President Donald Trump's 35-year-old assistant, Natalie Harp, has drawn consternation over her reportedly obsessive behavior toward the 80-year-old Republican leader. Concern about Harp's fixation on the president stretched from his inner staff circle to First Lady Melania Trump and the Secret Service, and there were ample signs that people in the know viewed her attachment as at best worrisome and at worst unhealthy.

Harp's path to the White House ran through conservative media: a former One America News Network host, she became a fixture of Trump's political operation before joining his staff, and was frequently photographed carrying a portable printer to print out news stories for the president — the duty her own aside in the letters about no longer having to be "Human Printer" speaks to.

Journalist Michael Wolff, a longtime chronicler of the Trumps whose books include the 2018 bestseller "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," has now published two letters on his Substack that Harp reportedly wrote to Trump and left in private places in his most personal quarters for him alone to find and read. The letters have not been independently verified, and their references to Scotland, Ireland and "this Trip" correspond to Trump's early-September 2025 visit to his golf resorts at Turnberry and Doonbeg.

In the first, she apologized for an incident in which she "panicked" and contacted him over a transportation snafu.

"I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland," Harp wrote. "The first day I was told there were no carts, and people walked, which is why I walked. The second day, I was specifically asked by, I forget who his name was, but one of the main people who worked there, if I could continue walking, and tell any other girls who would head out there to do the same to spare the Course any more Carts. If there is anything else I have done to cause you trouble, please forgive me. I know that some people have said I haven't been texting them back, and there have been some International cell issues (John was having technical issues on the Plane too, so asked me to help him out)."

She added: "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). I haven't been myself, dwelling on the Past, and the pain of losing my Dad, and 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. 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. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life." She closed that letter by saying she used a card to buy things for him and signed off "with all my heart."

In the second letter, Harp wrote: "now this is the Note I wanted to write (But the apology needed to come first.) I have learned so much about myself on this Trip—I always knew coming home to my roots would be enlightening, but I had no idea how much. For the first time, in I don't know how long, you forced me to 'unplug.' 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.' I could take time to enjoy good conversation, and still get all my work done at the end of the day. In fact, I even had time to take long morning and evening walks to enjoy each Sunrise and Sunset (though I did forget to eat and sleep!)."

She added: "With so much thinking time, I confess it did have a slightly negative effect at times, that I know you picked up on, but the end result, I believe, will be worth it. 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!! So many times, I'm just trying to stay afloat with all that's coming in for you, I look like a hunchback who didn't have time to freshen up (at least you know what I should look like)! Plus, I miss the days when you used to call, during my Talkshow days, and we'd talk about everything and nothing. I want to get back to that synergy. We shouldn't have to talk about work all the time!! I've always felt like an in-betweener, somewhere between Staff and those you enjoy talking to on the Plane or at Dinner, because that's who I used to be to you when I was a 'Talkshow Host' (as much as I hated that actual job!)."

Ultimately, she concluded: "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. Thank you for always being there for me—I'll never forget when you made that promise to me after losing my Dad, and I know how happy he is right now that I did get to go to Scotland and Ireland, as he always wanted for me. To modify a classic, 'I could not have parted with you, to anyone less worthy'—And, I will add, it is I who is unworthy."

Harp's closing reference echoes her own public account: a bone cancer survivor, she has said an experimental treatment she pursued under the Right to Try law — signed by Trump in 2018 — helped save her life, a story she recounted at the 2020 Republican National Convention before joining his orbit.

She closed the second letter by claiming that she was still on the road to recovery from the life-saving medical procedures she said she had been able to access because of Trump's policies.

Source: Alternet