Aug. 18, 2026
Senator Stirs Up Controversy Surrounding Trump And His 35-Year-Old Blonde Executive Assistant
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RSS Feed Georgia democrat Jon Ossoff made a comment that has set off a political firestorm, publicly mocking President Trump’s relationship with his executive assistant, Natalie Harp. Ossoff insinuated there was an inappropriate closeness between Harp and Trump, and his comments came on the heels of a new book by New York Times reporters who quoted sources saying Trump believes Harp loves him as much as his wife and kids. When CNN reporter Kristen Holmes asked Trump about Ossoff’s comments, it created another layer to the controversy, with Trump and administration officials publicly eviscerating the journalist as a “disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment.”
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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Tuesday, August eighteenth, and one Georgia senator has gone and stepped in it. He has just mentioned go wrong, Trump aid. Why was she the wrong one to mention? Well? It comes with some other insinuations, shall we say? And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. John Ausso Democrat from Georgia, robes fair to say. This is a viral comment he made at his speech.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, the term travel with Natalie literally became viral, folks reposting the remarks by Congressman Ossoff where he was publicly mocking a what he calls way too close relationship with an aid of President Trump.
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Speaker 1: She used that he's way too close.
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Speaker 2: Well, he didn't use that, but that's what he's insinuating. Basically, wherever Trump goes, you will find and you will see a woman named Natalie Harp, thirty five years old, a former.
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Speaker 3: Right wing one American news network host.
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Speaker 2: And look, I'd not noticed it, but I guess apparently several people have.
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Speaker 3: Pretty much everywhere you see Trump, you see Natalie.
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Speaker 1: Now. She has been talked about quite a bit as of late recent weeks and months even and I guess she was tied a lot Robes too. And again I always say it, you and I look at his truth social posts more than most and some of the major ones that make headlines or one thing. But he is putting up posts constantly, sometimes one hundred and a night in particular on weekend, and awfully and scendiary a lot of them, and people like, how is he doing this? She became, I guess, Robes publicly attached to a lot of those comments. By by some reports, she was like giving him options like these, there some options for things you could send out, or he was right there telling her exactly what to put out. So her name has been attached to him in their close relationship a lot here as of Lake.
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Speaker 3: Yes, her name.
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Speaker 2: Actually, she has a nickname apparently among White House staffers. She's called the human printer because she literally carries around with her a portable printer so she can print out news articles social media posts that Trump might want to refer to or use. And yes, she is, according to folks, the final eye to many of those incendiary social media posts that we see pop up. That she is behind a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of incredible as a thirty five year old woman who was right there with the president. Like what I mean, what a story she's going to have to tell one day. It's just incredible that part of it, No matter what you think about any of it, is just remarkable that she has this kind of access.
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Speaker 2: And look a lot of people are pointing to the fact that she was with President Trump when he sneaked into that catering truck on off of Air Force One onto that military jet, leaving behind Marco Rubio and all the White House press staff.
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Speaker 1: She was more important.
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Speaker 2: She was more important than Marco Rubio. People were pointing out that she sneaked into that truck with him and then got onto that military jet with him. She was also over the weekend with him in New Jersey. Basically, she's his near constant companion. Was how one person put it again.
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Speaker 1: I think they used to call it a body man that a president has. He has all kinds of assistants in chief of stash and this and that, but there's one person attached to presidents that are no. I can see the guy the brother that the playball at Duke that Obama had. I can't remember that, Reggie anyway. I can't come up with you Wing woman they have them, so she seems to be just filling that role. Why is this different?
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Speaker 2: So yes, And it's interesting because what you described was more physical security, right that you see someone who is always constantly by the president's side, someone who they look to for lots of things.
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Speaker 1: But go ahead, Oh not secure, No, No, like just your guy who just run who's the the not so official helper, right, that person who is like your personal set the assistant. You would call this a personal assistant if it was a secretary that if it was a celebrity. I mean that just runs around right next to him. Anything you might need, that person does it. So yeah, this has nothing to do with the security anything. It's just that grunt.
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Speaker 3: Do you know what I just came to mind.
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Speaker 2: If anyone has watched VEEP with Selena Meyer, is the is the vice president?
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Speaker 3: It's her Gary.
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Speaker 2: He whispers in her ear anytime someone comes up and she doesn't know who they are, He'll be like, that's the the you know, the Commerce secretary or whatever. Like he's always telling her names whose wives are there, and he's hilariously her beck and call from getting her coffee to letting her know the new codes.
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Speaker 3: I mean he's the guy.
