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Trump’s Blonde Aide, 35, Revealed to Be Behind 2020 Election Memo

The president’s ever-present aide helped him draft a furious letter to lawmakers years ago.

Donald Trump enlisted the help of his adoring aide to write an angry memo crying fraud in the 2020 election, a new analysis found.

Natalie Harp, the president’s 35-year-old “human printer,” has been identified as the document author of a 14-page memo that Trump sent to the Jan. 6, 2021, congressional committee after it voted to subpoena him in October 2022.

The metadata of the document indicates that it was created on the morning of Oct. 14, 2022, by Harp. The data was first reported by independent journalist Marcy Wheeler and independently verified by the Daily Beast.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.

Harp began working for Trump in 2022 after leaving her role as anchor and host at the right-wing news network One America News. She earned the moniker “human printer” by following Trump around, fulfilling his every request, including fetching merchandise, performing Google searches, printing stories from right-wing websites, and suggesting possible Truth Social posts. She earns a taxpayer-funded salary of $150,000 a year.

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The metadata sheds light on how closely Harp has worked with Trump over the years. In 2024, Sen. John Barrasso told Fox News that Harp functioned as “an extra set of eyes and ears for President Trump.”

“Every time I have been with him, she has been close at hand,” he said at the time. The late Senator Lindsey Graham similarly said, if “you want to get something to President Trump, she’s the person to talk to.”

Harp herself told Fox News that she provides Trump with a variety of information.

“During the various witch hunts, I researched what legal experts and scholars were writing about the cases,” she said. “When we were out campaigning, I monitored reviews to see what parts of the president’s messaging were resonating best. I have a big database of websites that I source from. Sometimes I go through back-to-back, checking top headlines and, if I see one on an issue the president has been talking about or that he’s interested in, I grab it.”

The rambling October 2022 memo was created a day after the Jan. 6 committee voted 9-0 to subpoena Trump as part of its investigation into the deadly Capitol riot. The letter was addressed to committee chairman Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson.

“THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!” the memo began, rehashing false or unverifiable claims about the election Trump lost to Joe Biden.

“This memo is being written to express our anger, disappointment, and complaint that with all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a Charade and Witch Hunt, and despite strong and powerful requests, you have not spent even a short moment on examining the massive Election Fraud that took place during the 2020 Presidential Election, and have targeted only those who were, as concerned American Citizens, protesting the Fraud itself,” read the letter, which was signed by Trump.

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Trump also blasted members of the Jan. 6 committee as “highly partisan political Hacks and Thugs whose sole function is to destroy the lives of many hard-working American Patriots.”

“Despite very poor television ratings, the Unselect Committee has perpetuated a Show Trial the likes of which this Country has never seen before,” he wrote. “You have not gone after the people that created the Fraud, but rather great American Patriots who questioned it, as is their Constitutional right. These people have had their lives ruined as your Committee sits back and basks in the glow.”

Harp’s apparent role in drafting the letter has come to light amid mounting questions about her influence on the 80-year-old president. Even some White House officials have reportedly expressed concerns about the information and social media content Harp has steadily been feeding Trump outside the usual chain of command. The Wall Street Journal, citing current and former administration officials, reported that some of the information has been “false or misleading.”

The Daily Beast has also released two unusually intimate letters Harp wrote to Trump, in which she showered him with praise and expressed her undying devotion.

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