Conservative CEO Stuns CNN Guests By Claiming Natalie Harp Should Be ‘The Poster Child’ For Feminists

Conservative CEO Amy Robbins stunned CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip by declaring that Natalie Harp should be “the poster child” for feminists.

Harp has become one of Donald Trump’s most trusted aides, and her devotion to the president has caused tongues to wag around Washington, D.C.

Phillip played a clip of The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman referring to Harp as Trump’s comfort “binkie.”

“According to people we’ve spoken to in the president’s world over several years now, she doesn’t really do much outside of work,” Haberman said of Harp. “She works constantly for him. That is something that he has a huge amount of value in. I described her the other day as, as you know, a binkie for lack of a better way of putting it, a comfort blanket.”

Robbins immediately jumped on the comment, saying, “Everything that she just mentioned, you guys, is she — Natalie Harp should be the poster child for modern day feminists! She’s a hard worker. She is resourceful.”

As Adam Mockler of MediasTouch attempted to interject, Robbins added, “She climbed the corporate ladder. She sacrificed. She didn’t even sleep, she didn’t even eat, and she got to one of the highest positions in the country!”

“Hold on,” Phillip interrupted. “I’m sorry — not sleeping and not eating, writing unhealthy-sounding notes to your boss, never doing anything outside of work. Sounds like honestly something, somebody that needs an intervention. People love her and care about her probably should ask her how she’s doing.”

“This is not a double standard. This is not a case of a close inner circle, like you implied,” Mockler said to Robbins. “This is definitely not a case of feminism. It’s kind of sad.

“It made me sad reading these letters, and she seems to have a unique attachment to Donald Trump. Feminism is not giving away your entire life to write sappy messages saying they are sorry 100 times, or acting like you have Stockholm Syndrome, for some reason,” he added. “Feminism is fighting for your own equality or pushing for, I don’t know, women to have equal rights. This feels like a really weird situation. Can you at least admit that it’s a weird situation?”

“I will admit that this is odd. It is odd,” Robbins said.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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