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Speaker 1: And I assume there are a lot of people also who listening, who watched West Wing at some point. The person there was Doulay Hill, the actor, the black guy who was followed around Martin Sheen's character President. Yet that thing, this, it sounds to me that this is what she is to him.
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Speaker 2: Fine, so maybe a logistics kind of a person, a person who's got your back, a person who's got the information you need when you need it, and if they don't have it, they'll get it for you as quickly as possible. However, The New York Times two reporters, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan just put out a new book called Regime Change, and in that book they talk about Natalie Harp, and instead of maybe being his logistics girl or his go to girl, they actually claim that she's his emotional security blanket. Basically, they say that, according to their sources, Trump told his team, when describing Natalie Harp, that she was quote the only one who loved him as much as his wife and kids, and that she would leave him gushing letters in private spaces that read things like you were all that matters to me? And yes, she went on the reporter who wrote the book. Haberman went on MS Now this weekend and said she's sort of his binkie, for lack of a better way of putting it, his comfort blanket. So you add what Haberman said to what Asuff said, and now people are going crazy with this Natalie Harp story.
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Speaker 1: I forgot about Haberman. She is the one that really got this thing going with that book several weeks ago. And yeah, I guess Robes there were some of those things that came out. That quote about loving him as much as his wife and kids. It sounded a little creepy to people because this is an eighty year old man. She's a thirty five year old woman. Okay, you should be able to say, so what. I don't know what else. It's just Robes. There's just people like the breadcrumbs, people like jumping to a conclusion based on what she looks like, what his history has been, and what some of these quotes have crout. And frankly, there's maybe absolutely nothing wrong, nothing untoward, and it's even wrong to suggest such a thing. But this thing is going.
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Speaker 2: Now, yes it is going, and it's probably going to be impossible to stop and look I've seen plenty of pictures, and there are pictures with her, and Milania is there as well, and the President as they're all going to different locations. But there are plenty of pictures that people have captured, photographers have captured of her looking adoringly at President Trump, almost in like you know, the movie obsession, almost in that kind of way where they've got these she's got these big smiles and she's just staring at him so lovingly.
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Speaker 3: So people are definitely taking that and running with it.
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Speaker 1: But I push on one. Yes, absolutely, they're countless photos of countless people looking adoringly at the President. Absolutely, just not focused on those. So I'm saying we're now plucking.
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Speaker 3: Any little piece absolutely and.
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Speaker 1: Applying it to a narrative that some people want to run with.
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Speaker 2: You. Yes, let's get into what John Ossif said on the rally, just to get this really put things or I guess it just created a bigger ground swell of attention on this particular woman. So he said this at a rally speech. While the sailors on the Lincoln fight this war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oiler reserves. The president sleeps through meetings, he golfs and trade stocks. 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 ere Cutter. So he just said flying with Natalie. He didn't say her last name, and he just basically kind of sneaked that into a campaign or a rally speed and it did not go unnoticed.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not sure to stop here or not didn't go unnoticed. Yes, the president was asked about it, and his people have come out firing at ass off. Yes, so yeah, okay, let's get through that first and then I'll go back to Osso.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go back to the president getting upset about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I want to break down the Senator because you said he kind of just was able to sneak something in it. He did. I don't think he was able to sneak He didn't sneak it in go through his he dropped a bomb. Stop start at the top again with his Uh, just keep going and you're gonna laugh now. They start at the top.
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Speaker 3: While the sailors on the Lincoln fight this war.
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Speaker 1: One thing right there. Trending headline story of the past week has been what what's happening to them? On the USS? Abraham Lincoln right correct?
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Speaker 2: Keep going while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves.
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Speaker 1: All the major headline the past week us severely behind them munitions. The President goes off on heck seth about it at a cabinet meeting. Another significant viral headline over the past week. Keep going.
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Speaker 3: The President sleeps through meetings.
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Speaker 1: Cabinet meeting? What is he known for? He was in the Oval Office several days ago, once again trending that he's falling asleep while people were talking around him. That was just a few days ago. Keep going. You see where I'm going.
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Speaker 3: He gulfs in trade stocks.
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Speaker 1: There you go. What has happened recently? The crypto currency? How his family's been benefiting. He's constantly posting about himself playing golf, and he gets criticized anytime he does it. Keep going.
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Speaker 2: 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 emer.
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Speaker 1: Of cutter ballroom and plane trending topics in headlines. All OSUF is doing Robes. It's almost embarrassing. He's just plucking out trending headlines and put together in one sentence that the media and the public is gonna eat up.
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Speaker 2: Right, But for a lot of us, and I'll admit I'm among them, I was not aware of this Natalie Harp situation, so that with all of those other yes trending topics, everyone knew what he was referring to.
