Updated
Updated · CNN · Aug 22
CNN Review Finds Natalie Harp Posted 150 Jan. 6 Tweets Backing Trump
Updated
Updated · CNN · Aug 22

CNN Review Finds Natalie Harp Posted 150 Jan. 6 Tweets Backing Trump

3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 22

Summary

  • More than 150 tweets from Natalie Harp’s now-removed account on Jan. 6 showed the future White House aide urging Republicans to “FIGHT FOR TRUMP” and praising demonstrators as “patriots.”
  • CNN said Harp echoed Trump’s false stolen-election claims, amplified Rudy Giuliani’s “trial by combat” line, and kept posting after the Capitol breach by blaming Antifa and later sharing Trump’s call for rioters to go home.
  • Hours after Congress halted the electoral count, Harp circulated Giuliani’s remarks about using the delay to create “a few more options” and praised lawmakers and six senators who still backed objections to Biden’s win.
  • The review also traced her loyalty campaign to the weeks before Jan. 6 and back to at least 2016, including posts calling Biden’s victory “A COUP” and repeated declarations of devotion to Trump.
  • Harp, now a close aide in Trump’s second-term White House, drew fresh scrutiny this week after Sen. Jon Ossoff named her in a speech and the Daily Beast published letters reportedly pledging loyalty to Trump.

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How does a single aide's intense loyalty shape the daily information diet of a powerful world leader?