АНУ-ын ерөнхийлөгч Дональд Трампын туслах Натали Харп суудлын хүрэлцээгүй байдлаас шалтгаалан автомашины тээшинд сууж явсан нь олон нийтийн анхааралд өртлөө.
2023 оны аравдугаар сард Нью-Йорк хотод болсон шүүх хуралд явах үеэр Дональд Трампын цувааны автомашинд Натали Харпд суух зай олдоогүй байна. Тухайн үед болсон маргааны дараа тэрээр уг автомашины тээшинд суухаар шийдсэн гэж эх сурвалжууд мэдээлжээ. Тэрээр 2022 оноос хойш Трампын багт ажиллаж байгаа бөгөөд ерөнхийлөгчийн олон нийтийн сүлжээний мэдээлэл болон хэвлэлийн материалыг цаасан хэлбэрээр бэлтгэн хүргэдэг тул “хүн-принтер” гэх хоч авсан байна.
Саяхан Ираны зүгээс заналхийлэл учруулсан гэх сэжиг бүхий нөхцөл байдлын улмаас Натали Харп болон бусад туслахуудыг Турк улсад цэргийн онгоц руу шилжүүлэн аюулгүй байдлыг нь хангасан үйл явдал болсон юм. Түүнийг ерөнхийлөгчийн хамгийн үнэнч, тууштай туслахуудын нэг хэмээн Цагаан ордны зүгээс онцолж, түүний үйл ажиллагааг өмгөөлөн хамгаалж байна.
Гэвч түүний ах Престон Харп дүүгийнхээ энэхүү үйлдлийг эрүүл бус хэт туйлшрал гэж шүүмжилсэн байна. Ардчилсан намын сенатор Жон Оссофф ерөнхийлөгчийг албан үүргээ гүйцэтгэхийн оронд туслахтайгаа хамт агаарын хөлгөөр зорчихыг илүүд үзэж байна хэмээн шүүмжилсний дараа Цагаан ордон болон улс төрийн хүрээнийхний хооронд маргаан өрнөв.
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President Trump’s aide Natalie Harp has come under the spotlight this week, with multiple reports detailing how she became one of his most trusted supporters.
The executive assistant is often seen by the president’s side, having cultivated a close working relationship since she first came to Trump’s attention in 2019.
Now CNN has unearthed another incident that sheds new light on just how dedicated Harp appears to be.
In October 2023, a year before Trump was re-elected to the White House, Harp reportedly rode in the trunk of an SUV when she could not get a seat in his motorcade.
The billionaire was set to leave Trump Tower for a court hearing in New York City but, according to CNN sources, there was no space for Harp.
As the network tells it, a “screaming match” followed in the lobby as Harp insisted she had been asked by Trump to attend. But with no seat available, she climbed into the trunk, according to the sources and a photograph seen by CNN.
Harp joined Trump’s staff in 2022, having claimed he “saved her life” after she was diagnosed with stage II bone cancer. She hit the headlines earlier this month when it emerged she was one of a small number of aides who were transferred to a military plane in Turkey to avoid a suspected assassination threat by Iran.
One unnamed White House advisor told CNN that Trump “likes the attention and the fact that she is 100 percent committed and loyal.”
“She doesn’t second-guess, doesn’t question,” the advisor said of Harp, who has also reportedly earned the nickname of “human printer” for handing the president hard copies of social media posts and newspaper articles.
But Harp’s brother, a Trump critic, has questioned the dedication she shows the commander-in-chief.
When asked about the trunk report, Preston Harp told CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront: “That’s really funny, I didn’t know about that.
“No, it’ not, I’m sorry, it’s actually sad,” he added. “That’s obsession. That’s like an unhealthy obsession with someone if you’re going to jump into the trunk of their car.”
Harp’s estranged sibling also detailed more about his upbringing with his sister, claiming that his mom believed in American exceptionalism.
“Trump is like everything that my mom taught us to respect,” he said. “I think that’s where her infatuation with Trump comes from, honestly.”
Democratic senator Jon Ossoff drew further attention to Harp this week after suggesting at a rally Trump would rather fly with “Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace” than do his job.
The Trump administration has vociferously defended Harp, with the official Rapid Response 47 account on X tearing into a CNN correspondent who asked the president about the aide.
Harp was described as “one of the most loyal and hardest working aides on President Trump’s team” in a statement by White House spokesman Davis Ingle this week.
And Ossoff, meanwhile, was branded a “radical, extremist Dumocrat” by White House communications director Steven Cheung in a social media response to his speech.