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Speaker 3: But because all of a sudden he just puts.
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Speaker 2: In her first name, Natalie, people are like, Natalie, who's Natalie?
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Speaker 1: This dude that was by design? He is oh, absolutely for this, and they say he does it actually well and is able to stay on message. It jumped out at me, Robes that he literally and we deal a lot in in online clickable stuff and writing headlines that people would like and things like that. Robes, he hit every single trending headline about this president over the past three months.
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Speaker 3: Every negative trending hit, every single one of them.
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Speaker 1: Yes he is.
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Speaker 2: And then when he was called not called the task but questioned about why why would he do this, why would he bring up her name? This is what he had to say on MS Now with Jen Saki. He said, well, I've heard this particular aid referred to as his security blanket, and I think we could say that about a number of the senior aids in the White House. They're not telling him what he needs to hear. They're telling him what he wants to hear. So then he kind of just grouped her into Oh, yeah, she's just one of several aids who doesn't actually tell the president what he needs to hear.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that was Was he able to cover himself there?
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Speaker 2: No, we all know what he was doing, and we all know what he was insinuating that this is a potentially problematic problematic might be or I would even go so far as to say an appropriate relationship that he may have with this woman. And by the way, just in terms of Natalie Harp and who she is, I didn't know this part about her. Yes, we mentioned she was once on one American news network, but she has been with the president since twenty nineteen, when she began to praise him because he signed legislation apparently that allowed her to have experimental bone cancer treatment. So you could look at that and say, this young woman feels like she owes her life to President Trump. He saved her life. He signed into law treatment that gave her an opportunity to beat cancer. So then in twenty twenty she spoke at the RNC. Then she worked at the Trump on the Trump's campaign in twenty twenty four, and then yes became his executive assistant and she has been by his side pretty much ever since.
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Speaker 3: And that is where we are now.
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Speaker 2: Now, the story doesn't end there because things got really heated explosive, both in the Oval Office and online. Wait until you hear Trump's reaction to all of this and what the Rapid Response Team and Stephen Chung had to say on x Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. So obviously it was just going to be a matter of time before President Trump was asked about John Ossoff's comments, And it happened in the Oval Office while the President was hailing a sixteen year old lifeguard a hero for saving the life of a ten year old boy. So he allowed some questions from the press that had gathered there in the Oval Office afterwards, and CNN's Kristin Holmes decided to ask about Asoff's comments regarding Harp.
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Speaker 1: No relation, but I'm a fan, I'm a Christen Holmes, fan, I do like that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you've always said you thought she is a phenomenal White House correspondent. It's a difficult job, especially these days. So she asks about a reaction to John Ossoff's comments about him and his executive assistant. And here's what he had to say. Someday your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. You're a loud, boisterous person.
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Speaker 3: You're fake news. Be quiet.
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Speaker 2: She keeps asking her a question, and he just starts saying, be quiet, be quiet, be quiet. The only part of her question that he answered was you mean pee wee Herman, because that's his nickname for John Ossef. He defended his ballroom construction, did not acknowledge or mention Harp, but just went and took Kristen Holmes to task.
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Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, I he tried to get the boy involved at one point, right the kid was sitting right next to him, a sixteen year old kid, and he's yelling at the reporter and tried to get him to agree. That isn't she rude. It's something he said to her. I wish he would stop taking reporter questions while he hasn't guessed.
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Speaker 2: It's awkward, and that's just a very mild way to put it.
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Speaker 1: It was uncomfortable, it was But the will this get addressed? Will there be a follow up? Does there need to be a follow up? Ropes? I really do not know if the White House needs to say more, and then to a certain degree, I wish they would say less, especially this dude here. I don't know where they're getting Chung right.
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Speaker 3: Chung is unreal.
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the Rapid Response forty seven, is Chung responsible for that? Because he went on his personal and it seems like he would have something to do with what Rapid Response forty seven decided to go straight onto X and.
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Speaker 3: Put this out there.
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Speaker 2: Kristin HCNN is a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession. Potis hosts a hero lifeguard in the Oval office, and she uses it as an opportunity to take a cheap shot about one of President Trump's staffers. These scumbags are the lowest of the low. And then Stephen Chung went after John saying John Jackoff, I mean this is crazy.
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Speaker 3: We're name calling from the White House.
