President Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Both people said Harp’s reasoning for declining to complete the process was unknown. After concerns mounted among the White House counsel’s office and security officials, the president himself intervened, and Harp in recent months filled out the forms to launch a formal federal background investigation and received the clearance, one of the people said.

The lack of a security clearance is one of several red flags raised about Harp internally by Trump’s top aides since he returned to the White House in January 2025. Harp operates unusually close to the president and filters much of the information Trump sees on a daily basis, and that proximity has spurred frustration inside the West Wing, according to those two people and two other people granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal and sensitive dynamics.

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    What a time to be an international spy. Over the past year you could easily honeypot top persons in the US with a young blonde, a case of booze, or a rent boy who doesn’t mind bumpy “ladybugs”.

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    Considering who is running things there, I don’t get why anyone else’s security clearance even matters, other than maybe increased bandwidth.

    It should just be assumed that all national secrets are known by whoever offered money for them and any security that remains is likely more through obscurity than because of any clearance requirements.

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      Because we want whatever parts of our government not being actively interfered with to work correctly? Because it’s yet another charge that should be levied against whoever let that happen? Because historians will have a fun challenge trying to compile a complete list of illegal activities by this administration, and how they somehow made themselves above the law? Yet another point against Mitch McConnell as the second worst person in history to sabotage the us?

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          I think of it as I want the smoke detectors to work even when the building is engulfed in flames, in the hope that it will save some lives

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    But Hillary’s emails!!

    I’m not saying Hillary is fine to be clear, I am, however, saying that these guys don’t believe in anything but enriching themselves.

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    I don’t care how much money I raked in, I would never wash that things stanky ass. She probably does it with a big ol creepy grin too, the kind where you can count her molars. Gross.

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      I know people think she’s a nurse or some shit.

      She is not. She was a TV “personality” on OAN, where she was creepily in love with Trump even by the unhinged standards of that network.

      If anything, she’s gotten more obsessed since she started working directly for Trump.

      She claims he cured her cancer.

      I have no doubt that Natalie would polish Trump’s knob or wipe his ass, but that isn’t her job. Her job is combing the Internet for posts by people as unhinged as she is, so she can print them and show them to Trump to fluff his ego. She does this all day every day. And likely throws in a lot of slop while she’s at it.

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        According to her brother in an interview, she has a President fetish. She was infatuated with Bush and sent him letters at least. Trump just responded and gave her access, because of course he would.

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          Yup, she literally just wants to be the next Lewinsky. She doesn’t actually care who the president is, as long as she gets to be on his knob. It’s the office she’s attracted to, not the specific person. Trump was simply the only president dumb enough to respond to her and grant her access.

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            She might have started out wanting to be the next Lewinsky, but now she controls all information Trump sees, controls his social media, and messages other parts of the government and even world leaders in his name.

            But she also seems to fully worship Trump, she’s his high priestess, pouring devotion onto him, 24/7.

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      The last one was a redhead, not Trump’s type. So they sent this one.

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    There’s another guy in the white house that raises alarm bells. You might know him. Wears a red tie everywhere he goes and looks like he’s lost all the time. His names Don or something like that. I dunno, probably not.

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    1. he’s 1000% fucking her. Maybe that’s why kkkaroline levvit left? because she was no longer his favorite blonde bimbo toy?

    2. Remember when conservatives were all up in arms about Bill Clinton and kept saying that the president should be a moral leader? lol

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      Levit left because of the plane thing. Trump left a bunch of people to die, and while levit wasn’t there, she sort of realized she would have been one of the people left to die.

      And miss Harp, the unhinged cultist, was taken to the real plane.

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    Its called an interim clearance, it can take over a year to get that level of a clearance full vetted.

    Source: I have a clearance.

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      President Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House

      We’re not talking routine time to process here.