Who is Natalie Harp? Trump’s closest and most devoted aide is in the spotlight

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Wearing shoulder-length blonde hair, gold earrings and a red dress, cancer survivor Natalie Harp introduced herself to the 2020 Republican national convention as a formerly forgotten American from California" and compared Donald Trump with George Bailey, the everyman hero played by James Stewart in the classic film It's a Wonderful Life.

George Bailey's father was right," smiled Harp, her voice echoing in the Andrew W Mellon auditorium in pandemic-hit Washington. All you can take with you is that which you've given away. Mr President, that makes you the richest man in the world."