Who is Natalie Harp? Ossoff ignites personal feud over Trump's aide

A key Democratic lawmaker and potential 2028 contender's jab at a close aide to President Donald Trump has ignited a personal feud that could reverberate into a critical battleground midterm race.

Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia invoked Natalie Harp by first name during a Sunday rally in Atlanta, accusing Trump of prioritizing travel with the 35-year-old aide over his wartime duties.

Ossoff: "While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings, he golfs, and trades stocks."

Ossoff: "He doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar."

Ossoff's audience cheered the attack, and commenters on X pointed particularly to his decision to invoke Harp.

Trump, asked about the remarks in the Oval Office, said he would "much rather do other things" and insisted the project was "building a great facility" that was "much more than a ballroom".

White House communications director Steven Cheung posted: "Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he's a miserable person who hates this country."

Another White House spokesman, Davis Ingle, called Ossoff a "cringeworthy, feminine theatre kid cosplaying as Barack Obama" and a "lightweight loser".

CNN reports Harp "follows Trump around with a printer and the president dictates many of his social media posts and text messages through her, offering her a position of influence through proximity."

Harp, a former One America News personality, credited Trump's Right to Try Act with saving her life after a 2019 bone cancer diagnosis. On Fox & Friends in 2019 she said: "I'm not dying from cancer anymore. Thanks to President Trump, I'm living with cancer."

Letters Harp wrote to Trump in 2023, reported by the New York Times and quoted in CNN's piece, included "You are all that matters to me" and "I want to bring you joy."

CNN notes a June Fox News poll had Ossoff up 13 points over Republican challenger Rep. Mike Collins in the Georgia Senate race.