“You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if need be, when I deserve it, because no one knows or cares about me more,” Harp reportedly wrote
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NEED TO KNOW
- Two newly revealed letters purportedly written by White House aide Natalie Harp to President Donald Trump have been published in full by The Daily Beast and author Michael Wolff
- The White House has not commented on the veracity of the letters, excerpts of which were previously reported by The New York Times as far back as 2024
- Both letters contain extensive apologies from Harp for behavior she described as embarrassing and shameful, including apparently running behind Trump’s caravan of golf carts in Scotland
Two newly revealed letters purportedly written by White House aide Natalie Harp to President Donald Trump have been published by The Daily Beast and author Michael Wolff.
The White House has not commented on the veracity of the letters, excerpts of which were previously reported by The New York Times as far back as 2024, including the line “you are all that matters to me” and describing Trump as her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”
The documents, published in full on Thursday, Aug. 20, offer new insight into Harp and Trump’s dynamic, which has become the center of much public scrutiny and discussion, including reporting she once rode in the trunk of an SUV to join Trump at court and has been known to text with world leaders trying to reach the U.S. president.
“I miss when you used to call during my Talkshow days, and we’d talk about everything and nothing,” the former One America News Network host reportedly wrote in one of the letters. “I need to reunite my past self with my current into a better version who will make you proud. And please, when I fail, will you tell me?”
“You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if need be, when I deserve it, because no one knows or cares about me more,” she reportedly continued in part. “It is I who is unworthy.”
PEOPLE has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the letters.
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The White House has strongly defended the 35-year-old executive assistant amid a flurry of new reporting, but repeatedly ignored requests for comment on the specifics of the president’s dynamic with Harp and other reported incidents. The administration did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s inquiry on Friday, Aug. 21.
“Natalie Harp is one of the most loyal and hardest-working aides on President Trump’s team,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement to The Daily Beast on Thursday. “The media should get back to reporting real news and stop regurgitating Trump-Deranged liberal talking points.”
The letters were written in 2023, “either during or after” Harp joined the then-former president on a trip to Scotland and Ireland, The Daily Beast reported.
That trip, to open a new Scotland golf course alongside his son Eric, came roughly a year after Harp joined Trump’s political operation as he prepared to mount his 2024 campaign.
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Both letters shared by The Daily Beast contain extensive apologies from Harp for her behavior, which she described as embarrassing and shameful, including apparently running behind Trump’s caravan of golf carts in Scotland.
Harp was seen running after the golf cart motorcade in photos published by Mirror on Friday, Aug. 21.
The first letter explained why Harp ended up walking instead of riding in a cart — a lack of room and a possible miscommunication about spots left in the caravan — and implored Trump, 80, to forgive her “if I was an embarrassment.”
“If there is anything else I have done to cause you trouble, please forgive me,” Harp allegedly wrote in one of the letters, both of which are typed and signed with only her first name. “I want things to always be right between us. I also know I’ve been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep and only catching a couple hours at a time).”
The Daily Beast published letters that Trump’s 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp allegedly wrote to him
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The letter continued with the aide reportedly noting she hadn’t been herself because she had been “dwelling on the Past, and the pain of losing my Dad,” who died by suicide in 2020, according to her estranged brother.
“I started letting the remarks of people who haven’t bothered me before, get to me — not because I care what others think, but because I see myself being lowered in your eyes and good opinion,” Harp wrote, according to the published letters. “That is the fear you see, because I never want to bring you anything but joy. I’m sorry I lost my focus.”
“You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down,” the letter read.
She signed off that letter by thanking Trump for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”
“I will return a better person,” she wrote. “With all my heart, Natalie.”
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In the second letter, Harp apologized again and thanked the president for forcing “me to ‘unplug’” from her phone and the portable printer she reportedly brought with her when Trump golfs to provide him with articles, correspondence and social media posts on physical paper.
Harp even referred to herself by her long-reported nickname: the Human Printer.
“We could be out on the Course, with no machines, and even forget what time it was! I didn’t have to be ‘Human Printer,’” Harp wrote, per reports. “I had no idea how rapidly I was approaching burnout, and starting to envy those whose only ‘job’ seems to be to talk with you, and look pretty. I want that job!!”
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