“Natalie Situation” “Danger” Has Secret Service Ripping Its Hair Out

It’s been said that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” Certainly that’s how Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and others of their ilk were able to indulge their perverse appetites with ease, because they offered money, position, parts in movies, an escape from a bad family life, all kinds of inducements that an ordinary joe isn’t going to be able to bring to the table. This is how these guys *made it* with females.

And then there’s Donald Trump. He, too, is able to induce an erotic fixation. Or so we are told. Trump reportedly has an aide who is “lovestruck” with him, the gal that they call “the human printer.” So either she’s under the spell of his power or maybe she likes his *looks* and I have to say I can’t parse that one at all. But then again so much of what has happened the past ten years has been beyond my capacity to understand that what’s one more conumdrum?

Secret Service agents have become concerned that one of Donald Trump’s aides – known as the “human printer” – could become a “potential danger to herself as well as to the president,” according to a new book.

Natalie Harp, a personal aide who follows the president around with a portable printer so he doesn’t strain his eyes looking at screens, has reportedly “unnerved” some in Trump’s orbit with her notes of devotion written on the printouts, and The Daily Beast reported that writer Michael Wolff claimed in his forthcoming book All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America that her “fixation” was an “open secret.”

“The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior,” Wolff writes. “’Nonsense,’ declared Trump. ‘She just loves her president.’”

The 34-year-old former One America News anchor credits Trump’s “Right to Try” law with saving her life by giving her access to experimental treatments for bone cancer, but the “aggressiveness of her attention” to Trump alarmed Secret Service agents who consider her “a security consideration,” according to Wolff.

Wolff’s book describes Trump’s relationship with “attractive women who worked for him,” whom Trump refers to as “Charlie’s Angels,” as “avuncular and flirtatious,” and the author describes one episode where Harp declined to join in sexualized chatter with lawyers Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan at the NCAA wrestling championship in Oklahoma in 2023.

“Trump’s subject of discourse at the NCAA event was which wrestlers the ‘ladies’ found most attractive,” Wolff wrote. “Everyone seemed happy to play along, critiquing the various bodies, rating them as their type or not. But Natalie couldn’t be moved.”

“Trump reportedly pressed her on the matter, ‘trying to make her obvious point even more obvious to everyone listening in with disbelief and embarrassment,’ which Wolff claims was that she only had ‘eyes’ for Trump,” The Beast reported.

She only has eyes for Donald. OMFG. Well, you’ve heard my take on all this, that the dynamic in play is power as aphrodisiac. We are told by articles written in the day that Henry Kissinger had the same thing going, although in Kissinger’s case he at least had an intellect that justified his power. Yes, Trump has power, but he’s a boorish, stupid, fat, ugly, uncouth slob who inherited a lot of money and created a fantasy TV persona — which he then sold as the real thing. Dross was sold as gold and Americans were stupid enough to buy. To paraphrase P.T. Barnum, “Nobody ever lost an election underestimating the judgement of the American public.”

Machiavelli also said that “the vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.” That was written circa 1500 and is still true today. I find myself increasingly gobsmacked at the polarization in this country that has allowed Trump to succeed at this level. But this gal does seem to have some kind of a problem above and beyond even the level of most of Trump’s cultists.

His team sometimes tries to address what they call “the Natalie situation” by not providing her housing when they travel, such as Trump’s return to Bedminster, New Jersey, in the summer of 2023, but Harp reportedly contacted country club staff and secured herself a maid’s room, Wolff reported.

“When that proved too far from the main house to respond quickly enough to Trump’s calls, she relocated herself to the much closer women’s locker room, where, with undiminished proximity to Trump, she would spend the summer,” he wrote.

Harp’s alleged “obsession with Trump and her lovestruck adulation” has earned his trust, Wolff wrote, to the point where she contacts lawmakers on his behalf and is now the “the keeper of the ‘Truth’ phone,” according to the book, putting her “wholly in charge of the Trump posts” online.

Even at the end of WWII, we are told that Hitler had his sychophants in the bunker, begging him to “lead us, Mein Fuhrer!” evidently not grasping that he had indeed led them as far as they were going to be led, which was to die or be captured in a bunker in Berlin.

But that is the essence of a cult. The charismatic cult leader has such power that the cultists never stop believing, and are willing — eager, even — to die with him. I guess the question we should be asking is, “will it get to the Kool-Aide level with Trump’s cultists?” Or maybe we should just be asking, “WHEN will it get there?”

Because however this ends, it will not be pretty.

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