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Speaker 1: What's his official title? That Chung is something communications officer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he yes, he is, like the official White House spokesperson, John, just wait till you hear this language. John Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. This is how we're speaking about one another. This is a direct communication from the White House to the American people. I'm gonna read that first sentence again. John Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. Instead of denigrating hardworking people serving their country, John should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he's a miserable person who hates this country. It's because he's a radical extremist Democrat. At what point can we just say we are offended by any insinuation that the president hard working staff is anything but professional. She is there by his side as one is expected to do to serve the highest office in this country. Like, can't we show some decorum coming from the top down. It's just when someone they feel goes low, they go subterranean, they go as low as a human can go.
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Speaker 3: And that's coming from our White House.
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Speaker 1: Rose. While I think back to I go back to Charlie Kirk. I think about the the shooting at the softball game, right the charity softball game with them. They even go back to nine to eleven. I go back to these times robes, whether these political tragedies. It takes somebody dying almost before the two sides will actually say, you know what, it's really crappy, how we've been treating each other and we should do better. And that usually lasts one forty eight hours, and then we go right back to this robes. There's no way after the death of Charlie Kirk, we should be talking to each other like this again, that's just not possible. We just should not. This is disgusting behavior that we accept that some people look at who are in that camp and they go, yeah, get them, like yes, that's that's, that's what it is. And it's funny to hear the president call this guy Pete b Herman like that's and did you see how you see how awkward it was in the room when he said it so awkward but he laughed. It was. It was a bad moment even it's.
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Speaker 2: What we kids were in the room, a ten year old boy who had just survived drowning. If not for the heroics of a teenager, they were all there around the president, and yes, you know what he could have done gone higher. And if he wanted to call out Kristen Holmes for asking a question like that, he could have done it in a way where she would have looked awful for bringing something up like that in the presence of young folks.
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Speaker 1: What questions was she supposed to ask? Not about the news of the day. And she was respectful in what she was asking. She was to what he said. She didn't put it in her own context. She didn't she.
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Speaker 3: Didn't reiterate or repeat what osof said.
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Speaker 2: She asked for a response, and it turned into what it did because of the official White House response, You may you make a rose.
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Speaker 1: Why is it a ten year old and a sixteen year old were the bigger adults in the room that included the president. They know not to behave that way. They've been taught not to behave that way. It was another, I guess, typical moment. But it was a tough It was another tough moment. But Rhoades, I will and must be said, I think absolutely, Senator osov owes that young woman an apology. You absolutely I think that was wrong.
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Speaker 3: I agree with you.
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Speaker 1: This is nine and people are going to say, well, the president shouldn't be upset. He says worse things than Osoff has ever said. That is true, That is not the point. Do not compare the two men, but speak how he has now put out there into the world a suggestion that this woman is involved in some way inappropriate. He knew what he was doing. I will firmly believe that.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I absolutely believe that she was doing.
00:21:10
Speaker 1: Denied it, but he hasn't confirmed that. Yeah, it was a strategy point still being that part to do that to that woman, I think does that? Did that part cross the line?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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Speaker 2: And she was and is being used once again as a political pawn. No one cares what her life is like, what her family feels like. And this, I believe, is a woman who has survived bone cancer. She is looking to the president as someone who saved her life, and she feels in debt to him, and that, as far as we know, is the extent of her loyalty to him, and that she appreciated. I mean, she obviously agrees with his politics, she obviously supports what he's doing, and whether you like how she presents that on social media alongside him or not, is a whole other thing. It doesn't mean that you get to just insinuate that there's something untoward going on between eighty year old President Trump and thirty five year old Natalie Hart.
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Speaker 1: You o want somebody want to present evidence or make a direct accusation to Okay, and that would be wrong, but to she shouldn't have to answer the question, and he shouldn't have to answer it either. Just making these suggestions. Now, this thing is going to get going in such a way. And you have a US senator who is being talked about as a presidential candidate at US Center from a very influential state, a US center, who's up for a very important reelection campaign, he's high profile, just kind of slide that kind of in there. I don't think that was cool. I don't think that was cool.
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Speaker 2: It's not, But then how it was received brought it to a whole new level of just absolute ugliness. I feel like we're now at a point, well not we've been here for a while. Our lawmakers from the top down are behaving worse than anything I ever saw on a schoolyard.
00:22:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, because at least on the school, well schoolyard, you're I guess you at least have some fear that your teacher or your parents might hold you accountable. This is the wild West of schoolyards. Who's gonna hold anybody accountable? Who's gonna hold them to the standard? Us? The voters will vote them out? Okay.
00:23:16
Speaker 2: The sad thing is these lawmakers and our president and his staff are behaving exactly in a certain way based on what they know will bring people to the polls. So I think we're all responsible, Yes we.
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Speaker 1: Are, It just doesn't I'm thinking about one congress person in particular, ropes. It just seems even when you have hope, when they come in, bright eyed, bushytail, and this was going to be different, and then then a few years lady go damn, we lost that one too.
