You’ve no doubt heard of the “human printer” Natalie Harp, who accompanies Donald Trump everywhere from the putting green to the criminal courthouse, armed with a portable printer, paper and batteries. Harp’s six-figure job is to provide Trump with the missives that he quotes from every day after court. No sooner does Jonathan Turley or Mark Levin post a pro-Trump piece than Harp finds it, prints it, and puts it in Trump’s tiny hand, so he can read outside the courthouse what the Four Horsemen Of The Legal Apocalypse, as Ron Filipkowski has dubbed them, have to say in his favor that day.
Harp is a personal favorite of Trump. 32-years-old and blonde, Trump has referred to her as “that beautiful young woman.” But Goldilocks messed up bigly the other day. The Bulwark reports that she is the “junior staffer” that reposted that horrific Unified Reich pro-fascism video on Truth Social.
Harp appears to have entered Trump’s orbit in 2019. The year before, Trump signed into law the Right to Try Act, which makes it easier for terminally ill patients to access experimental therapies; Harp said it helped her beat Stage 2 cancer, saving her life. Trump first gushed about her in a birthday Fox & Friends interview on June 14, 2019, when he called attention to the story of “that young, beautiful woman.” (Harp’s looks are a recurring theme in coverage of her.)
Twelve days after the Fox interview, Trump called Harp onstage at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, where gave her the highest praise: “She lit up the television screen like very few people I’ve ever seen do it.”
Because there is a first time for everything, Harp then likened Trump to the Good Samaritan.
Harp eventually came to work for Trump’s 2020 campaign and delivered another speech at the Republican National Committee. (This time she compared him to Jimmy Stewart’s character in It’s a Wonderful Life.)
The Good Samaritan and George Bailey. OMFG.
Trump has told others that he appreciates Harp’s dedication and she aligns ideologically with him. She tends to flag items about voter fraud and internal Republican enemies, topics for which Trump has a limitless appetite.
Harp also helps manage Trump’s Truth Social media account and has taken over some of the duties from Trump’s former caddy-turned-senior-adviser Dan Scavino.
This can be a taxing job. On Monday, while he was on trial in New York, Trump’s Truth Social media account reposted a video, published first on X by a supporter using the handle @ramble_rants, called “What happens after Trump wins?” The video featured mock old-fashioned newspaper headlines. One of the sepia-toned faux-newspaper stock images included the phrase “Unified Reich.” Maybe not the best look for a candidate who has dined with actual neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes and “joked” that he would like to be a dictator for a day.
Than as you know, the Biden-Harris HQ account flagged the video and its Nazi ID words. The video was subsequently deleted and Trump’s spox said that he was not at fault. But the golden girl was, if the Bulwark is right. I trust their reporting. They’re a solid outlet.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a junior staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a written statement that accused Democrats of being more antisemitic than Trump. The campaign wouldn’t identify the name of that “junior staffer,” but sources tell The Bulwark it was Harp. Scavino, one of the few others who has access to Trump’s Truth Social account, isn’t a “junior staffer.” Harp couldn’t be reached for comment.
The words “unified reich” are certainly important but that’s not the complete picture. The big picture is that the tone of the video was fascist and Nazi-esque on its face, “unified reich” or not. And this evidently appealed to Harp and that’s why she reposted it. As I said that day, shades of Ron DeSantis. He had people in his camp of similar sensibilities posting videos of him with Nazi imagery. This is nothing new to the Trump campaign, either.
“Trump previously used rhetoric echoing Adolf Hitler when he said immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ and called his opponents ‘vermin.’ The former president has also drawn wide backlash for having dined with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist in 2022 and for downplaying the 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white nationalists chanted ‘Jews will not replace us!'”
The Biden-Harris campaign also released this statement:
“America, stop scrolling and pay attention. Donald Trump is not playing games; he is telling America exactly what he intends to do if he regains power: rule as a dictator over a ‘unified reich.’ Parroting ‘Mein Kampf’ while you warn of a bloodbath if you lose is the type of unhinged behavior you get from a guy who knows that democracy continues to reject his extreme vision of chaos, division, and violence.”
Overnight, responding to the “unified Reich” video popular historian Heather Cox Richardson warned: “It is not clear to me how anyone can any longer deny that Trump is promising to destroy our democracy and usher in authoritarianism. But it is also not clear that he is still a figure that any but the extremes of his base will follow to that end. Hence his emphasis on turning them to violence.”
Journalist Gil Duran, who covers “tech fascism,” and “billionaire extremism,” says Trump’s “unified Reich” video was not an accident.
Trump's use of Nazi "reich" terminology to frame his campaign isn't an accident — it's a Trial Balloon.
As usual, he's floating offensive and outrageous idea to push extreme ideas and test public reaction.
More at FrameLab with @GeorgeLakoff : 🎈https://t.co/ZasdRYuORu pic.twitter.com/dSdHMsYS6I— gil duran (@gilduran76) May 21, 2024
Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi, now an NBC News National Security Analyst, also noted that the “reference to Hitler’s regime in Nazi Germany is not an accident.”
Former CIA analyst Gail Helt, responding to the Trump campaign’s claim it was posted by a staffer who didn’t see the “unified Reich” text, wrote: “Of course they knew. Of course they saw it. I hate Nazis.”
“Historian here,” wrote Professor of American history Dr. Manisha Sinha, snarkily responding to the Trump video. “Trump calls for a unified Reich but hey we are all being paranoid by calling him a wannabe fascist supported by neo Nazis and neo Confederates.”
Professor of history and expert on fascism and the Holocaust, the extreme right, and neo-Nazis, Dr. Federico Finchelstein, responding to a report on the “unified Reich” video, called it, “Wannabe fascism in motion…”
This is not normal for a candidate for president to be posting this kind of pro-Nazi rhetoric over and over again. The unified reich video was not a one off. It’s part of a steady pattern. Trump is telling us exactly who he is and so is his staff. Let’s believe them. America, wake up!
Trial balloon huh? Well, let’s just shoot that f*cker down why don’t we.
I don’t know if MSM are Nazis, scared of Nazis or hedging their bets, they need a ‘come to Jesus’ moment that last for another hundred years.