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'My Guardian and Protector': Natalie Harp letters express her devotion to Trump

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President Donald Trump's close aide Natalie Harp expressed her utmost loyalty to him in at least two letters addressed to the president, which were published by The Daily Beast on Thursday amid increased scrutiny of the close aide's relationship to Trump. "I want things to always be right between us," Harp wrote in one of the letters, which were printed out and signed. It began with "Dear Mr. President" and concluded with, "With all my heart, Natalie." "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." "I miss the days when you used to call, during my Talkshow days, and we'd talk about everything and nothing," Harp wrote. "I want to get back to that synergy. We shouldn't have to talk about work all the time!!" "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." Natalie Harp has been the subject of recent internet commentary after it emerged she was one of the few aides with Trump during a secret Air Force One swap in July. Harp, a former television news personality, is frequently seen at Trump's side and has been dubbed the 'human printer' for supplying the president with print-outs of information. In the book 'Regime Change' published this year, two New York Times reporters wrote that Harp's loyalty extended to writing him 'adoring letters' including one that read: 'You are all that matters to me.' Harp is omnipresent in Trump's orbit, officials familiar with her role have told CNN. But unlike past staff secretaries and aides to the president — like Trump's former personal secretary Madeleine Westerhout, who similarly served as the president's gatekeeper of information during his first term — she doesn't sit outside the Oval Office, but in it. Their working relationship is so effective, officials said, because of her total loyalty to the president. But Harp's methods have irked senior aides and at times prompted efforts to box her out of the president's inner circle, according to multiple sources who described her dynamic with Trump. She is known as the 'human printer' — a title she referenced in one of the letters, in which she said Trump 'forced me to 'unplug'' during a trip to Scotland and Ireland. "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 wrote.