00:23:47
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it seems as if this is how the game is played, and if you don't play dirty, you lose. But my god, we can all hope for a better day one day, but this story looks like it is far from over. Will affore stay on top of it. We always appreciate you listening to us, every one. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside DJ Holmes. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Tuesday, August eighteenth, and one Georgia senator has gone and stepped in it. He has just mentioned go wrong, Trump aid. Why was she the wrong one to mention? Well? It comes with some other insinuations, shall we say? And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. John Ausso Democrat from Georgia, robes fair to say. This is a viral comment he made at his speech.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, the term travel with Natalie literally became viral, folks reposting the remarks by Congressman Ossoff where he was publicly mocking a what he calls way too close relationship with an aid of President Trump.
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Speaker 1: She used that he's way too close.
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Speaker 2: Well, he didn't use that, but that's what he's insinuating. Basically, wherever Trump goes, you will find and you will see a woman named Natalie Harp, thirty five years old, a former.
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Speaker 3: Right wing one American news network host.
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Speaker 2: And look, I'd not noticed it, but I guess apparently several people have.
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Speaker 3: Pretty much everywhere you see Trump, you see Natalie.
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Speaker 1: Now. She has been talked about quite a bit as of late recent weeks and months even and I guess she was tied a lot Robes too. And again I always say it, you and I look at his truth social posts more than most and some of the major ones that make headlines or one thing. But he is putting up posts constantly, sometimes one hundred and a night in particular on weekend, and awfully and scendiary a lot of them, and people like, how is he doing this? She became, I guess, Robes publicly attached to a lot of those comments. By by some reports, she was like giving him options like these, there some options for things you could send out, or he was right there telling her exactly what to put out. So her name has been attached to him in their close relationship a lot here as of Lake.
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Speaker 3: Yes, her name.
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Speaker 2: Actually, she has a nickname apparently among White House staffers. She's called the human printer because she literally carries around with her a portable printer so she can print out news articles social media posts that Trump might want to refer to or use. And yes, she is, according to folks, the final eye to many of those incendiary social media posts that we see pop up. That she is behind a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of incredible as a thirty five year old woman who was right there with the president. Like what I mean, what a story she's going to have to tell one day. It's just incredible that part of it, No matter what you think about any of it, is just remarkable that she has this kind of access.
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Speaker 2: And look a lot of people are pointing to the fact that she was with President Trump when he sneaked into that catering truck on off of Air Force One onto that military jet, leaving behind Marco Rubio and all the White House press staff.
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Speaker 1: She was more important.
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Speaker 2: She was more important than Marco Rubio. People were pointing out that she sneaked into that truck with him and then got onto that military jet with him. She was also over the weekend with him in New Jersey. Basically, she's his near constant companion. Was how one person put it again.
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Speaker 1: I think they used to call it a body man that a president has. He has all kinds of assistants in chief of stash and this and that, but there's one person attached to presidents that are no. I can see the guy the brother that the playball at Duke that Obama had. I can't remember that, Reggie anyway. I can't come up with you Wing woman they have them, so she seems to be just filling that role. Why is this different?
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Speaker 2: So yes, And it's interesting because what you described was more physical security, right that you see someone who is always constantly by the president's side, someone who they look to for lots of things.
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Speaker 1: But go ahead, Oh not secure, No, No, like just your guy who just run who's the the not so official helper, right, that person who is like your personal set the assistant. You would call this a personal assistant if it was a secretary that if it was a celebrity. I mean that just runs around right next to him. Anything you might need, that person does it. So yeah, this has nothing to do with the security anything. It's just that grunt.
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Speaker 3: Do you know what I just came to mind.
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Speaker 2: If anyone has watched VEEP with Selena Meyer, is the is the vice president?
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Speaker 3: It's her Gary.
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Speaker 2: He whispers in her ear anytime someone comes up and she doesn't know who they are, He'll be like, that's the the you know, the Commerce secretary or whatever. Like he's always telling her names whose wives are there, and he's hilariously her beck and call from getting her coffee to letting her know the new codes.
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Speaker 3: I mean he's the guy.
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Speaker 1: And I assume there are a lot of people also who listening, who watched West Wing at some point. The person there was Doulay Hill, the actor, the black guy who was followed around Martin Sheen's character President. Yet that thing, this, it sounds to me that this is what she is to him.
