Natalie Harp Once Claimed Trump Saved Her Life in Bizarre Resurfaced Clip

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Donald Trump’s trusted aide, Natalie Harp, whose letters to the president were said to have “alarmed” the Secret Service, once claimed Trump saved her from a near-fatal “medical error.”

The newly-resurfaced 2018 video was posted by a MAGA enthusiast, and features Harp telling her medical story to the camera.

“I didn’t care much about politics until politics didn’t care much about me. I’m Natalie Harp. Two years ago, I was the victim of medical error,” Harp said, continuing:

Accidentally infused with sterile water, I went into hemorrhagic shock, losing 100% of the average person’s blood platelets, but only 30% of my own. Thanks to a rare blood condition, I became the only survivor of sterile water infusion. But today, I have cancer and chronic pain.

I’ve had to pay my own medical bills, been denied appointments, prescribed opioids, given access to life-ending drugs, and every problem could be traced back to politics.

The video cut to clips of Trump saying, “I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, of which there is so much. No sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. When innocent people suffer because our political system lacks the will or the courage or the basic decency to enforce our laws, or is still worse, has sold out to some corporate lobbyists for cash. I am not able to look the other way, and I won’t look the other way. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”

Harp ended the video saying, “The elites thought they held the Trump card, but they didn’t count on Donald Trump like I did.”

In a recent profile, Time Magazine reported, “In 2019, Harp went on Fox News and thanked Trump for signing the Right to Try law the year before. She told the network that she had stage 2 bone cancer, and that the new law allowed her to access experimental treatments, which she said saved her life.”

Trump reportedly saw the Fox News interview and asked the 35-year-old former news anchor to tell her story at the 2020 Republican National Convention.

The New York Times quoted Harp saying at the time, “When I failed the chemotherapies that were on the market, no one wanted me in their clinical trials. They didn’t give me the right to try experimental treatments, Mr. President. You did, and without you, I’d have died waiting for them to be approved.”

However, a Washington Post story published after the convention said that experts “cast doubt” on Harp’s story.

“They point out that Harp’s description of the treatment she received and her timeline for receiving it make it unlikely Trump had any effect on her case,” the story said.

Harp’s name has dominated headlines since Sunday, when Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) quipped during a Sunday campaign rally that the president would rather “travel with Natalie” than do his job.

“Natalie Harp is one of the most loyal and hardest-working aides on President Trump’s team,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Mediaite in a statement. “The Fake News’s continued attacks on President Trump and his Administration prove exactly why trust in media is at historic lows. The media should focus on reporting real news and stop trying to smear dedicated public servants.”

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