The brother of a White House aide is calling his sister's boss a "national embarrassment" as he speaks out about her obsession with President Donald Trump that has now popped up in two books.
The Daily Beast and The Daily Mail reported that a family feud has become public after White House aide Natalie Harp’s brother spoke out, saying he is humiliated by her "very unhealthy" relationship with the president.
The new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reported that Harp drafted a string of love letters to the president that she would leave in his "personal spaces." This was prior to joining the White House staff.
"You are all that matters to me," she gushed in one letter. In another letter, she wrote about being "unworthy" of him.
It was enough that it concerned Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who reportedly asked herself, "Where am I?" the book said.
Mr. Harp said he was shocked to learn about the obsession and that a friend showed him The Daily Mail's preliminary story about a "glamorous new assistant" in the White House.
The two Harp's don't speak, so he told the Daily Mail, "I had no idea. And so it just kind of caused some cognitive dissonance. I don’t understand why my sister, or anyone, could want to work for Trump.”
Mr. Harp lives in Nicaragua and described himself as a "long-haired hippie." He said he was always closer to their father, while she was closer to their mother, who is "deeply religious" and "extremely conservative.
“It’s hard to believe that’s my sister and my mom,” Mr. Harp said, “I can’t connect with that vibe, so I’m just going to let it be.”
Their father died by suicide in the summer of the pandemic, July 2020. Mr. Harp said that his sister and mother wanted to tell people he "died in his sleep" rather than that he killed himself.
This isn't the first time Harp has been mentioned in a book about Trump. Biographer Michael Wolff first sounded the alarm about Harp in his book All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, recalled The Beast. There was so much concern about her that even the Secret Service considered her a “potential danger," the report said.
All of this has prompted Harp's brother to speak out about her "very unhealthy" relationship. "She's just like his fan club."
Miss Harp began at the far-right network OAN, where she spoke to him for the first time in 2019. One of Trump's pieces of legislation allowed Harp to try an experimental cancer treatment, which may very well have saved her life. That said, the Washington Post speculated that this story may not be entirely accurate.
She then became Trump's personal assistant and became the "human printer" because she followed him around with a portable printer, where she could ensure he could read things on paper rather than using technology. Trump infamously refuses to use emails.
The Haberman/Swan book talks about how much Trump reciprocates that love simply because she'll never leave him.
Trump once told his staff that Harp “was the only one who loved him as much as his wife and his kids."
“All of you will go off and make money,” Trump told his team. “She’ll never leave me.”