Trump aide's estranged brother reveals dark family 'secret' he refused to keep

Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump's 34-year-old executive assistant whose closeness to the president unsettled the White House, was revealed Thursday to have become estranged from multiple family members after proposing to lie about her father's death, her "secret brother" told the Daily Mail.

“She doesn't call me. I've accepted that's the way it is,” Harp’s paternal grandmother, Dolores ‘Dee Dee’ Harp, told the Daily Mail, speaking of her granddaughter, who was described as Trump's "right-hand woman."

Harp’s father died in 2020 in what was ruled a suicide by an Orange County coroner in California, but according to Preston Harp, her 38-year-old estranged brother, she and her mother “wanted to say that he died in his sleep.” Mr. Harp, however, told the outlet he “can’t keep that kind of a secret” and ultimately informed his extended family of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death.

“Other family members contacted by the Daily Mail admitted there was a family fallout over Robert's suicide and the fact that there was no funeral, just a private cremation,” the Daily Mail’s report reads. “Carolyn Creutzer, a cousin, said Harp has blocked her on social media.”

Mr. Harp, who lives in Nicaragua and is a fierce Trump critic, said he’d also become estranged from his sister, though in large part due to her closeness with the president.

“It just kind of caused some cognitive dissonance,” Mr. Harp told the Daily Mail. “I don't understand why my sister, or anyone, could want to work for Trump. It's hard to believe that's my sister and my mom. I can't connect with that vibe, so I'm just going to let it be.”