Meet Natalie Harp, a ‘valuable resource’ to Trump who lawmakers say is ‘critical’ to his operations

Exclusive: Natalie Harp, aide to President-elect Trump, says “confidentiality, speed, accuracy and adaptability” are key to serving the president as lawmakers who communicate with her regularly tell Fox News Digital she is ensuring Congress It is the “real Congress” that plays a “key role”.

Harp has worked with the president-elect throughout his campaign and transition since 2022. , she will have an “important role to play in the White House.”

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

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

“She was definitely a big reason why his surgery was so successful,” Zhang told Fox News Digital. “Her work ethic and dedication to helping President Trump achieve his historic victory is second to none.”

“I believe she is President Trump’s extra eyes and ears,” Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso told Fox News Digital. “Every time I was with him, she was there for me.”

Barrasso explained that Harp communicates regularly with him and other senators and congressmen via text messages.

“If I need to contact the president, I text her,” Barrasso explained. “If he didn’t answer the phone, I knew to go find Natalie and he would get the message.”

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham also said he went to Harp to handle matters ranging from “golf to the most sensitive foreign policy matters.”

“You want to get some message across to President Trump, she’s the person you can talk to,” Graham told Fox News Digital. “I trust Natalie to keep any information I communicate with President Trump confidential. She’s very Loyal to the president – she’s very loyal, always professional, and always polite.”

Graham added: “She responds quickly to requests from senators — and I’ve heard that from others — and I feel like when I communicate with Natalie, I do so with a sense of trust. ”

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Harp praised the president for “really investing his time in building an unparalleled network of allies in Congress, the media and the business community.” She said the relationships have “deep roots” and attributed it to accessibility.

President Trump gave orders to his aide Natalie Harp while she typed. (Trump campaign)

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

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster told Fox News Digital that he has worked directly with Harp “many times.”

“She is the ultimate professional – highly motivated, disciplined and committed,” McMaster said. “She has served and will continue to serve President Trump and our country well.”

Harp, who created a “mobile office” for the president during the campaign, told Fox News Digital that she did so because the president wanted to remain “accessible.”

“Breaking news doesn’t take into account where you are. That’s how our operations office started,” Harp said. “A lot of times, the president wants to put his thoughts on paper, so I’ll take dictation, print it out, and then he continues working on it until he finds the right words for a viral piece of truth.”

Happ said her idea was to purchase a mobile printer to “speed up the process,” noting that printers “are not always available” on the golf course or on the road.

Harp said this setup is their way of “getting significant information in real time that we can act on, and vice versa.”

Harp told Fox News Digital that she regularly communicates with the network of allies, sending news clippings and even polling members of Congress on timely issues and legislation.

“He can pretty much get out the vote in a matter of minutes,” Harp said.

Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital that Harp gives us a sense of what’s going on on Capitol Hill.

“If you want Congress to represent a true partner to the incoming president, sharing information is important,” Jackson told Fox News Digital. “Natalie is critical to making sure members of Congress feel like they are part of the president’s team. important.”

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

Natalie Harp has served as an assistant to President Trump since 2022. (Trump campaign)

“The president deserves it,” Harp told Fox News Digital. “Yes, he’s working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but it never felt like he was pushing or pushing us to work harder. On the contrary, He inspires us to do more and be more because he himself sets the example.

Asked what type of information Harp would bring to the president or share with his allies, she said: “It depends.”

“During the various witch hunts, I studied what legal experts and academics were writing about the cases. When we were out campaigning, I monitored comments to see which parts of the president’s message resonated the most,” she explained . “I have a huge database of websites that I pull information from. Sometimes I’ll scroll through the headlines and if I see something about an issue that the president has been talking about or an issue that interests him, I’ll grab it. “.

Happ traveled with the president throughout the campaign and spent days in court as he fought the now-dismissed case against him, even in Butler, Pa., in July and Palm Beach in September. He was with him during both assassination attempts at the Trump International Golf Links.

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“We all have a deep faith in God, but now, ‘miracles’ are not just things we read about, but things we experience firsthand, not once, but twice,” Harp said. “Some people say, After two assassination attempts, they saw a “changed” Donald Trump. I disagree. These traumatic experiences did not make him a different person, they only revealed to the world who he had always been. look.

Natalie Happ will join President Trump in the White House. (Trump campaign)

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

“That’s not the case. He was the first one to say that – he never went anywhere. It was other people who left, only to come back, or never gave him a chance, who finally came around,” Happ said. “That’s not to say the president hasn’t changed at all over the years, but his essence has only become more apparent.”

Harp recalled being in court with the president when he would “occasionally close his eyes and listen.”

Harp said of the president: “He is on a completely different level, at peace with God and unwaveringly focused. Nothing can faze him because he puts comfort second and purpose first. bit.” “If people could cut through the noise and prejudices that intentionally or unintentionally misunderstand him, you would see the heart of a man who had it all but still risked it all for love, for country, for everything. american people.”

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Harp studied business finance at Point Loma University and earned an MBA from Liberty University.

Harp, who battled and survived stage 2 bone cancer, credits Trump’s 2018 “right to try” law with saving her life. The measure allows terminally ill patients to obtain drug treatments that have not yet been fully approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Harp wrote an op-ed in 2019 about her experience with “right to try,” which went viral. In June 2019, she appeared on “Fox & Friends” to share her story. And invited her to his next event at the Faith and Freedom Alliance’s Path to Majority conference in Washington, D.C., where she called him a “Good Samaritan.”

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

President Trump and his aide Natalie Happ. (Trump campaign)

Dr. Barrasso echoed Harp’s sentiments on the right to try, calling her legislation “a huge success.”

“There’s a chance she won’t survive,” Barrasso said. “The fact that she’s still with us is a miracle in itself, and she wants to thank God every day for everything that she has, that she’s with and for President Trump.” President Trump has done many, many things.”

Happ later joined Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign advisory committee and spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention.

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“She keeps everyone in a very good mood, and most importantly, she keeps the president in a very good mood, and I think she’s been key to his success throughout the campaign,” Rep. Ronny Jackson told Fox News Digital. “As a doctor, from a psychological point of view, you also feel better when people around you are in a good mood, laughing, smiling – that’s human nature – and I think it’s important that people like Natalie A person who will never be depressed by anything.

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