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Speaker 2: Fine, so maybe a logistics kind of a person, a person who's got your back, a person who's got the information you need when you need it, and if they don't have it, they'll get it for you as quickly as possible. However, The New York Times two reporters, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan just put out a new book called Regime Change, and in that book they talk about Natalie Harp, and instead of maybe being his logistics girl or his go to girl, they actually claim that she's his emotional security blanket. Basically, they say that, according to their sources, Trump told his team, when describing Natalie Harp, that she was quote the only one who loved him as much as his wife and kids, and that she would leave him gushing letters in private spaces that read things like you were all that matters to me? And yes, she went on the reporter who wrote the book. Haberman went on MS Now this weekend and said she's sort of his binkie, for lack of a better way of putting it, his comfort blanket. So you add what Haberman said to what Asuff said, and now people are going crazy with this Natalie Harp story.
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Speaker 1: I forgot about Haberman. She is the one that really got this thing going with that book several weeks ago. And yeah, I guess Robes there were some of those things that came out. That quote about loving him as much as his wife and kids. It sounded a little creepy to people because this is an eighty year old man. She's a thirty five year old woman. Okay, you should be able to say, so what. I don't know what else. It's just Robes. There's just people like the breadcrumbs, people like jumping to a conclusion based on what she looks like, what his history has been, and what some of these quotes have crout. And frankly, there's maybe absolutely nothing wrong, nothing untoward, and it's even wrong to suggest such a thing. But this thing is going.
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Speaker 2: Now, yes it is going, and it's probably going to be impossible to stop and look I've seen plenty of pictures, and there are pictures with her, and Milania is there as well, and the President as they're all going to different locations. But there are plenty of pictures that people have captured, photographers have captured of her looking adoringly at President Trump, almost in like you know, the movie obsession, almost in that kind of way where they've got these she's got these big smiles and she's just staring at him so lovingly.
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Speaker 3: So people are definitely taking that and running with it.
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Speaker 1: But I push on one. Yes, absolutely, they're countless photos of countless people looking adoringly at the President. Absolutely, just not focused on those. So I'm saying we're now plucking.
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Speaker 3: Any little piece absolutely and.
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Speaker 1: Applying it to a narrative that some people want to run with.
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Speaker 2: You. Yes, let's get into what John Ossif said on the rally, just to get this really put things or I guess it just created a bigger ground swell of attention on this particular woman. So he said this at a rally speech. While the sailors on the Lincoln fight this war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oiler reserves. The president sleeps through meetings, he golfs and trade stocks. 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 ere Cutter. So he just said flying with Natalie. He didn't say her last name, and he just basically kind of sneaked that into a campaign or a rally speed and it did not go unnoticed.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not sure to stop here or not didn't go unnoticed. Yes, the president was asked about it, and his people have come out firing at ass off. Yes, so yeah, okay, let's get through that first and then I'll go back to Osso.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go back to the president getting upset about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I want to break down the Senator because you said he kind of just was able to sneak something in it. He did. I don't think he was able to sneak He didn't sneak it in go through his he dropped a bomb. Stop start at the top again with his Uh, just keep going and you're gonna laugh now. They start at the top.
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Speaker 3: While the sailors on the Lincoln fight this war.
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Speaker 1: One thing right there. Trending headline story of the past week has been what what's happening to them? On the USS? Abraham Lincoln right correct?
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Speaker 2: Keep going while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves.
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Speaker 1: All the major headline the past week us severely behind them munitions. The President goes off on heck seth about it at a cabinet meeting. Another significant viral headline over the past week. Keep going.
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Speaker 3: The President sleeps through meetings.
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Speaker 1: Cabinet meeting? What is he known for? He was in the Oval Office several days ago, once again trending that he's falling asleep while people were talking around him. That was just a few days ago. Keep going. You see where I'm going.
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Speaker 3: He gulfs in trade stocks.
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Speaker 1: There you go. What has happened recently? The crypto currency? How his family's been benefiting. He's constantly posting about himself playing golf, and he gets criticized anytime he does it. Keep going.
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Speaker 2: 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 emer.
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Speaker 1: Of cutter ballroom and plane trending topics in headlines. All OSUF is doing Robes. It's almost embarrassing. He's just plucking out trending headlines and put together in one sentence that the media and the public is gonna eat up.
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Speaker 2: Right, But for a lot of us, and I'll admit I'm among them, I was not aware of this Natalie Harp situation, so that with all of those other yes trending topics, everyone knew what he was referring to.
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Speaker 3: But because all of a sudden he just puts.
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Speaker 2: In her first name, Natalie, people are like, Natalie, who's Natalie?
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Speaker 1: This dude that was by design? He is oh, absolutely for this, and they say he does it actually well and is able to stay on message. It jumped out at me, Robes that he literally and we deal a lot in in online clickable stuff and writing headlines that people would like and things like that. Robes, he hit every single trending headline about this president over the past three months.
