A resurfaced video shows White House aide Natalie Harp expressing an intense, almost mystical devotion to President Trump years before she entered his orbit, adding to questions about one of Washington’s most unusual relationships.

The unearthed video of Harp, whose close ties to Trump have drawn increasing scrutiny and earned her the nickname “the human printer” for repeatedly handing him favorable news clippings, was highlighted in reporting by Jonathan Last in The Bulwark on Wednesday.

The 96-second clip, filmed selfie-style beside a lake and believed to have been recorded around 2017, when Harp was in her mid-20s, was posted to Twitter in June 2018 by MAGA activist Kareem Lanier, who ran a Trump surrogate organization tied to former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. In the video, Harp says she was the victim of a 2015 medical error, claiming she was accidentally infused with sterile water and went into hemorrhagic shock. She said she lost what she described as nearly all of her blood platelets because of a rare condition and was left with cancer, chronic pain, and mounting medical bills.

Harp ends the video by crediting Trump’s political rise, without explaining how, for changing her fate.

“The elites thought they held the Trump card,” Harp said.

Medical experts say her account does not withstand scrutiny. Sterile-water infusion errors are extremely rare, and documented cases show other patients have survived them, contradicting both Harp’s description and Lanier’s caption calling her the “only survivor” of an error he claimed killed more than 4,000 people. Harp later expanded on the story in a 2019 LinkedIn essay that went viral, leading to a Fox & Friends interview that reportedly caught Trump’s attention, where she credited a Trump-backed law with saving her life.

The episode helps explain why Harp’s story has drawn so much attention inside Trump world: her personal narrative became part of her public identity before her White House role, and it intersected with the broader political fight over medical choice and access that Trump allies frequently promoted. This is not the first time her medical account has faced questions. At the 2020 Republican National Convention, Harp said Trump’s “right to try” legislation saved her from cancer, but analysts noted at the time that her experimental treatment was legal before that law took effect.

The video’s resurfacing comes only days after The Daily Beast published private letters in which Harp called Trump her “guardian and protector.” The revelations have renewed scrutiny — including from Harp’s own brother, who has publicly described the relationship as “very unhealthy” — over how far back her fixation with the president may extend.