A top Republican has pulled back the curtain on how Natalie Harp helped spark President Donald Trump’s private blowup last summer.
Sen. Ted Cruz, 55, said he inadvertently got front-row seats to Trump’s Oval Office rampage during his public feud with Elon Musk in June 2025.
In an interview on Patrick Bet-David’s PDB Podcast, Cruz said he was at the White House at the time to make the case for a school choice provision that he needed Trump’s support for.
“I went over to the Oval to talk to Trump because I wanted to get him really enthusiastic and engaged in it,” he said. “And so we’re making the case to Trump, and in the middle of it, that is when Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was on the Epstein list.”
Musk rocked the White House last year when he posted on X to accuse the president of concealing the Epstein files to protect himself.
“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk wrote. “That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
He later added, “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
But Trump, 80, is no longer personally active on social media—so his “human printer” stepped in, Cruz said.
“So what happens when something gets tweeted is [it’s] printed out. Natalie comes in, printed on a piece of paper and hands it to him. And he literally reads that tweet,” he explained.
Harp, 35, began working for Trump in 2022 after leaving her role as anchor and host at the right-wing news network One America News. The adoring aide earned the moniker “human printer” by following Trump around, fulfilling his every request, including fetching merchandise, performing Google searches, printing stories from right-wing websites, and suggesting possible Truth Social posts. She earns a taxpayer-funded salary of $150,000 a year.
Cruz said he witnessed Trump fly into a fit of rage as he read Musk’s post.
“I’m sitting in the Oval, and his knuckles turn white. I don’t know what it is yet. I mean, he shows it to us,” he said. “And he was so pissed.”
“I joked, I learned some curse words I didn’t even know,” he continued. “And I will say our school choice meeting went off the rails and like we were done talking about school choice and, and Trump had some technicolor views to say about Elon.”
Trump and Musk have since patched up their rocky friendship, much to Cruz’s delight.
“Now I’m glad they have patched it up. I’m good friends with Elon as well,” he said. “It was not good for America to have the two of them battling, but that’s a moment I will never forget, of just like the, ‘OK, there’s a hand grenade thrown in the middle of everything.’”
