Donald Trump looks on as Natalie Harp places a computer playing a news report in the Oval Office on May 30, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Sipa USA via Reuters
Amidst growing controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s senior aide Natalie Harp, the Daily Beast reports that an “extraordinary” and “unhinged” video has been unearthed that raises new questions about her mental state and relationship to her octogenarian boss.
“The social media clip, recorded nine years ago, shows Harp, who was in her mid-20s at the time, claiming that she was the sole survivor of serious medical malpractice thanks to Trump,” reports the Daily Beast. Harp later repeated the claim in a viral online essay in 2019, but “many of the eyebrow-raising details listed in this first video were not repeated.”
As the Daily Beast explains, “The resurfaced clip, which is thought to have been recorded in 2017, shows that the letters that alarmed the Secret Service were certainly not the only clues that Harp had an unusually strong devotion to Trump.” The astonishing new set of love letters from Harp to Trump published on Thursday revealed the startling degree of her obsession with the president, which has many raising “serious national security questions about their relationship.”
“The latest video deepens those concerns,” writes the Daily Beast. Harp tells the camera, “Two years ago, I was the victim of a medical error. Accidentally infused with sterile water, I went into hemorrhagic shock, losing 100 percent of the average person’s blood platelets, but only 30 percent of my own. Thanks to a rare blood condition, I became the only survivor of sterile water infusion.” She went on to say she paid her own medical bills and was denied appointments – details the Daily Beast reports she “left out of an essay she later wrote on LinkedIn, which caught the attention of Fox News and then the president, after she appeared on the network to share her tale.”
She then played a clip in which Trump rants about politicians failing their suffering citizens. Notably, the Trump snippet doesn’t discuss medical policy at all. Harp concludes the video suggesting that Trump’s political interventions saved her life, without specifying how he was involved. “The elites thought they held the Trump card,” she says into the lens, wearing a pink MAGA hat. “But they didn’t count on Donald Trump — like I did.”
According to the Daily Beast, “Medical studies have described accidental infusions of sterile water as extremely rare, and there are documented cases of other patients surviving it, which doesn’t match Harp’s statements in the clip or the caption from Lanier describing her as the ‘only survivor of a Medical error that’s taken 4,000+ lives.’” The 96-second clip, filmed selfie-style beside a lake and intercut with footage from Trump’s speeches, was posted on Twitter in June 2018 by MAGA activist Kareem Lanier, but appears to have been filmed the year before.
In 2019, Harp claimed that she was saved by Trump’s support for a law called Right to Try, which allows terminally ill patients who have exhausted approved treatments to request experimental drugs. Trump signed the measure in May 2018 – after Harp shot the video thanking Trump for his intervention – so it is unclear how the law would have impacted her treatment.
