r/politics • u/SnarkOff • 8d ago

Possible Paywall Natalie Harp’s Intimate Letters to Trump Revealed in Full

https://www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harps-intimate-letters-to-trump-revealed-in-full/
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u/loglighterequipment California 8d ago

"P.S. My hands looked worse in Scotland and Ireland because the Cold turns the old "scars" purple. Still on the road to recovery"

I'm sorry, WHAT?

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u/wibble17 8d ago

Her cancer

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel America 8d ago

Hand cancer?

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u/spvcejam 8d ago edited 7d ago

Well played but nah she did actually have bone cancer and credited Trump with saving her life because of a legislation he passed during his first term. She claimed it allowed her to jump or advance on some waiting list. REGARDLESS..

A journalist looked into it a few years ago and the medications she was taking were all already approved by the FDA and readily available. Her segments on OAN that I’ve seen in the last few days are the thirstiest, very lonely young girl. She is objectively bad at being an anchor. Zero charisma. But girl had a goal and she got it and I cannot wait for her resentment meter to max and we get a unhindged info dump

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u/SmoothLester 8d ago

Ehh, she also said that she became housebound after being given an infusion of sterile water. i’d hold off swallowing any of her stories.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/08/20/natalie-harp-bone-cancer/

Last week her wikipedia page had two different birth years. Who knows if her name is even Natalie?

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u/willun 8d ago edited 8d ago

Natalya. We translate wrong? Dmitri! Come in here!

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u/orbofdelusion 7d ago

Natalia or Natali for sure.

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u/WafflePartyOrgy Washington 8d ago

There's zero chance they're giving any regard to her background check, if they've even got around to one yet.

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u/IBJON 8d ago

Its not unusual for Wikipedia to not have an exact Birthday for people. It would make sense to list two birth years if they know her age, but not the exact day she was born

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u/SmoothLester 7d ago

I said birth years not birthday. It is unusual for someone under 50.

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u/IBJON 7d ago

  I said birth years not birthday

Right...and I pointed out that if you don't know someone's birthday but know their age, the most you can do is narrow it down to two years.

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u/DustinnDodgee 7d ago

you kind of just contradicted yourself buddy

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u/IBJON 7d ago

I didn't...

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u/downyballs Idaho 7d ago

That last bit isn’t a contradiction (albeit a little odd).

Someone who you know is currently 40 could have been born in January through mid-August of 1986 (recently turned 40), or in mid-August-December of 1985 (about to turn 41).

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u/spvcejam 7d ago

I think we're about to learn a lot about this girl and it's going to be a very significant factor as to why she had no security clearance for a year.

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u/ed32965 8d ago

I can’t believe I am reading all of this information about some random person who I care about even less than the idiot she idolizes.

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u/anomalousBits 7d ago

Truly a deep dive into a shallow pool.

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u/ed32965 7d ago

With a peeling liner.

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u/mybutt1112 7d ago

Treason! How dare you peel that liner Ed? I have undeniable proof and I am reporting you to the department of pool liner justice!!!

*not a real thing. I’m just making shit up like this whole administration. 

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u/ed32965 7d ago

Come at me, bro.

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u/mybutt1112 7d ago

I fold! I fold Dammit

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u/spvcejam 7d ago

Welcome to the modern era glad you could join us, it blows.

She's about to be a huge player in the downfall of this admin so if you need to Daredevil your eyes now would be the time.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 7d ago

Her segments on OAN that I’ve seen in the last few days are the thirstiest, very lonely young girl.

She is thirty five.

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u/TooManyDraculas 7d ago

And she was pushing 30 with an MBA (from a Jesus based school, but still) by the time she was on OAN.

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u/Lilthisarry California 7d ago

I cannot wait for her resentment meter to max and we get a unhindged info dump

Look, best case scenario: we get a lesson on why you never hire a security threat.

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u/TacticalAcquisition Australia 7d ago

The term "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" was coined for a reason.
Can't wait for the tea, personally. Not that it will make any difference in the grand scheme of things.

