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Published 10:04 16 Aug 2026 GMT
The brother of one of Donald Trump's closest aides has spoken publicly about her relationship with the President for the first time, calling it 'unhealthy' and suggesting she is looking for a replacement father figure.
Natalie Harp, 35, is the executive assistant to the President of the United States.
Staff call her 'The Printer'.
She follows Trump around with a portable printing device and a battery pack so he never has to look at a screen. She clips his printouts together with gold paper clips.
She once ran behind his golf cart in Scotland to hand him positive news stories.
She also, according to a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, left private notes for the President in his personal spaces containing messages that made the Secret Service nervous.
One of them was seven words long: "You are all that matters to me."
The book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, claims Harp wrote a series of adoring letters to the President in 2023, leaving them where he would find them in his private quarters.
Other messages included "I don't ever want to let you down" and "I want to bring you joy".
Author Michael Wolff, who has written multiple books about Trump, went further on the Daily Beast's Inside Trump's Head podcast.
He described the notes as 'love letters' and 'mash notes'.
"In my book, I produce a set of notes that she had written to the president," Wolff said.
"Love letters in which everybody was in a major kerfuffle over this, including the Secret Service."
He said the Secret Service warned aides that they considered Harp 'a potential danger to herself as well as to the president'. Whether that warning was ever passed directly to Trump is unclear.
When asked whether the notes suggested Harp was 'in love' with the President, Wolff said: "I mean, these are love notes, mash notes."
Trump's response, according to the Haberman and Swan book, was to tell others that unlike his other staffers, Harp "will never leave me".
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly caught off guard by the letters. Her alleged reaction: "Where am I?"
Preston Harp spoke to the Daily Beast about his sister's relationship with the President.
He did not describe it as romantic. He described it as something else.
"While much of the media has focused on questioning whether her relationship is something scandalous, that is not where my mind goes personally," he said.
"Maybe it is because I just can't imagine something like that, but to me this is 100 percent an infatuation based on an unfortunate shared ideology of U.S. exceptionalism."
He suggested the dynamic is tied to their upbringing.
Their father, an estate agent who founded a consultancy for travel companies, appears to have been emotionally distant. Preston believes his sister is seeking in Trump something she did not get at home.
He called the relationship 'unhealthy'.
She was born in 1990 or 1991 into a devoutly Christian family.
She graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2012 and from Liberty University with an MBA in 2015. She worked as an anchor at One America News Network, the far-right television channel, before leaving in 2022.
She first came onto Trump's radar in 2019 after telling her story of surviving a rare bone cancer.
She credits Trump's Right to Try law, which allows patients to access experimental treatments, with saving her life. He invited her to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
She joined his staff in 2022. She sat behind him in court every day of his criminal trial.
When a gag order prevented Trump from attacking witnesses publicly, she allegedly offered to post the attacks under her own name and go to prison for him instead.
"I'll go to prison," she reportedly announced to the legal team.
A bewildered group of lawyers stared at her, according to Wolff, 'as though she had three eyes in her forehead.'
She now has access to Trump's Truth Social account and is believed to be responsible for many of the posts that go out late at night and in the early hours of the morning, the ones that have prompted speculation about Trump's mental state.
Media critic Joanna Dougherty described the dynamic bluntly: "She is fuelling his delusions. She is providing him with endless praise that she prints out off random social media, and then it's all being put out in public, and she is with him round the clock."
She has been accused online of 'cosplaying' as Trump's daughter.
Her official title is Executive Assistant to the President. Her unofficial title is The Printer. And the seven-word note she left in his personal quarters is now in a bestselling book.
