan—who joined Trump at the NCAA wrestling championship in Oklahoma in 2023. “Trump’s subject of discourse at the NCAA event was which wrestlers the ‘ladies’ found most attractive,” according to Wolff. “Everyone seemed happy to play along, critiquing the various bodies, rating them as their type or not. But Natalie couldn’t be moved.”
Trump reportedly pressed her on the matter, “trying to make her obvious point even more obvious to everyone listening in with disbelief and embarrassment,” which Wolff claims was that she only had “eyes” for Trump.
Harp, who credits Trump’s “Right to Try” law with saving her life by allowing her to access experimental treatments for her bone cancer, also amused and impressed Trump with her tenacity to remain close to him when his staff tried to create distance between them, according to Wolff.
He writes that when Trump returned to Bedminster, New Jersey, in the summer of 2023, his team tried to address what was “deemed officially ‘the Natalie situation’” by not providing her housing there.
She nevertheless showed up after contacting staff at Trump’s country club to secure herself a maid’s room, according to Wolff. “And when that proved too far from the main house to respond quickly enough to Trump’s calls, she relocated herself to the much closer women’s locker room, where, with undiminished proximity to Trump, she would spend the summer,” he writes.
Wolff claims that as Harp’s alleged “obsession with Trump and her lovestruck adulation” became increasingly obvious, she also became increasingly integral to his operations. She contacted lawmakers on his behalf and became the “the keeper of the ‘Truth’ phone,” according to Wolff, making her “wholly in charge of the Trump posts” online.
In November, the senior staff of the Trump campaign released a statement saying they’d refused to respond to Wolff’s inquiries and encouraging others to “completely disregard whatever nonsense he eventually publishes.”
“Consider this our blanket response to whatever he writes,” the statement read.