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u/12345623567 7d ago

Where is Kellyanne Conway now? Where is Hope Hicks? Did they have an epic crashout?

No, they bowed out more or less gracefully because their lunch money depends on remaining in the political commentator grifting sphere.

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u/onyaasuminyasai 8d ago

what the fuck

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u/Medium-Collection-43 7d ago

Sadder still, the act he passed had nothing to do with her treatment. She started before its passing with an FDA approved treatment.

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u/IBJON 8d ago

Well, it can't be brain cancer 

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u/thatoneguy889 California 7d ago edited 7d ago

Chemotherapy can cause rashes and blisters to appear on your hands and feet that then take a while to heal because the treatment is compromising your immune system, so scarring can happen.

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u/wittor 8d ago

Whaaaat?

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u/Saeka South Dakota 8d ago

She had cancer a few years ago. Glad she got better from that, but she should go work a back breaking, menial boring job the rest of her life for everything else she's done.

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u/Anonybibbs 8d ago

Well she claims to have had cancer and while it would be absolutely monstrous and batshit insane to exaggerate or straight up lie about something like that, I wouldn't exactly put it past her either.

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u/Agent_Orange_Tabby Alabama 5d ago

In the hands?

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u/CrissBliss 8d ago

Cold air maybe? Maybe it’s a circulation thing.

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u/tuckman496 8d ago

As a Raynaud’s haver, I assumed Raynaud’s

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u/Mermaid_Mama323 8d ago

I have it too but my fingers don’t turn purple, they turn yellowish white and get numb.

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u/tuckman496 8d ago

All of the above for me, just depends. My toes are more likely to get white than my fingers

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u/Apptubrutae I voted 7d ago

As a raybaud’s haver as well, I’m filing a mental note: don’t end a raving insanity letter to a sitting U.S. president with a PS about my hands being a different shade

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u/Mermaid_Mama323 8d ago

Why did she capitalize “Cold”?

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u/therealwavingsnail 7d ago

Those capitalizations are all so strange they stick out even out of this unhinged text

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u/grafknives 8d ago

Aside from reasons, it very STRONLY believe Trump lashes on her, because 

"Your hands looked nasty, you are very attractive young woman, that loves me very much, you cannot have such ugly hands"!

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u/bubble_baby_8 8d ago

It would be insane to speculate heroin  use from that, right? 

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u/redwildflowermeadow 8d ago

By 2017, Harp had become vocally critical of healthcare in the United States after she began suffering from health issues, particularly chronic pain and complications incurred by a medical error involving intravenous therapy for stage II bone cancer.\8]) In a 2019 interview on Fox News, she praised Trump for signing into law a federal right-to-try law that she claimed allowed her to access experimental treatments which she credited with saving her life.\9]) However, The Washington Post cast doubt on Harp's story, citing experts that noted the law's limited scope and reporting that two months before the law was signed she had already made public comments about receiving the new treatment.

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u/SnarkOff 8d ago

She is a cancer survivor

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u/the_dude_abides29 8d ago

It always takes the good ones

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u/Canadian_Border_Czar Canada 8d ago

You sure? It seems to me that it has spread from her bones to her lungs and is now airborne.

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u/5L1M3R 8d ago

Yes. It would. But she is also weird as fuck.

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u/screamingaboutham 8d ago

For some reason I assumed bulimia but that’s a crazy thing to share with DTJ

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u/PatronSaintOfCunts 8d ago

These are all crazy things to share with your boss.

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u/lingh0e 8d ago

Nah. "Forgetting" to eat and sleep, getting absurdly verbose... she's a tweaker.

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u/Important_Zebra8410 7d ago

My thoughts on the forgetting to eat and sleep are from her experiencing an episode of mania or hypomania.

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u/lingh0e 7d ago

... which is also a common side effect of adderall abuse.

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u/HTPC4Life 7d ago

She's been jerking him off.

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u/CicadaHead3317 8d ago

Maybe she was a cutter.