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Speaker 3: Every negative trending hit, every single one of them.
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Speaker 1: Yes he is.
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Speaker 2: And then when he was called not called the task but questioned about why why would he do this, why would he bring up her name? This is what he had to say on MS Now with Jen Saki. He said, well, I've heard this particular aid referred to as his security blanket, and I think we could say that about a number of the senior aids in the White House. They're not telling him what he needs to hear. They're telling him what he wants to hear. So then he kind of just grouped her into Oh, yeah, she's just one of several aids who doesn't actually tell the president what he needs to hear.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that was Was he able to cover himself there?
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Speaker 2: No, we all know what he was doing, and we all know what he was insinuating that this is a potentially problematic problematic might be or I would even go so far as to say an appropriate relationship that he may have with this woman. And by the way, just in terms of Natalie Harp and who she is, I didn't know this part about her. Yes, we mentioned she was once on one American news network, but she has been with the president since twenty nineteen, when she began to praise him because he signed legislation apparently that allowed her to have experimental bone cancer treatment. So you could look at that and say, this young woman feels like she owes her life to President Trump. He saved her life. He signed into law treatment that gave her an opportunity to beat cancer. So then in twenty twenty she spoke at the RNC. Then she worked at the Trump on the Trump's campaign in twenty twenty four, and then yes became his executive assistant and she has been by his side pretty much ever since.
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Speaker 3: And that is where we are now.
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Speaker 2: Now, the story doesn't end there because things got really heated explosive, both in the Oval Office and online. Wait until you hear Trump's reaction to all of this and what the Rapid Response Team and Stephen Chung had to say on x Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. So obviously it was just going to be a matter of time before President Trump was asked about John Ossoff's comments, And it happened in the Oval Office while the President was hailing a sixteen year old lifeguard a hero for saving the life of a ten year old boy. So he allowed some questions from the press that had gathered there in the Oval Office afterwards, and CNN's Kristin Holmes decided to ask about Asoff's comments regarding Harp.
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Speaker 1: No relation, but I'm a fan, I'm a Christen Holmes, fan, I do like that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you've always said you thought she is a phenomenal White House correspondent. It's a difficult job, especially these days. So she asks about a reaction to John Ossoff's comments about him and his executive assistant. And here's what he had to say. Someday your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. You're a loud, boisterous person.
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Speaker 3: You're fake news. Be quiet.
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Speaker 2: She keeps asking her a question, and he just starts saying, be quiet, be quiet, be quiet. The only part of her question that he answered was you mean pee wee Herman, because that's his nickname for John Ossef. He defended his ballroom construction, did not acknowledge or mention Harp, but just went and took Kristen Holmes to task.
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Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, I he tried to get the boy involved at one point, right the kid was sitting right next to him, a sixteen year old kid, and he's yelling at the reporter and tried to get him to agree. That isn't she rude. It's something he said to her. I wish he would stop taking reporter questions while he hasn't guessed.
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Speaker 2: It's awkward, and that's just a very mild way to put it.
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Speaker 1: It was uncomfortable, it was But the will this get addressed? Will there be a follow up? Does there need to be a follow up? Ropes? I really do not know if the White House needs to say more, and then to a certain degree, I wish they would say less, especially this dude here. I don't know where they're getting Chung right.
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Speaker 3: Chung is unreal.
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the Rapid Response forty seven, is Chung responsible for that? Because he went on his personal and it seems like he would have something to do with what Rapid Response forty seven decided to go straight onto X and.
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Speaker 3: Put this out there.
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Speaker 2: Kristin HCNN is a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession. Potis hosts a hero lifeguard in the Oval office, and she uses it as an opportunity to take a cheap shot about one of President Trump's staffers. These scumbags are the lowest of the low. And then Stephen Chung went after John saying John Jackoff, I mean this is crazy.
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Speaker 3: We're name calling from the White House.
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Speaker 1: What's his official title? That Chung is something communications officer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he yes, he is, like the official White House spokesperson, John, just wait till you hear this language. John Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. This is how we're speaking about one another. This is a direct communication from the White House to the American people. I'm gonna read that first sentence again. John Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. Instead of denigrating hardworking people serving their country, John should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he's a miserable person who hates this country. It's because he's a radical extremist Democrat. At what point can we just say we are offended by any insinuation that the president hard working staff is anything but professional. She is there by his side as one is expected to do to serve the highest office in this country. Like, can't we show some decorum coming from the top down. It's just when someone they feel goes low, they go subterranean, they go as low as a human can go.
