During President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, Natalie Harp – an aide known as the "human printer" — reportedly alarmed Trump's Secret Service detail with her obsessive attitude and remarks, though Trump himself apparently encouraged it.
That's according to an excerpt of author Michael Wolff's forthcoming book, which was published by Vanity Fair on Thursday. The Daily Beast reported that Harp, who is 34 years old, was said to have exhibited behavior toward her boss that put Secret Service agents on edge. Wolff's sources told him that Trump's personal security detail viewed Harp as a "potential danger to herself as well as to the president."
“The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior,” Wolff wrote in his book All or Nothing, which is about Trump's return to power. “'Nonsense,' declared Trump. ‘She just loves her president.’”
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Harp, who was a former anchor for the far-right, pro-Trump outlet One America News Network, allegedly wrote letters that included statements like: “You are all that matters to me,” “I don’t ever want to let you down" and “I want to bring you joy." Her "fixation" with the president was apparently an "open secret" among Trump's staffers, with some saying they found her behavior "discomfiting."
After joining Trump's campaign team in 2022, she eventually worked her way up to being the "keeper of the Truth phone," meaning she was "wholly in charge of the Trump posts" on his Truth Social platform. Harp was notably the one who posted the controversial "unified Reich" video that was later deleted. She was known for accompanying Trump everywhere he went, using a portable printer to hand Trump hard copies of flattering articles and social media posts praising him.
Harp's reported "obsession with Trump and her lovestruck adulation" was also seen in her attempt to be physically closer to Trump at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course in 2023. Initially, she wasn't offered on-site housing at Bedminster, but eventually was given a maid's room. But Wolff noted that she wasn't satisfied with those accommodations.
"[W]hen 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," Wolff wrote.
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Click here to read the Beast's full report, and click here to read Vanity Fair's coverage of Wolff's book (subscriptions required).