EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Trump’s assistant Natalie Harp said “confidentiality, speed, accuracy and adaptability” were key to the president’s performance, while lawmakers who communicate with her regularly told Fox News Digital they were “critical” to that is to ensure that Congress is a “true partner” for the incoming administration.

Harp has worked with the president-elect throughout his campaign and transition since 2022. The 33-year-old is expected to work with the president in the White House for his second term, and Trump transition team sources say she will have an “important role” in the White House.

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But according to several top lawmakers, governors and members of Trump’s team, Harp is more than just an aide.

Sources close to the transition team told Fox News Digital that Harp has been a “valuable resource” in providing “timely” information to the president.

Steven Cheung, Trump transition team spokesman and incoming White House communications director, told Fox News Digital that Harp is “a trusted and valued member of President Trump’s team.”

“And it’s certainly a big reason why his operation has never been more successful,” Cheung told Fox News Digital. “Their work ethic and commitment to helping President Trump achieve his historic victory are unmatched.”

“I think she’s an extra set of eyes and ears for President Trump,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wy., told Fox News Digital. “Every time I was with him, she was close to me.”

Barrasso said Harp regularly communicates with him and other senators and members of Congress via text message.

“I text her when I need to reach the president,” Barrasso explained. “If he doesn’t answer the phone, I know to go to Natalie and he’ll get the message.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also said he was going to Harp to handle everything from “golf to the most sensitive foreign policy issues.”

“If you want to make a point to President Trump, she’s the person to talk to,” Graham told Fox News Digital. “I trust Natalie to keep everything I communicate with President Trump confidential. She’s very committed to the president – ​​she’s very loyal and always professional and always polite.”

Graham added: “She will respond promptly to inquiries from senators – that’s what I’ve heard from others – and I feel like when I communicate with Natalie, I communicate with a sense of trust.”

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Harp praised the president for “really investing time in building a network of allies in Congress, in the media and in business that is second to none.” She said these relationships have “deep roots” and attributed them to accessibility.

“Communication via phone and text message is always open,” Harp said.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster told Fox News Digital he had worked directly with Harp “on many occasions.”

“She is the ultimate professional – very motivated, disciplined and loyal,” McMaster said. “She has served President Trump and our country well and will continue to do so.”

Harp set up a “mobile office” for the president during the campaign, telling Fox News Digital that she did so because the president wanted to remain “available.”

“When it comes to breaking news, it doesn’t matter where you are. That’s how our mobile office came to be,” said Harp. “Often the president wants to put his thoughts on paper, so I take the dictation, print it out, and then he works on it until he finds the right words for a viral truth.”

Harp said she came up with the idea of ​​purchasing a mobile printer to “speed up the process,” noting that printers are “not always accessible” on the golf course or on the go.

And Harp said the design is “to get real-time, up-to-date information that we can act on, and vice versa.”

Harp told Fox News Digital that she regularly communicates with this network of allies, sending newspaper clippings and even questioning members of Congress about current issues and legislation.

“He can whip up the vote in practically a matter of minutes,” Harp said.

Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital that Harp is “keeping us updated” on Capitol Hill.

“If you want a Congress that is a real partner for the new president, sharing information is important,” Jackson told Fox News Digital. “Natalie is instrumental in helping members of Congress feel like they are part of the presidential team.”

But when working for the president, “confidentiality, speed, accuracy and adaptability” are “the nature of the job,” Harp said.

“The president deserves nothing less,” Harp told Fox News Digital. “Yes, he works around the clock, but it never feels like he’s pushing us or pushing us to work harder. Rather, he inspires us to be more and do more because he himself leads by example.”

Asked what kind of information Harp brings to the president or shares with his allies, she said: “It depends.”

“During the various witch hunts, I researched what legal experts and academics had written about the cases. When we were campaigning, I monitored the reviews to see which parts of the president’s message resonated best,” she explained. “I have a large database of websites that I source from. Sometimes I go through them one by one, checking the top headlines and when I see one on a topic the president has spoken about or is interested in, I grab it.”

Harp traveled with the president throughout the campaign, spent days in court while fighting now-dismissed cases against him, and even attended both assassination attempts in July in Butler, Pennsylvania, and at the Trump International Golf Course in Palm Beach in September with him. Florida.

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“We have a deep faith in God, but now a ‘miracle’ is something we have not only read about but experienced, not just once but twice,” Harp said. “Some have said they see a ‘changed’ Donald Trump after two assassination attempts. I have a different opinion. These heartbreaking experiences did not change him, but showed the world who he always was.”

Harp said this is “the same misconception that the 2024 presidential election is the story of Donald Trump’s comeback.”

“That’s not it. He would be the first to say that – he never went anywhere. It’s others who left only to return, or who never gave him a chance, who are finally coming around,” Harp said. “That’s not to say that the president hasn’t changed at all over the years, but rather that the essence of who he is has only become more visible.”

Harp recalled being in court with the president and “occasionally closing his eyes and listening.”

“He is on a completely different level, at peace with God and unwaveringly focused. Nothing can get to him because for him his comfort comes second and his goal comes first,” Harp said of the president. “If people could tune out the noise and prejudices of those who intentionally or unintentionally misunderstand him, they would see the heart of a man who had everything but continues to risk everything for love of country, etc., the American people.”

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Harp studied business administration at Point Loma University and received her Master of Business Administration from Liberty University.

Harp, who battled and survived stage two bone cancer, credits Trump’s 2018 “Right to Try” law with saving her life. The measure allows terminally ill patients access to drug treatments that have not yet been fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Harp wrote an op-ed in 2019 about her experience with Right to Try that went viral. In June 2019, she appeared on “Fox & Friends” to tell her story. After her appearance, Trump tweeted, “Proud of Natalie!” and invited her to the stage at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference at his next event in Washington DC, where she called him her “Good Samaritan.”

“Donald Trump not only believes in miracles, he helps make them happen,” Harp told Fox News Digital.

Barrasso, a doctor, echoed Harp’s opinion on the right to try, saying it was “a great success” of the legislation.

“It’s possible she couldn’t survive,” Barrasso said. “The fact that she is still with us is a miracle in itself and she wants to spend every day thanking God for what she has and she does very, very much with and for President Trump. “

Harp later joined the 2020 Trump presidential campaign advisory board and spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention.

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“She keeps everyone in a really good mood, and most importantly, she keeps the president in a really good mood, and I think she was key to his success throughout the campaign,” Rep. Ronny told Jackson Fox News Digital. “As a doctor, from a psychological perspective, you also feel better when you are around people who are in a good mood, who laugh, who smile – that’s human nature – and I think that’s important.” someone like that Natalie there, who never gets angry about anything.

“She’s the first one up in the morning and the last one to go to bed,” Jackson said. “The incredible work ethic combined with her bubbly personality is a unique combination that is really good for President Trump and really good for our country.”