A newly unearthed video of Natalie Harp, a senior aide to President Donald Trump, has raised new questions about her mental state and her relationship with her octogenarian boss, the Daily Beast reports, describing the recording as "extraordinary" and "unhinged."

"The social media clip, recorded nine years ago, shows Harp, who was in her mid-20s at the time, claiming that she was the sole survivor of serious medical malpractice thanks to Trump," the Daily Beast reports. Harp later repeated the claim in a viral online essay in 2019, but "many of the eyebrow-raising details listed in this first video were not repeated."

The 96-second clip was filmed selfie-style beside a lake and intercut with footage from Trump's speeches. It was posted on Twitter in June 2018 by MAGA activist Kareem Lanier, though it appears to have been filmed the year before.

As the Daily Beast explains, "The resurfaced clip, which is thought to have been recorded in 2017, shows that the letters that alarmed the Secret Service were certainly not the only clues that Harp had an unusually strong devotion to Trump." The publication on Thursday of a new set of love letters from Harp to Trump revealed the degree of her fixation on the president, prompting many to raise "serious national security questions about their relationship." "The latest video deepens those concerns," the outlet writes.

In the recording, Harp tells the camera: "Two years ago, I was the victim of a medical error. Accidentally infused with sterile water, I went into hemorrhagic shock, losing 100 percent of the average person's blood platelets, but only 30 percent of my own. Thanks to a rare blood condition, I became the only survivor of sterile water infusion."

She went on to say that she paid her own medical bills and was denied appointments — details the Daily Beast reports she "left out of an essay she later wrote on LinkedIn, which caught the attention of Fox News and then the president, after she appeared on the network to share her tale."

That Fox News appearance proved to be a career turning point. Harp went on to join Trump's White House staff, working in Oval Office operations, where she became known for trailing the president with a portable printer to show him favorable coverage. She recounted her survival story at the 2020 Republican National Convention, crediting Trump with saving her life, and later worked on his 2024 campaign before rejoining him as a senior aide.

The video then plays a clip in which Trump rails against politicians failing their suffering citizens. Notably, the Trump snippet does not address medical policy at all. Harp concludes the video by suggesting that Trump's political interventions saved her life, without specifying how he was involved. "The elites thought they held the Trump card," she says into the lens, wearing a pink MAGA hat. "But they didn't count on Donald Trump — like I did."

According to the Daily Beast, "Medical studies have described accidental infusions of sterile water as extremely rare, and there are documented cases of other patients surviving it, which doesn't match Harp's statements in the clip or the caption from Lanier describing her as the 'only survivor of a Medical error that's taken 4,000+ lives.'"

In 2019, Harp claimed she had been saved by Trump's support for a law known as Right to Try, which allows terminally ill patients who have exhausted approved treatments to request experimental drugs. Trump signed the measure in May 2018 — after Harp shot the video thanking Trump for his intervention — leaving it unclear how the law would have affected her treatment.