Natalie Harp, Trump's far-right information gatekeeper

Natalie Harp, a former anchor at the far-right One America News Network (OAN), will take on an important, though unspecified, communications role for the Trump White House. She is already believed to be a key information watchdog for President-elect Trump and may have played a role in some of the campaign’s most controversial decisions and statements over the past year.

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Harp, 33, comes from a conservative Christian family in California. Her father, Robert Harp, was a professor at Biola University’s Cromwell School of Business, a Christian institution, and deceased in 2020. Natalie Harp graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2012 before earning an MBA from conservative Liberty University in 2015. A bone cancer survivor, Harp first landed on the public radar in 2019 when President Trump received a letter she had written paying tribute to him.”Right to try“Law that gives terminally ill patients access to experimental drugs and saves their lives.

Experts have expressed doubts about the veracity of Harp’s claim. The timeline shows that “two months before Trump even signed the law, Harp had already spoken online about her new treatment,” William Wan said at the Washington Post. The “off-label” use of certain drugs, as Harp’s doctors apparently did with an immunotherapy drug, is “common in cancer treatment and long predates legislation,” Wan said.

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Harp “first caught national attention and the president’s attention” when she told her story on Fox & Friends in June 2019said Lillian Abbatacola at Liberty University. Two weeks later, the president invited her to the stage at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual conference. She worked on Trump’s re-election campaign in 2020, and her speech at the Republican National Convention that year landed her a job as an anchor for the far-right OAN in 2021, where she remained until joining Trump’s campaign. At OAN, Harp brokered many of these the same untruths about the 2020 election, the Fox News in legal jeopardy.

Harp joined Trump’s campaign in 2023 and is known as “the human printer.” said several news reports. Harp “travels with a portable printer (plus paper and rechargeable batteries in a large bag) whose job is to provide Trump with a steady stream of information on 8.5-by-11-inch sheets,” said Marc A. Caputo in the bulwark. Because of Trump’s known penchant for reading printed material, “her role has become enormously important,” said Sarah Ewall-Wice at The Daily Mail. “What Trump has, functionally speaking, is an Algirl ritual that sifts through the algorithms that make up our everyday lives,” said Luther Ray Abel at The National Review.

Harp also reportedly manages Trump’s Truth Social account, which has been the subject of numerous controversies fueled by Trump Consumption of right-wing extremist media during the 2024 presidential campaign. Trump’s account activity on Truth Social is “part of a flood of conspiracy theories, often emanating from right-wing online agitators and extremists,” he said a New York Times report from October 2024. According to Caputo, Harp was responsible for the reposting a video on May 20, 2024, which envisioned a Trump victory that would usher in a “United Empire.” The video was deleted from his account and the campaign blamed a “low-ranking staffer.”

Your exact role in the transition or what she will do in the Trump White House is unclear. It will be the “conduit for a largely unsupervised flow of information to and from the president,” said Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan at the New York Times. Haberman and Swan’s reporting provides “new insight into the evolution of the president-elect’s crazy social media activities,” said Danielle Cohen at The Cut. Sources said Haberman and Swan noted that Harp wrote Trump a series of sycophantic letters in 2023, including one that said, “You are all that matters to me.”

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Natalie Harp, Trump’s far-right information gatekeeper

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