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Template:Infobox officeholder Natalie Joy Harp is an American political aide and former television presenter who has served as the executive assistant to the president since 2025.

Harp graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University and from Liberty University in 2015 with an MBA. In 2019, she rose to prominence on Fox News after praising president Donald Trump for signing into law a federal right-to-try law that she claimed allowed her to access experimental treatments, saving her life. Trump invited Harp to serve as a member of the advisory board for his 2020 presidential campaign and to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention. Harp worked for One America News Network, a far-right television channel, from 2020 to 2022. She later became an aide for Trump, exerting influence over his communications.

In January 2025, Trump named Harp as his executive assistant to the president.

Early life and education (1991–2015)

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Natalie Joy Harp was born to a devoutly Christian family.[1] Harp's father is an estate agent who founded a consultancy for travel companies.[2] She graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2012 and from Liberty University in 2015 with an MBA.[3]

Cancer

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Harp has described being diagnosed as having a form of bone cancer.[4] She described being given drugs, that didn't work. She described being denied new drugs, that hadn't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), drugs she had reason would help her, only to have her life saved by a law that was a Trump initiative, commonly called the "Right to Try" law. Medical experts who have looked into her case have challenged her account. They have challenged it on several issues. Doctors routinely prescribe drugs for the specific purposes for which they are approved. Doctors can also prescribe drugs approved, as safe, by the FDA, for purposes other than the purposes for which their efficacy had been tested. Medical experts say the second drug she was prescribed, the one that worked, was not prohibited, it just hadn't had its efficacy officially tested for her disease. This prescription did not require the "Right to Try" law Trump backed. And her medical log showed she had been prescribed this drug before the "Right to Try law had been passed.

Harp continues to give speeches where she credits Trump with saving her life.

Career

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Trump work and Republican National Committee speech (2019–2020)

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By 2017, Harp had become vocally critical of the healthcare in the United States after she began suffering from health issues, particularly chronic pain and complications incurred by a medical error involving intravenous therapy for stage II bone cancer.[5] She praised president Donald Trump for signing into law a federal right-to-try law that she claimed allowed her to access experimental treatments, saving her life, on Fox News in 2019;[1] according to experts who spoke to The Washington Post, Harp's description of her treatment casts doubt on the veracity of her claim.[5] Trump invited Harp to speak at the Republican National Convention in August 2020.[1] Her speech compared Trump to George Bailey, the protagonist of It's a Wonderful Life (1946),[6] leading to criticism from the family of the character's actor, Jimmy Stewart.[7] By that month, she had become a member of the advisory board for Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.[8]

One America News Network and return to Trump (2020–2024)

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Trump and Harp traveling to watch the 2025 US Open – Men's singles

Harp began working for One America News Network, a far-right television channel, as a presenter in 2020,[9] promoting false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.[10] In April 2022, she left the network amid an exodus after DirecTV refused to carry the channel.[11] Months later, she became an aide for Trump in his 2024 presidential campaign.[12] She often accompanied Trump when he played golf, bringing a printer and a laptop to show him articles;[12] Harp's use of a printer, which began from Trump's preference for paper news,[13] led to her being given the nickname of the "human printer".[1] She has additionally posted to Truth Social on Trump's behalf, including a post that announced he had received a target letter in the election obstruction case, surprising other aides.[12] According to The Bulwark, Harp had reposted a video of faux newspaper headlines in May 2024 hypothesizing a Trump victory that included the words "unified Reich".[10]

In his book All or Nothing (2025), the journalist Michael Wolff described Harp as a "gatekeeper".[3] 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.[14] Her proximity to Trump concerned other aides,[15] some of whom attributed Trump's relationship with Harp to her decision to remain with him after the January 6 Capitol attack.[1] Aides who spoke to The New York Times described Harp as 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 letter Harp had allegedly sent to Trump stating that he was "all that matters to [her]" in 2023.[1] Her access to Trump allowed individuals to send damaging clips of their rivals to her,[1] and she served as an avenue for the political activist Laura Loomer to influence Trump.[15] In August, it was reported that Trump had directed her to send angry text messages to the financier Miriam Adelson in his name the previous month,[16] nearly costing Adelson's support.[1] She had provided Trump with an image of him wielding a baseball bat near Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's head in advance of his indictment.[1]

Executive assistant to the president (2025–present)

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In November 2024, after Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, The New York Times wrote that Harp was set to serve in his administration.[1] That month, she posted a private message sent to Trump by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that was intended to be private.[1] In January 2025, Harp became Trump's executive assistant to the president.[17] She continued to take dictation of social media posts for Trump.[18]

Notes

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Haberman & Swan 2024b.
  2. ↑ Pavia 2024.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wolff 2025, p. 32.
  4. ↑ "RNC speaker Natalie Harp says President Trump saved her life" (video). One America News Network via YouTube. August 26, 2020. Retrieved January 15, 2026. President Trump has been credited with saving countless American lives during the pandemic. Long before COVID-19, he was saving the lives of people like Trump campaign advisory board member Natalie Harp.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wan 2020.
  6. ↑ Poniewozik 2020.
  7. ↑ Sharf 2020.
  8. ↑ Astor 2020.
  9. ↑ Fellmann 2024.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Caputo 2024.
  11. ↑ Daniels 2022.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Helderman et al. 2022.
  13. ↑ McGraw 2024.
  14. ↑ Isenstadt 2025, p. 24.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Arnsdorf, Dawsey & Alemany 2023.
  16. ↑ Haberman & Swan 2024a.
  17. ↑ Lahut 2025.
  18. ↑ Harwell, Morse & Davies 2025.

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