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Trump’s Staff Swapped X-Rated Question About Natalie: Author

Staff members questioned whether the then-candidate was “spanking” one of his young aides.

Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign staff questioned whether he was “spanking” Natalie Harp, the president’s longtime biographer has alleged.

Trump’s staff joked about him “patting” his assistant, then in her early 30s, in places aside from her head, the author Michael Wolff tells the Inside Trump’s Head Podcast.

“Actually, within the campaign they joked about him patting her somewhere else,” Wolff said on Thursday’s episode. “‘Has the boss been spanking Natalie?’”

Co-host Joanna Coles asked Wolff if that is what staffers would ask among themselves.

Wolff confirmed, “Yes. Yeah, no, everyone was aware. This was upfront, the strangeness of this relationship, the strangeness of her submissiveness to him. And, you know, because it actually put everyone else into—everyone else who has to be submissive to the president seemed not submissive enough because of how extreme her submissiveness was.”

Coles then joked, “So they were out-submitting each other.”

Reached for comment, the White House told the Daily Beast, “Michael Wolff is a professional scumbag and serial liar whose brain has been completely warped by his severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Wolff’s bombshell claim came in the same episode that he made public a pair of fawning letters that Harp penned to Trump during or immediately after a visit to Scotland in 2023.

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“You are all that matters to me,” Harp wrote to Trump in one of the letters. “I don’t want to ever let you down.”

Questions are now swirling over the national security implications of 35-year-old Harp’s status as the 80-year-old Trump’s most significant gatekeeper—one reportedly being used as a conduit to the president by foreign leaders.

A former host on the right-wing One America News Network, Harp now makes $150,000 annually as the president’s executive assistant. That role reportedly includes posting to Truth Social on the president’s behalf. She is also seen as a firewall between the president and the outside world, since much of what he reads and responds to comes via what Harp prints out for him.

Reports say she is now screening his calls from other world leaders, though she initially refused to secure a basic security clearance.

The letters revealed by Wolff were written during, or immediately after, Trump’s May 2023 golfing trip to his courses in Aberdeen and Turnberry, Scotland, and Doonbeg, Ireland. One letter was an apology, suggesting she worried she had upset Trump during the trip.

After conceding that her actions—like not using a golf cart—may have let Trump down, she wrote to him that he was “my Guardian and Protector in this life.”

Harp’s second letter is even more intimate, thanking Trump for forcing her to “unplug.”

“We could be out on the Course, with no machines, and even forget what time it was! 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,” she wrote. “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!).”

Harp went so far as to say that she missed the days when she was still just a right-wing talk show host who could speak with Trump more casually by phone.

“I’ve always felt like an in-betweener, somewhere between Staff and those you enjoy talking to on the Plane or at Dinner, because that’s who I used to be to you when I was a ‘Talkshow Host’ (as much as I hated that actual job!),” she writes. “I wish I could hear every conversation, because that’s when you’re having a good time, getting away from it all, at least for a few moments.”

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