‘I Don’t Think It’s a Physical Attraction’: Trump Aide’s Brother Reacts to Sister’s ‘Infatuation’ with President

Preston Harp, the brother of President Donald Trump’s close aide Natalie Harp, issued a message to his sister on CNN while denying a “physical attraction” toward the president.

Preston Harp joined Erin Burnett on CNN’s OutFront on Tuesday evening following his sister, whom he has been estranged from, finding herself at the center of heated debates after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) name-checked her when blasting Trump’s priorities.

Natalie Harp is a close aide to Trump and travels with him often, even making the cut of officials who were recently taken off of Air Force One, along with the president, secretly in Turkey over an Iranian threat to the president. Others left on Air Force One were unaware of the threat.

Preston Harp said about his sister and Trump:

Well, my mom raised us with the idea that American exceptionalism was the correct way of looking at things, that the United States is the boss of the world, that, like, you know, slavery was — back then, that was normal, people weren’t bad because they had slaves. And honestly, and it’s like Trump wants to take all those books out of schools. He wants to rewrite history. And so like I think that my sister, unfortunately, didn’t break out of that delusion that my mom raised us with, and Trump is like everything that my Mom taught us to respect. So I think that’s where her infatuation for Trump comes from, honestly, because I don’t think it’s a physical attraction. Let’s get real, you know, like, personally, I don’t think so.

Harp cracked up and lost his train of thought multiple times during the interview discussing his sister’s closeness to Trump.

Ossoff naming her and the Air Force One switch has brought more attention — and criticism — to her role in the White House.

Ossoff recently described Harp as Trump’s “security blanket,” and Burnett noted reports that Harp has been called Trump’s “human printer.”

“I’ve heard this particular aide referred to as his security blanket. And I think we could say that about any number of the senior aides in the White House. They’re not telling him what he needs to hear. They’re telling him what he wants to hear. And the nation is at war. And we cannot afford that,” Ossoff told MS NOW.

Preston Harp addressed his sister at one point and said he hopes she “changes” and “wakes up.” He chalked up her closeness to Trump to his sister previously crediting the president with saving her life. Natalie Harp suffered from bone cancer and has long claimed Trump’s easing of restrictions allowed her to more easily receive treatment.

“She’s his biggest fan. And so that’s probably why he likes her,” Preston Harp said. “And like, she’s good looking. She’s got a good personality. Like, I don’t know…I mean, she thinks that he saved — he thinks that he saved your life, so like, somebody living with that kind of gratitude, that must feel pretty good.”

Watch above via CNN.

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