Bill Maher Defends Trump’s ‘Emotional Support Employee’ Natalie Harp: ‘Why Can’t I Get a Millennial to Work Like That?’

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Bill Maher came to the defense of President Donald Trump’s close aide Natalie Harp, arguing people are simply looking for “someone new to hate.”

On Friday’s Real Time, Maher tackled the subject of Harp and the headlines she’s sparked this week in his opening monologue.

The devoted presidential aide caused controversy after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) quipped Trump would rather “travel with Natalie” than do his job — and MAGA supporters claimed the comment insinuated an untoward relationship between the pair.

Maher sarcastically called Harp Trump’s “emotional support employee” — while noting he was previously sued by Laura Loomer for joking that she may have been having an affair with the president.

Maher also referenced being sued by the president for joking that he should prove he is not the “spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan:”

The Democratic Party has a new attack dog and he’s very good at it. Sen. John Ossoff… He really went after Trump this week and in the middle of it he mentioned Natalie Harp.

That’s the young lady who works for Trump. When he got on the catering cart she came with him off the plane. So this has set all sorts of rumors going on now about their relationship.

Okay, let me tell you folks, I got sued about this once. No, not the orangutan. No, this this was just a couple of years ago. Laura Loomer sued me.

Okay, I won by the way, but it’s, uh, it’s expensive and unpleasant to get sued, so you know what, I took one for the team on this, you handle it.

Harp was one of the few officials to recently make the cut and join Trump in an Air Force One plane switch in Turkey that occurred after an Iranian threat. Most Cabinet members, journalists and other officials were left on Air Force One after Trump and others were moved by Secret Service.

Trump’s close aide has spoken very highly of him, crediting him with helping to save her life when she received experimental treatments for bone cancer. Her role reportedly includes typing out Trump’s statements onto social media, collecting positive news clippings, and more.

Maher joked that he wishes he could find a millennial to work as hard as Harp seems to for the president:

All I’m going to say… Natalie is kind of Trump’s emotional support employee, that’s true. She travels with him everywhere and she brings a portable wireless printer so she can print out flattering news articles.

Trump is old school. He wants hard copies of the smoke blowing up his a*s. But that’s on him. I don’t know why you have to go after her, you know?

She seems incredibly devoted to her job, never takes a day off. Sometimes she works so hard she forgets to eat and sleep, and now everyone in America is saying the same thing: why can’t I get a millennial who works like that?

There is, you know, a little more to the story. She had bone cancer in her 20s. She likes Trump because he speeded up experimental treatments, which she believes helped her.

But you know in America it’s just like, oh good, someone new to hate.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said this week that Secret Service had previously been “alarmed” by letters written by Harp to the president, some of which have been published. The letters included messages like, “You are all that matters to me.”

“The Secret Service had gotten alarmed by some of them. That was not– well, that was notable. That was a campaign. That was different. She is now in the government,” Haberman said. “She sits 10 feet away from the president. She is a stream of information to him. He does rely on her. And I don’t expect that to change.”

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