Posts echo Trump’s false 2020 election claims

White House aide Natalie Harp flooded a now-deactivated social media account with pro-Trump messages on January 6, 2021 — years before she joined the West Wing and developed a close working relationship with the 80-year-old president — CNN reported Saturday.

The account, which Harp opened in 2016 and which now appears suspended, contained more than 150 posts on the day of the Capitol attack alone, CNN reported. Among them was a message that repeated “FIGHT FOR TRUMP!” twelve times. Others declared “Today, DC is TRUMP COUNTRY!” and “today we STOP THE STEAL!”. As Trump delivered a speech that day, Harp wrote: “We will never give up. We will never concede!”

The posts echoed Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden at the end of his first presidency, had been stolen through fraud. Harp’s embrace of those claims predated the attack. In the weeks before, she told followers: “We will never give up – for TRUTH is on our side. January 6th is coming!!” Days after the election results were called, she wrote “WE LOVE YOU! WE LOVE YOU! WE LOVE YOU!”. On December 14, 2020, as she denounced Biden’s victory, Harp posted: “THIS IS A COUP.”

A 2019 message on the same account, unearthed earlier by the Daily Beast, opened: “We all know the story of the Good Samaritan,” as Harp compared Trump to the biblical figure and recounted her claim that he had saved her life during a bout with cancer.

The X account that CNN reported on now appears suspended. It remains unclear when it was taken down or whether Harp or the platform was responsible for removing the posts.

Harp’s official titles are special assistant to the president and executive assistant to the president — positions that carry an annual salary of $150,000. Inside Trump’s orbit she has also earned the unofficial title of “human printer” — a reference to her role supplying the president with printed information.

The resurfaced posts are not the only written materials now fueling scrutiny of Harp’s devotion to Trump. The Daily Beast published two letters Harp wrote to the president in 2023. In one she called him her “Guardian and Protector in this Life” and wrote: “You are all that matters to me.” She also wrote: “I want to bring you joy, to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk ‘work.’”

Claims from Harp’s estranged brother that her relationship with Trump is “unhealthy” have also surfaced, according to the Guardian, as has a recent speech from Sen. Jon Ossoff, the Georgia Democrat, who contended that one of the few things Trump wants to do is “travel with Natalie.”

The resurfaced posts extend a week of mounting scrutiny of Harp’s role in the West Wing that began when Ossoff’s remarks thrust the aide into the spotlight and the White House rapid-response account attacked the CNN reporter who pressed Trump on the comments.