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0:00 Some stunning reporting here that shines a spotlight on the one person that this White House seems to want out of the spotlight. And this is probably why. So, according to MS now, President Donald Trump's closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, according to two people familiar with the matter. Both people said Harp's reasoning for declining to complete the process was unknown. After concerns mounted among the White House's counsel's office and security officials, the president himself intervened, and Harp in recent months filled out the forms to launch a formal federal background investigation and received the clearance, one of the people said. The lack of a security clearance is one of several red flags raised about Harp internally by Trump's top aides since he returned to the White House in January
0:45 2025. Harp operates unusually close to the president and filters much of the information Trump sees on a daily basis, and that proximity has spurred frustration inside the West Wing, according to those two people and other people granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal and sensitive dynamics. No clearance. Harp declined multiple separate times over the course of more than a year to even complete the routine clearance process that is standard for every West Wing staffer. And nobody, not even the people reporting the story, can tell you why. Consider, too, this is being reported as if it's a bureaucratic hiccup that she declined to seek clearance like she just kept forgetting to renew her driver's license. But a security clearance is not a suggestion. It's not a box that you check when you feel like it. It is a requirement for
1:31 working in proximity to classified information. And Natalie Harp doesn't just work in proximity to classified information, she is, by every account, glued to the president's side more than literally anyone else on his staff. Something that's come into particular focus over the last week. And somehow, for over a year, whether she got vetted to see classified material was treated as if it was her choice. That's not how this is supposed to work. Either you go through the background investigation and you're cleared to be there or you don't and you don't get to be 12 inches from the President of the United States during sensitive conversations. That's not some courtesy, that is the entire point of having a clearance system in the first place. And it's not like this was some minor lapse that got fixed quietly and quickly. According to reporting, Harper
2:18 received multiple extensions to complete the paperwork, the SF86 form, which requires disclosing background information as part of a formal federal investigation, and she only actually filled it out after concerns mounted inside the White House's Counsel's office and among security officials, at which point Trump himself had to personally intervene to get her to do it. Think about that chain of events. It wasn't like HR catching it. It wasn't routine audit catching it. It got bad enough for long enough that it had to escalate all the way to the President before someone who sits inches away from him during sensitive discussions finally filled out a form that every other staffer has to fill out as a matter of course. It's also worth asking what declined multiple times actually means in practice. This isn't a story about
3:03 somebody who missed a deadline once. This is someone who was repeatedly asked, repeatedly given the opportunity, and repeatedly said no for reasons that nobody inside the White House will explain and reasons that reporting itself says remain unknown. That's not an oversight, it is a pattern of active refusal sustained for over a year inside the West Wing with access to the President him- himself. If you're struggling to come up with some innocent explanation for that, join the club because apparently so is everyone actually reporting on this story. And here's another detail that's damning for Natalie Harp. This isn't even the first red flag raised internally about her. Reporting indicates that the clearance issue is just one of several concerns that other senior aides have raised about her since Trump returned to office and that some staff reportedly made
3:50 what's described as subtle moves to limit her access to the president. Moves that apparently didn't work because she is, in the words of one source, simply persistent. So, you've got a White House where career staff are quietly trying to contain the access of a woman who spent over a year without clearance, and their efforts are failing. And the person with the actual authority to fix it, meaning Donald Trump, only stepped in once the problem became too glaring to ignore. So, naturally, this raises the question, can you imagine the reaction on the right if this was a Democratic White House? Like, we don't even have to imagine it, actually, because we already ran this exact experiment. Remember Hillary Clinton's emails? An entire presidential campaign, arguably arguably the entire outcome of the 2016 election, got shaped around the question of
4:36 whether Hillary Clinton's private email server represented a national security risk. Sean Spicer, James Comey's testimony, the whole "But her emails" chant that we heard every day, Trump literally leading his crowd to say "Lock her up" over the server that the FBI investigated and found no criminal charges were warranted for? That was the standard. That was how seriously Republicans claimed that they wanted us to believe that they took the handling of classified information anywhere near a place of power. And yet, now here we are with a woman who for over a year was in near constant physical proximity to the president of the United States. Present for conversations that most senior officials would need a clearance just to be in the room for. And she didn't even have a basic security clearance. Where's the outrage? Where are
5:21 Republican members of Congress demanding hearings? Where's Jim Jordan? Where's the Fox News Chiron running 24 hours a day? It doesn't exist because the accountability in this country isn't actually about national security. It's about who's wearing the jersey. When it's a Democrat, an email server becomes an existential threat to the republic. But when it's Trump's own executive assistant skipping a mandatory background check for over a year, well, then it's just a scoop that gets a little bit of time in the news and then vanishes. And by the way, this is not some low-level staffer we're talking about. This is a woman that lawmakers themselves have described as critical to Trump's entire operation. Someone who's been called his quote extra set of ears and eyes. She's not filling paperwork out in a back office somewhere. She is,
6:07 by nearly every account, the most consistently present person in Trump's orbit. Literally serving as his mouthpiece as evidenced by clips like this. >> Oh, too many. Thank you. >> It's about 20. >> I think it must be 35. >> Is she nervous? >> traveling from India to California with an unshakable dream to be the scientist >> How many people are watching? >> Can we tell how many, Dan? How many people are watching? >> She's talking about how great San Francisco was before she destroyed it. A lot of talk about childhood. We've got to get to the border, inflation, and crime. >> He's not proposing a single policy, not one policy proposal he's saying. >> Harris's biography won't lower your prices at the grocery store. >> Or at the pump.
6:53 >> Out there putting veterans out on the street so >> 33,000 homeless veterans. >> Can I tell you a case say Cynthia's the things of which she complains, things of which she of which she complains. >> In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. >> Oh. >> All of which makes the idea that clearance was optional for her not just a security failure, but an admission that this White House has decided that some people are simply too close to the president to be subjected to the same rules as everybody else. That isn't a loophole, it is a two-tiered system operating in the most sensitive building in the entire country. So, it's almost like Jon Ossoff was justified when he said this. >> While he fruitlessly drains our
7:39 munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar. >> So, look, I don't know what's in Natalie Harp's background that might explain a year plus of refusing to complete a standard background check. Maybe it's nothing, but that's not really the point. The point is that we're not supposed to be operating on trust when it comes to who has access to the president and the sensitive information that surrounds him. We built an entire system specifically so it wouldn't come down to this idea that, "Well, Trump
8:24 trusts her, so it's fine." And if you spent 2016 through 2024 convinced that email security was a five-alarm fire when it came to national security, then I would genuinely love to hear how you explain away the fact that this barely makes a ripple. But, per usual, I won't hold my breath. >> [music] >> Before you go, one quick request. It's become clear to me that this White House is dead set on preventing me from reaching any audience. Trump's decision to put me as the first name on his enemies list is a testament to that. But, it didn't quiet down then, and I won't do it now. So, please do me a favor and subscribe to this channel, hit the notification bell to be alerted when I post new content, and tune in when I publish videos so that they get picked up in the algorithm. The link to subscribe is right here on the screen.
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