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Secret Service Thinks One of Trump’s Aides Might Be a Little Too Obsessed With Him, ‘Danger to Herself and the President’
This would be hilarious if it wasn't so disturbing.
It’s not quite the “Leave Britney Alone!” girl, but it’s close. A new report from Vanity Fair based on an excerpt from an upcoming book says that the Secret Service at one point considered a Trump aide a “potential danger to herself as well as to the president” because of her strange and sometimes unnatural adoration of Donald Trump.
We’ve written about her before, of course. It’s Natalie Harp, the so-called “human printer” who would follow Trump around on his golf course with a portable printer to show him articles that were favorable to him. Late last year, we told you about some disturbing letters she wrote to Trump to prove her devotion, and it was apparently enough that it set his Secret Service detail on edge.
The phrases “You are all that matters to me,” “I don’t ever want to let you down,” and “I want to bring you joy” were among the things she wrote in her letters, according to the upcoming book All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America by Michael Wolff. It’s an account of his 2024 campaign from the perspective of a journalist who had access to Trump’s inner circle throughout the campaign.
The author says Harp had a relationship of “alarming intimacy or one of genuinely strange submissiveness” with Donald Trump, and it unnerved those around him. He further said that Harp’s “fixation” with Trump was an “open secret” among his staff. But it was the “aggressiveness of her attention” that caught the Secret Service’s eye.
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In fact, the Secret Service got their hands on the actual letters, Wolff writes, which Harp would slip into stacks of papers that she’d hand to Trump during the course of the day. Upon bringing their concerns to Trump himself, he reportedly dismissed his security detail’s concerns. “She just loves her president,” he told them.
The Secret Service, in fact, officially advised that Harp “was, as a security consideration […] a potential danger to herself as well as to the president.” But just as in his first administration, Trump suffers from a staggering lack of people with the temerity to tell him anything negative at all.
When The Daily Beast wrote about all of this, in fact, the communications apparatus at the White House referred them to a Fox News Digital report with the headline “Meet Natalie Harp, Trump’s ‘valuable resource’ who lawmakers say is ‘critical’ to his operation.” In it, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox that Harp was “a trusted and valued member of President Trump’s team.”
He didn’t even stop there with the sparkling commentary: “And she is certainly a big reason why his operation has been as successful as it has ever been,” he said. “Her work ethic and dedication to helping President Trump achieve his historic victory is second to none.”
That really doesn’t sound like anyone was warning Trump he might have a Fatal Attraction scenario about to play out before his very eyes.
Wolff set the scene for one particularly disturbing anecdote by nothing that Trump had an “avuncular and flirtatious” relationship with the “attractive women who worked for him.” What guy doesn’t like attention from pretty women, right?

Trump apparently called them “Charlie’s Angels,” which is a testament to both his delusion about being some kind of heroic good guy and his obsession with the era in which he was relevant as a non-political public figure.
Harp was among those in Trump’s entourage, along with fellow it-girls — I mean, lawyers — Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan when Trump went to the NCAA wrestling championship in 2023 in Oklahoma.
As he normally does around women, Trump turned the subject from sports to sex: “Trump’s subject of discourse at the NCAA event was which wrestlers the ‘ladies’ found most attractive,” writes Wolff. “Everyone seemed happy to play along, critiquing the various bodies, rating them as their type or not. But Natalie couldn’t be moved.”
You know where this is going. In fact, so did Trump, to the point that he pressed Harp on the issue, “trying to make her obvious point even more obvious to everyone listening in with disbelief and embarrassment.” And that point was that she only had “eyes” for Donald Trump.
When Trump went back to Bedminster in the summer of 2023, his team tried to address what had by then become known as “the Natalie situation” by refusing to provide her housing there. She came anyway, by getting herself a maid’s room through the staff at the country club. Then, when that proved to be too far away for her to “respond quickly enough to Trump’s calls,” she moved into the women’s locker room, “where, with undiminished proximity to Trump, she would spend the summer,” Wolff writes.

Trump used her devotion to his advantage. As her “obsession with Trump and her lovestruck adulation” became more apparent, Wolff says, she became even more central to his team, even becoming “the keeper of the ‘Truth’ phone,” the device from which all of his Truth Social posts originate.
Team Trump denies all of this, of course. But Trump loves to craft a good storyline, and it sure seems like he’s given a lot of access to a man who’s already written a number of books about him. Let the stories germinate, deny them publicly, and live out a gripping television episode of a life.
It would make for a great episode of Charlie’s Angels, I guess.

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