NATALIE HARP & DONALD TRUMP

“You are all that matters to me,” Natalie Harp wrote to Donald Trump. In another letter, she told him, “I don’t ever want to let you down,” then thanked him for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.” Elsewhere she wanted to recover “that synergy” they once shared, when “we’d talk about everything and nothing,” and told him, “I want to bring you joy, to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk ‘work.’” The letters were written during the years in which Harp moved steadily closer to Trump, eventually entering the White House as an Assistant to the President with direct access to him, his communications, and the material placed before him.

Harp’s religious formation began long before Trump. Liberty University records that she earned her MBA there in 2015 and later described the school as helping her become a “Christ-centered woman in the workplace.” She praised an educational philosophy in which “every field of knowledge is treated as a mission field,” specifically including politics. Her father, Robert Harp, spent years at Biola University advancing Christian entrepreneurship and a view of business connected explicitly to ministry. Christianity ran through education, vocation, professional purpose, and public life in the institutions surrounding her.

Her estranged brother Preston Harp says her interest in presidents began while she was still a teenager. According to his account, Natalie was writing letters to presidents around age 16, including George W. Bush during the Iraq War. Those letters have not surfaced publicly, leaving his recollection as the available evidence for that period. The account places presidential attachment years before Trump entered Harp’s life.

Cancer changed the course of her adult life. Harp has described Stage 2 bone cancer, failed chemotherapy, chronic pain, and a serious medical error. She later credited Trump’s federal Right to Try law with allowing her to receive treatment that saved her life. Congress records that Trump signed the federal law on May 30, 2018. The FDA states that the law concerns qualifying investigational drugs that have not received ordinary FDA approval. Harp had described receiving an FDA-approved drug for an unapproved use, and she had publicly discussed receiving the treatment before the federal law was signed. Medical experts later disputed the causal connection she drew between the law and her treatment.

Harp’s own account of her survival placed Trump at the center of it. At the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in 2019, she retold the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan through her medical experience and called Trump “my Good Samaritan, President Donald J. Trump.” At the 2020 Republican National Convention, she addressed him directly: “I wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for you.” She continued, “Without you, I’d have died waiting.” Her recovery had become intertwined with a political figure whom she described through the language of rescue and survival.

The private correspondence that followed carried that language into a more personal register. In letters written in 2023 and later reviewed by journalists, Harp told Trump, “You are all that matters to me.” She wrote, “I don’t ever want to let you down.” She thanked him for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.” Another letter referred to a closeness she wanted restored: “I want to get back to that synergy,” she wrote, recalling when “we’d talk about everything and nothing.” She added, “I want to bring you joy, to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk ‘work.’” Two people with direct knowledge confirmed the authenticity of the correspondence to the journalists who reviewed it.

Another letter placed Trump directly inside Harp’s assessment of herself. “After going through all this self-analysis, my conclusion? I need to reunite my past self with my current into a better version who will make you proud.” She then wrote, “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.” The letter refers to a promise Trump made after the death of her father, then adapts a quotation about parting with someone for a person “less worthy.” Harp turns the judgment toward herself: “And, I will add, it is I who am unworthy. Always, Natalie.” A postscript discusses the scars on her hands and ends, “Still on the road to recovery!”

The Scotland correspondence continued along the same personal line. Harp apologized after following Trump around his golf course, writing, “I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland.” She continued, “I want things to always be right between us.” During the same passage, she described forgetting to eat, forgetting to sleep, and sometimes getting only a couple of hours of sleep at a time. The letter closed, “With all my heart, Natalie.”

Michael Wolff has attributed another note to Harp that contains the most overtly religious language yet reported. According to Wolff, aides gave him notes in which Harp wrote, “You’re the alpha and the omega, the be-all and end-all. What would I be without you?” The original handwritten note has not been released publicly, and Wolff’s account remains the source for that specific wording.

“Alpha and Omega” is a divine title in Revelation. Harp’s religious education makes the phrase difficult to separate from the Christian vocabulary in which she was raised. She described herself as “Christ-centered.” She studied at Christian institutions. She spoke publicly about politics as a mission field. She framed her recovery through the parable of the Good Samaritan. She called Trump her protector. She described herself as unworthy. She told him that he was all that mattered to her.

The language sits alongside behavior that has drawn increasing attention. Harp remained close to Trump throughout the campaign and entered the White House after his return to office. She carried a portable printer so material could be placed before him wherever he was. She obtained access to his Truth Social account. She traveled with him. She remained beside him during official meetings. The White House photographed her next to Trump while he drafted a Truth Social post during a meeting with European leaders.

Trump has reportedly spoken openly about Harp’s loyalty. Accounts from people around him say he has told aides that Harp loves him as much as his wife and children. He has also reportedly contrasted her with employees who might eventually leave for more lucrative work, telling them, “She’ll never leave me.” Harp’s letters did not result in her removal from his orbit. Her access expanded.

The exchange between them contains a striking reciprocity. Harp receives proximity to the man she credits with saving her life and repeatedly seeks his approval. Trump receives extraordinary personal loyalty from an aide positioned within his information and communications environment. Harp’s own letters connect her emotional condition to his judgment of her. Trump’s reported comments indicate that he recognizes the permanence of her attachment and values it.

Religious devotion has its own vocabulary of service, obedience, worthiness, sacrifice, protection, and complete commitment. Harp’s correspondence repeatedly enters that vocabulary without any known formal religious declaration about Trump. She wants to make him proud. She invites correction from him. She calls herself unworthy. She calls him protector. She writes that he is all that matters. She asks what she would be without him. She signs one letter “Always” and another “With all my heart.”

The comparison to religious consecration begins with those words and continues through the structure of Harp’s life around Trump. Christian tradition has long included forms of life in which devotion becomes vocation, daily service acquires spiritual meaning, obedience becomes part of identity, and the individual organizes personal choices around a central sacred authority. Harp has made no known religious vows to Trump. Her documented behavior nevertheless places extraordinary amounts of time, attention, identity, and emotional energy into service to him.

Her earlier life adds depth to that pattern. Christianity shaped her education. Her family treated professional life as a place for ministry. Her own words placed politics inside a mission field. Illness gave her an experience she later narrated through biblical rescue. Trump became the person she credited with keeping her alive. Years later, the language had moved from “Good Samaritan” to “Guardian and Protector,” from gratitude to worthiness, from political loyalty to statements that he was “all that matters.”

The question of whether Harp literally believes Trump is the Second Coming remains unanswered because no public statement establishes it. The available record reaches something adjacent to that proposition without crossing it. A woman formed inside evangelical Christianity has described Donald Trump through salvation, protection, mission, obedience, worthiness, sacrifice, and possibly one of Christianity’s most explicit divine titles. She has organized much of her professional life around remaining beside him. He has rewarded that loyalty with extraordinary proximity to presidential power.

Her own words remain the clearest record of where the relationship has gone.

“You are all that matters to me.”

“Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

“I want to bring you joy.”

“You have the absolute right to cuss me out.”

“No one knows or cares about me more.”

“It is I who am unworthy.”

“You’re the alpha and the omega.”

“With all my heart, Natalie.”