Early in his second term, Trump told his team that Harp "was the only one who loved him as much as his wife and his kids," according to Regime Change, a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
“All of you will go off and make money,” Trump said, according to the book. “She’ll never leave me.”
Haberman and Times reporter Jonathan Swan also wrote in their book “Regime Change,” released in July, that Harp left “adoring” and “intimate” letters to Trump that “raised the eyebrows of the Secret Service during the campaign,” Swan told CNN last month.
Harp's closeness to Trump was underscored last week when it was revealed that she was among the select few aides who accompanied him on a military plane out of Turkey after he snuck off Air Force One in a catering truck amid an Iranian assassination threat.
Other top officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House aide Stephen Miller, remained on the "decoy" Air Force One.
Preston [Harp, brother], 38, who now lives in Nicaragua, said he believes his sister sees Trump as "a kind of father figure" because their real father, (https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/natalie-harp-brother-says-trump-105252843.html) Robert Harp, who died by suicide in July 2020, had moved away from what Preston described as the "doctrine of U.S. exceptionalism." [Preston said Natalie's relationship with Trump was] "very unhealthy".
Mr. Trump has dismissed concerns about Ms. Harp, whom he calls “sweetie” and treats like a daughter, according to people close to him.
Donald Trump's executive assistant Natalie Harp is the woman behind his overnight Truth Social sprees, The Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-truth-social-late-night-posts-167cb47a) reported Tuesday.
Once, when Mr. Trump was playing golf in Scotland, she ran behind his cart to keep him up to date with positive stories and social media posts.
In 2023, Ms. Harp sent a series of letters to Mr. Trump that unnerved people around him, according to a half-dozen people with knowledge of them.
"You are all that matters to me,” she wrote in one of the letters, which were seen by The New York Times. The letters’ authenticity was confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of them.
“I don’t ever want to let you down,” Ms. Harp wrote, thanking Mr. Trump for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”
In another letter, she told Mr. Trump that she wanted to get back to “that synergy” she used to have with him, where “we’d talk about everything and nothing.”
“I want to bring you joy,” she wrote, “to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk ‘work.’”
