Author Michael Wolff claims that President Trump's personal assistant Natalie Harp was granted special treatment when she joined the team in 2022, including access to an exclusive Sunday buffet at Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The perk allowed her and her mother to attend the buffet, which other staffers were not permitted to do. Wolff says this favoritism raised eyebrows among fellow employees, who questioned whether Harp should have been given such privileges. According to Wolff, concerned staffers had tipped him off about Harp's letters to Trump, in which she expressed her devotion and feelings of inadequacy serving the president.
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Natalie Harp, a 35-year-old Californian and cancer survivor, has become one of Donald Trump's closest and most devoted aides, working as his special assistant to the president and executive assistant on an annual salary of $150,000. She was introduced at the 2020 Republican national convention as "a formerly forgotten American from California" and compared Trump with George Bailey from the film "It's a Wonderful Life". Harp has been in the spotlight recently after Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator, accused Trump of wanting to "build his ballroom and travel with Natalie" instead of attending to official duties.
Harp has been nicknamed the "human printer" for supplying Trump with print-outs of information. However, her role in the administration has come under scrutiny, including reports that she was smuggled onto a military plane with Trump to escape a suspected Iranian threat and sat in the trunk of an SUV to accompany him to a courthouse in 2023.
Trump reportedly joked that Harp could replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary, but this has raised questions about her security clearance. It was discovered that Harp worked at the White House for over a year without the routine clearance, refusing to file the relevant forms until the White House counsel's office intervened.
Harp has also been criticized for writing letters to Trump expressing her devotion to him, calling herself "unworthy" of serving him. Michael Wolff, an author who has written about Trump, revealed that Harp was granted a special perk when she first joined his team - access to an exclusive Sunday buffet at Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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President Donald Trump’s personal assistant Natalie Harp enjoyed a special perk when she first joined his team that raised eyebrows among fellow staffers, according to author Michael Wolff.
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Harp, 35, a former One America News anchor, has become a fixture at Trump’s side since 2022 and has recently attracted attention over the nature of their relationship after Wolff obtained a pair of gushing letters in which she expressed her devotion to him, writing: “You are all that matters to me.”
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Speaking to The Daily Beast’s Inside Trump’s Head podcast, Wolff – the author of several controversial books about the president, including Fire and Fury (2018) and All or Nothing (2025) – revealed that Harp’s being granted access to an exclusive, all-you-can-eat Sunday buffet at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, was met with astonishment by her fellow employees.
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“The staffers... like, I mean, they get teary-eyed, their eyes roll back, because they’re actually not allowed to go to the buffet,” Wolff told the show’s co-host Joanna Coles Tuesday, emphasizing its bountiful, “over the top” spread, offering ham, lobster, omelettes and fresh fruit.
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Wolff → mean → ham
“Natalie was always allowed into the buffet,” he continued.
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Among the staff there was like, ‘Is she allowed to do that?
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Should she be doing that?’
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“And then the people at the golf club serving this: ‘Should we?...
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She says that the president says she can be here, but can she be here?’
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That became... a major moment within the campaign: Natalie at the buffet.”
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Wolff told the same podcast last week that concerned staffers had tipped him off about Harp’s letters to the president.
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“They were worried that this person, Natalie Harp, who was then 30 years old... no background whatsoever, had come to... take more and more and more of... candidate Trump’s attention, and become more and more central to what he knew, what he believed, the opinions that he had at any given moment
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,” he said.
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Prior to their publication, Harp had already provoked media interest after it emerged she was one of the select members of the president’s entourage he had chosen to join him in being whisked away from a Turkish airport in July in a secret secondary plane – which he had boarded via a catering truck – after Iran made a threat against his life.
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While the likes of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the traveling press corps were left aboard Air Force One, Trump, Harp and fellow aides Dan Scavino and Walt Nauta escaped to the U.K. together before rejoining their colleagues to cross the Atlantic.
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After the emergence of the letters, in which she also told Trump she felt “unworthy” of serving him, MS NOW reported that Harp had gone more than a year without securing the routine security clearance West Wing staffers are usually expected to obtain, raising concerns about what classified material she might have seen.
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White House spokesman Davis Ingle has told The Independent that Harp “is one of the most loyal and hardest-working aides on President Trump’s team.”
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He has also attacked the journalist at the center of the storm, saying in a statement: “Michael Wolff is a professional scumbag and serial liar whose brain has been completely warped by his severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
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The focus on Harp has nevertheless been used as a stick with which to beat the president.
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Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff said at a rally in Atlanta last week: “He doesn’t want to do his job.
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He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.
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Leavitt, Ingle and White House Communications Director Steven Cheung all attacked Ossoff, as did CNN’s resident conservative Scott Jennings, demanding that he apologize for the insinuating remark, but he has so far declined to do so.
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Trump himself angrily compared the senator to the 1980s children’s entertainer Pee-Wee Herman, leading Ossoff to stand back and admire the “meltdown” he had inspired.
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Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell has since followed suit, responding to Trump’s threat to rename Lake Ontario amid his trade feud with Canada by suggesting rechristening it “Lake Natalie” in Harp’s honor.
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