By now you’ve likely heard of Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump’s executive assistant and personal ego-inflater, a 35-year-old loyalist who appears ever by the president’s side.

She went from background character in the Trump administration to a national focal point in a blink after Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff spoke this line criticizing the president’s preoccupations and the luxury jet he was “gifted” by a foreign country: “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.”

Questions swirled, and suddenly, Harp was everywhere. America learned how she carries a portable printer so she can show the president printouts of people saying nice things about him. We heard about the time she rode in the trunk of an SUV to stay close to Trump.

The weird story of Natalie Harp put Republicans on their heels

The coast-to-coast cringe that the Harp story caused shows exactly why Ossoff was smart to drop her name into his criticism of Trump: It’s a very weird story, one that highlights the weirdness endemic to this administration. It also........

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