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Speaker 3: And that's coming from our White House.
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Speaker 1: Rose. While I think back to I go back to Charlie Kirk. I think about the the shooting at the softball game, right the charity softball game with them. They even go back to nine to eleven. I go back to these times robes, whether these political tragedies. It takes somebody dying almost before the two sides will actually say, you know what, it's really crappy, how we've been treating each other and we should do better. And that usually lasts one forty eight hours, and then we go right back to this robes. There's no way after the death of Charlie Kirk, we should be talking to each other like this again, that's just not possible. We just should not. This is disgusting behavior that we accept that some people look at who are in that camp and they go, yeah, get them, like yes, that's that's, that's what it is. And it's funny to hear the president call this guy Pete b Herman like that's and did you see how you see how awkward it was in the room when he said it so awkward but he laughed. It was. It was a bad moment even it's.
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Speaker 2: What we kids were in the room, a ten year old boy who had just survived drowning. If not for the heroics of a teenager, they were all there around the president, and yes, you know what he could have done gone higher. And if he wanted to call out Kristen Holmes for asking a question like that, he could have done it in a way where she would have looked awful for bringing something up like that in the presence of young folks.
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Speaker 1: What questions was she supposed to ask? Not about the news of the day. And she was respectful in what she was asking. She was to what he said. She didn't put it in her own context. She didn't she.
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Speaker 3: Didn't reiterate or repeat what osof said.
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Speaker 2: She asked for a response, and it turned into what it did because of the official White House response, You may you make a rose.
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Speaker 1: Why is it a ten year old and a sixteen year old were the bigger adults in the room that included the president. They know not to behave that way. They've been taught not to behave that way. It was another, I guess, typical moment. But it was a tough It was another tough moment. But Rhoades, I will and must be said, I think absolutely, Senator osov owes that young woman an apology. You absolutely I think that was wrong.
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Speaker 3: I agree with you.
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Speaker 1: This is nine and people are going to say, well, the president shouldn't be upset. He says worse things than Osoff has ever said. That is true, That is not the point. Do not compare the two men, but speak how he has now put out there into the world a suggestion that this woman is involved in some way inappropriate. He knew what he was doing. I will firmly believe that.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I absolutely believe that she was doing.
00:21:10
Speaker 1: Denied it, but he hasn't confirmed that. Yeah, it was a strategy point still being that part to do that to that woman, I think does that? Did that part cross the line?
00:21:22
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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Speaker 2: And she was and is being used once again as a political pawn. No one cares what her life is like, what her family feels like. And this, I believe, is a woman who has survived bone cancer. She is looking to the president as someone who saved her life, and she feels in debt to him, and that, as far as we know, is the extent of her loyalty to him, and that she appreciated. I mean, she obviously agrees with his politics, she obviously supports what he's doing, and whether you like how she presents that on social media alongside him or not, is a whole other thing. It doesn't mean that you get to just insinuate that there's something untoward going on between eighty year old President Trump and thirty five year old Natalie Hart.
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Speaker 1: You o want somebody want to present evidence or make a direct accusation to Okay, and that would be wrong, but to she shouldn't have to answer the question, and he shouldn't have to answer it either. Just making these suggestions. Now, this thing is going to get going in such a way. And you have a US senator who is being talked about as a presidential candidate at US Center from a very influential state, a US center, who's up for a very important reelection campaign, he's high profile, just kind of slide that kind of in there. I don't think that was cool. I don't think that was cool.
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Speaker 2: It's not, But then how it was received brought it to a whole new level of just absolute ugliness. I feel like we're now at a point, well not we've been here for a while. Our lawmakers from the top down are behaving worse than anything I ever saw on a schoolyard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because at least on the school, well schoolyard, you're I guess you at least have some fear that your teacher or your parents might hold you accountable. This is the wild West of schoolyards. Who's gonna hold anybody accountable? Who's gonna hold them to the standard? Us? The voters will vote them out? Okay.
00:23:16
Speaker 2: The sad thing is these lawmakers and our president and his staff are behaving exactly in a certain way based on what they know will bring people to the polls. So I think we're all responsible, Yes we.
00:23:31
Speaker 1: Are, It just doesn't I'm thinking about one congress person in particular, ropes. It just seems even when you have hope, when they come in, bright eyed, bushytail, and this was going to be different, and then then a few years lady go damn, we lost that one too.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it seems as if this is how the game is played, and if you don't play dirty, you lose. But my god, we can all hope for a better day one day, but this story looks like it is far from over. Will affore stay on top of it. We always appreciate you listening to us, every one. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside DJ Holmes. We'll talk soon.