Among the most intriguing aspects of the 2024 presidential election campaign is how Donald Trump came to be accompanied during his every waking hour by a now 33-year-old woman named Natalie Harp. No one else spent as much time with the 78-year-old. No one had better access. Yet, as I discovered while writing my new book All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, Harp had no obvious political background or a precise job function in the campaign. All of which made her presence that much more difficult to explain. Few questions haunted Trump's campaign staff, his closest circle of congressional supporters (who Harp is said to have continually spammed with emails), and even his own family as much as the Natalie questions: Who is she? What does she do? Why is she here? Well, she was a 2012 Point Loma Nazarene University graduate, and 2015 Liberty University MBA, who then publicly credited her recovery from cancer to Trump and the 'Right to Try' law enacted during his first administration, which, she said, allowed her to get the experimental medication she needed. That heavy praise earned her a speaking berth at the 2020 Republican convention. And then… a job, beginning in 2022, as the 'go-fetch-it girl' on Trump's nascent campaign. One of her central assignments was to follow behind Trump on the golf course – in her own cart – while carrying a portable printer and, at each stop, supply him with hard-copies of the emails and articles she thought he should see. (Hence her DC nickname: 'the human printer'). As his campaign got properly underway in 2023, Trump's staffers were starting to facetiously refer to Harp as 'the chief of staff'. By early 2024, it was far from facetious. Harp had become the shield and enforcer around Trump. There was little information that got to him that did not come through her. In those piles of papers that she supplied him with, she also began to slip letters of an alarming and likely imagined intimacy. 'You are all that matters to me. I don't want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this life,' she wrote. An increasingly concerned staff started to plan how to protect their candidate from his apparently besotted aide. They confiscated her golf cart — but she ran after him on the golf course, carrying the printer on her back. When Trump went to stay at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey in the summer of 2023, Natalie wasn't given accommodation — but she went anyway and slept in the women's locker room. The Secret Service weighed in with its concern. Nonsense, declared Trump. 'She just loves her president.' He would openly and, perhaps embarrassingly, indulge her. 'Maybe' he offered, during one staff meeting, Natalie should change her name to 'Nathalie. That's how the English say it. "Nathalie, would you please come here?" Don't you think there's a ring to that, Nathalie? Do you like it?' 'Do you like it, Mr. President?' she replied. While there is no suggestion that anything untoward happened between the pair, Trump's staff recognized that it was still of the utmost importance to him to be surrounded by young and attractive women. There was his aide Hope Hicks for his first term in the White House; Madeleine Westerhout his White House secretary; Molly Michaels and Margo Martin in Mar-a-Lago; and, of course, his wife Melania, and eldest daughter Ivanka. But the problem, at least to some concerned staffers, was that Harp had advanced her arm-candy position to one of real power and influence. With the presidential campaign escalating, she supplied and controlled his news digest; she composed many of his social media posts; she spoke to the media on his behalf. Even in meetings with foreign leaders, she would often be the first person they greeted after Trump himself. And there was no breaking her position. Harp fought tenaciously to maintain it. Even when, after the first assassination attempt in July last year, new security arrangements were put in place, she made sure she was exempt from them. And Trump, as one staffer put it, wasn't going anywhere without 'his security blanket'. Indeed, the more his staff and Secret Service detail tried to separate them, the more Harp seemed to become a way for Trump to demonstrate that he would continue to do now as he had always done: give special status to the people who were most abjectly worshipful to him. He was sending a message, one staffer said: Natalie and her slavish devotion was the standard he expected. She was, as another staffer put it, part of his 'reality warp'. Many Trump-watchers often wondered how he coped, facing myriad investigations, trials and indictments – even the possibility of a lifetime in jail. Any other mere mortal would surely have thrown in the towel long ago. But Trump, the theory went, was able to persevere and believe he would triumph precisely because of people like Harp. She, along with a coterie of other boosters and 'yes men', told him exactly what he wanted to hear. They soothed him and protected him. As one insider noted, the most distinctive thing about Donald Trump was that he had no self-doubt, never questioning what he was doing, never concerned that his actions or words might not be the right ones. How do you achieve this state of utter certainty and absolute will to keep charging on? You get yourself a Natalie Harp. The White House, when contacted for comment on this column, declined to provide an on-the-record statement. However, on February 23, President Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that Michael Wolff's new book, from which the above article is adapted, is 'a total FAKE JOB, just like the other JUNK he wrote.