With scandal-ridden ex-President Donald Trump’s infamous and long-awaited Manhattan Hush Money trial officially underway, the New York Times has been keeping a running tab full of updates on the goings-on inside Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom as jurors were selected, Trump Team motions were slapped down, and the big guy got a few good naps in.
While the updates have been juicy and plentiful over the last week, there was one particular piece of information reported on by New York Times correspondent and so-called “Trump Whisperer” Maggie Haberman that specifically caught our eye this morning.
Haberman’s tidbit of reporting almost sounded like a bad joke, as she made note of the presence of Trump aide in the courtroom whose job it was to carry around a “wireless printer” to provide the former president with an “ongoing stream of good news from the internet.”
Maggie’s NYT update reads:
Among the Trump aides in the courtroom is Natalie Harp, his ever-present favorite who uses a wireless printer to provide him with an ongoing stream of good news from the internet. She was initially sitting two rows behind the defense table, as she usually does. A security official in court just made her head to the back to sit in the same row as Trump’s other aides.”
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However, as ridiculous, silly, and downright absurd as it sounds, Maggie Haberman wasn’t cracking a joke here.
The Trump aide in question is Natalie Harp — a young, blonde, attractive former One America News anchor who’s been a member of the Trump Communications Team since March 2022.
The addition of Harp to the Trump Team and her unique job responsibilities were first reported on back in 2022 by the Washington Post, which confirmed at the time that Harp’s primary job was to follow the former president around, sometimes even in a golf cart during his golf trips, “equipped with a laptop and sometimes a printer to show him uplifting news articles, online posts, or other materials.”
WaPo’s report went on to confirm that other Trump aides were tasked with equally bizarre jobs, such as asking Trump’s allies to call him and “boost his spirits with positive affirmations.”
Harp herself boasts a rather unique relationship with the former president, crediting Trump for “saving her life” by approving an immunotherapy drug that she claims largely contributed to her survival when battling a rare form of cancer.
However, experts continue to maintain that Donald Trump’s “Right-to-Try” law — legislation that gave the green light for a number of experimental drug treatments and the American people’s “right to try” them — isn’t actually worth much more than the paper it’s written on, consider “The FDA already had a process that approved more than 90 percent of people who wanted access to these drugs and treatments,” according to former top FDA official Peter Lurie.
Frankly, it seems Harp is just flouncing around making Donnie feel good about himself for basically no good reason.
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