Natalie Harp once rode in the trunk of an SUV to join Trump at court
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- The Trunk Stowaway
- The Human Printer Running White House Communications
- She Exists Outside the Chain of Command
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New breaking details about Trump's fiercely loyal personal aid, Natalie Hara. Our Kristen
Holmes reporting tonight that HAP is physically close to Trump at all hours of the day. Sources also telling Kristen that HAP once jumped into the trunk of a vehicle in Trump's motorcade when she was told there was not room for her to travel with him to a hearing in a New York City courthouse in 2023. Now, Kristen is just breaking these new details,
and she is going to be with me in just a moment. It comes though as Trump today is getting hit again by Democrat John Oaf who has been coming out very aggressively and took his attacks somewhere that no other Democrat has dared to go. Bringing up Trump's relationship with Natalie Harp. Not long ago, Senator Oaf was somebody that very few Americans knew of.
But he is trying to change that. This is perhaps part of that strategy. Tonight,
he is going viral again, not letting up against Trump, the draft dodging crook president.
who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win. I've got two little girls at home and I do not want Eva and Laya to grow up in a world defined by the values of Donald J. Trump. You remember the president promised to bring down prices on day one. I would
address the president's few remaining supporters to contrast his promises with the results you've been delivered. Oaf is in a tough reelection fight in Georgia for the Senate, right? But Democrats
been delivered. Oaf is in a tough reelection fight in Georgia for the Senate, right? But Democrats
have been really casting about trying to find a great white hope and so some are talking about him as a potential 2028 presidential candidate already. And Osaf's feud with the president all started when he said this about Natalie Harp. He doesn't want to do the job. He wants
to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless crime palace.
And that hit a nerve when Trump was asked about it. He called Osaf Pee-Wee Herman. A White House aid compared the senator to a feminine theater kid. And another aid called Oaf nickname that is too vulgar to repeat on this show. But Harp's role does matter because anyone who spends as much time as she does with the commander-in-chief and has an important role as she does,
she matters. She's now one of Trump's closest and most trusted personal aids. She writes a
she matters. She's now one of Trump's closest and most trusted personal aids. She writes a lot of his social media posts, which of course have come to define his legacy.
The series The Art of the Surge showed this happening in real time during the 2024 DNC.
Do not limit access to birth control or IV trust women. That is a lie. Well, we trust women. I
trust women also to restore reproductive freedom and I will keep women safe of the United States.
I will proudly sign it into law. She won't. Now, Harp first came on Trump's radar in 2019 when she said that his right to try policy saved her life as she at the time was battling bone cancer. I'm
not dying from cancer anymore thanks to President Trump. I'm living with cancer. And then about a year after Trump left the White House, that's when Hart began to work for him at his Mara Lago resort in Florida. And since then, she has been by his side. She was one of just a few staffers uh taken
in Florida. And since then, she has been by his side. She was one of just a few staffers uh taken in the catering truck with Trump away from Air Force One. Cabinet Secretary stayed behind, but she along with others including Dan Scavenino uh were on that other plane. Now, I'm going to speak with HAP's estranged brother Preston in a moment uh who is raising concerns about his sister's
relationship with the president, a sister he says he loves very much. But I want to begin with Kristen Holmes out front. She is live at the White House with new breaking details. So Kristen, what more are you learning about Natalie Harp tonight? I I understand you've got a very specific story here that sheds some light on this very important staffer. Well, it just shows you how much she
cares about President Trump and how she wants to be in proximity to him. This was back in 2023 uh when President Trump was in court in New York and he was going down to head to the courthouse and the motorcade was waiting outside of Trump Tower when staffers realized that there weren't enough seats for Natalie Harp. hadn't accounted that she would be going down to the courthouse and she was
told that. Now, a screaming match then ensued in the lobby of Trump Tower at that time uh with
told that. Now, a screaming match then ensued in the lobby of Trump Tower at that time uh with essentially HARP saying that the president had personally asked her to go and she was determined so determined to not be left behind that she actually got in the trunk of one of the SUVs that was part of the motorcade and and sat there. It's almost like a cargo hold. And that was according
to multiple sources and to a photo that I obtained and reviewed that showed uh the space that she had been in and her sitting there. Uh it was really an extraordinary moment for so many people around President Trump who really, you know, things come and go in Trump world in terms of who gets a seat where, whether it's on the plane, whether it's in the motorcade. Uh but she was so determined she
was going to get that seat and go down to the court with President Trump. And what I learned through this reporting today is she's really made her role with President Trump indispensable. She
is the one who deals with lawmakers and allies and government liaons. She is texting them messages from President Trump, articles that President Trump wants these lawmakers to see and vice versa. They are reaching out to her if they want to get in touch with President Trump, if they want him to see something. you know, she's known as the human printer in part because she is
constantly printing out information for him so he has it at his fingertips. One of the things that a source told me is that he's often used how fast Natalie Harp is. Now, part of that is the fact that she is in proximity to President Trump all of the time. Uh we often see her when we go to these Oval Office events, she's standing just on the periphery of the room smiling, nodding along as
President Trump is speaking. And it really goes to her devotion. Now, I did talk to some people who said that she has ruffled feathers throughout her tenure uh with him both on the campaign and at the White House in particular because she insists that her boss that she only reports to President Trump, but she is actually a White House staffer and there are a plethora of other White House staffers
who actually operate within the chain of command. but she seems to exist kind of in a different plane here given the role that she's carved out for herself and she is uniquely influential in this White House and particularly when it comes to President Trump and and as you you point out Kristen someone who's uniquely influential with the president of the United States uh is
an important uh person for everyone to understand who they are and and what they are. So, thank you very much. I appreciate it Kristen and everyone's here with me. So, so Paul, um Kristen has a photo,
very much. I appreciate it Kristen and everyone's here with me. So, so Paul, um Kristen has a photo, okay, of um and Natalie Harp in the trunk of that SUV, right, in that back kind of crawl space, you know, between the back seats, I guess, and and the back. It's tight back there. Um to to go along with the president because she said that he wanted her there. She reports Kristen on this screaming
match that it happened in the lobby of Trump Tower. So, okay. How concerning is this? I think
it's pretty concerning. I mean, it's it's it's disconcerting. It's troubling. It's potentially
d I mean the woman was in the trunk of a vehicle. I mean I think there's a security concern. I'm
surprised the Secret Service allowed it. And I think I think I take a bigger step back. I mean
politically I think she is fair game because she's in such close proximity to the president. He's the
commander-in-chief. We're at war. The public has a right to know who she is, what her role is. But
I think about the standards here. I mean he does not have a good record on how he treats women. And
if that was my daughter and I found out she was in the trunk and she's been asked to do that, I would question everybody involved. I mean, Mark, it's interesting here, you know, as as in the context here of who she is. What Kristen's reporting, she's the person that world leaders will text when they want to make sure that something gets in front of the president because she has this
unique access, right? She has a really important role. Maybe Americans are just finding out about it because of Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, and the and the catering truck. But, but they should know about her. She's important. Stories like that are I think you're right. They are they are disconcerting and disturbing. Look, I I I I can't really know what as far as her being in the trunk
of a car. I know from being in a lot of different motorcades, we never asked a female staffer to sit in the trunk of a motor of a motorcade. But well, it sounds like Kristen saying she certainly wasn't asked to. She got there because she Yeah, I don't know. Maybe she she said, "I'm going to make myself go and I'm that's where I'm going to sit." I don't know. But the reality
the reality is that we know that President Trump is incredibly unorthodox in the way he manages the White House. And there's a lot of people who he's had close to him that he asked to do a lot of a lot of things engaged with international leaders. He did that with Dan Scavino a lot in the first administration. I think it's a fair point to say look these are if these are important
people they're having these conversations with that should have public you know transparency and accountability to the American people. But I think it is kind of um the way that he ran even the first administration. So, I mean, what do you say to that, Jamal? Listen, I was a personal aid to a
first administration. So, I mean, what do you say to that, Jamal? Listen, I was a personal aid to a cabinet secretary in the Clinton administration. Traveled a lot with that person all over the country, uh, all over the world. In fact, I never rode in the back of a in the trunk of a car, right? There's always another vehicle to get into. You can always, you know, find somewhere to
right? There's always another vehicle to get into. You can always, you know, find somewhere to squeeze in and to get where you want to go. This just seems very inappropriate. I got to tell you, all of it makes me kind of queasy to even think about it because we're not talking about the things that are actually affecting rural Americans lives. Like costs are going up and child care is
20% of what people pay and their monthly salaries. And instead, we're consumed by the president's personal habits because the president is the one who operates on this sphere. It's not like people are coming and talking about the president and and using this language because or using these stories because the president's so high-minded. The president's the one who operates kind of in the governor level of politics, including the official statements that came out of the White
House going after Senator John Oaf, the elected representative of the people of Georgia, using language that we cannot use on this show. Too vulgar. The whatever we I said those things, but the other things I'm not even going to quote. I wouldn't let my child use that language, let alone seeing a White House official use that kind of language in public. It's just pretty disgusting.
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