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New information about President Donald Trump's close aide Natalie Harp raised eyebrows among critics online Wednesday.

In a bombshell report, MS NOW reported that Harp worked at the White House for an entire year without security clearance.

Sources said "Harp’s reasoning for failing to complete the process was unknown," MS NOW White House correspondent Jake Traylor wrote on X. "After concerns mounted among the White House 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."

Political and media experts responded to the new details.

"She 'declined?' 'Declined?' You can’t just decline to get a security clearance. You either get one or you don’t have a job. So much dysfunction in this White House. When will the GOP have had enough? Why risk the country for this?" Joyce Vance, former federal prosecutor, wrote on X.

"Nat sec official said this was very concerning," MS NOW investigative reporter Carol Leonnig wrote on X.

"A year of classified access without vetting and nobody thought to mention it until now?" wrote X account ZeroBarkThirty(2), a combat veteran and frequent political commentator.

"You can’t convince me Natalie Harp isn’t a Russian/Israeli asset," Gen Z commentator Jack Cocchiarella wrote on X.

President Donald Trump's close aide Natalie Harp apparently worked inside the White House for a year without a security clearance, according to a report on Wednesday.

MS NOW's White House correspondent Jake Traylor disclosed the revelation about Harp, who has been at the center of rumors about the nature her relationship with Trump.

"Both people said Harp’s reasoning for failing to complete the process was unknown," Traylor wrote in a post on X. "After concerns mounted among the White House 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."

Questions about Harp and Trump were ignited this week after Sen. Jon Ossoff delivered a takedown of the president, angering MAGA and the White House.

Former Trump aide Miles Taylor divulged why a Democratic lawmaker's attack on President Donald Trump hit so hard.

The former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security explained how claims that Sen. Jon Ossoff's attack on the president and his relationship with aide Natalie Harp was a "low-brow" move, Taylor argued in his Substack on Wednesday.

"It’s a scorching hot laser beam," Taylor wrote. "He took documented reporting of Trump’s corruption (including the secret flights, the ballroom obsession, the golf, the stock trades, the war he’s losing, and the weird stories about his too-adoring personal assistant) and compressed it into one sentence that delivered a hornet sting to the wannabe dictator in the White House."

What Ossoff did was identify a weak point for Trump, Taylor explained.

"Ossoff has rediscovered the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. And it’s mockery," Taylor wrote. "Strongmen can handle all the hatred because, weirdly (and this is Trump’s long-standing view), the hatred confirms their power. What they actually have such a hard time with is laughter. When people point and laugh, they cower and quiver. The tactic is as old as time."

That's what made Trump — and Republicans — so frustrated.

"Trump understands this instinctively, which is why the briefest, winking mention of 'Natalie' in Ossoff’s speech produced a coordinated White House meltdown," Taylor wrote. "Ossoff found the nerve, and — oh boy — it connected with the whole body of Trump’s corruption. Now, the president is screaming in agony."

Taylor exposed why this was so damaging to the Trump administration and what Democrats can learn from Ossoff's move.

"Ossoff, the supposedly vulnerable incumbent, has been choosing a different path," Taylor wrote. "While he’s no trained comedian, he’s out there with the swagger of Aristophanes by pointedly naming the enablers, mocking the corrupt, and smiling wryly as Trump and his minions demand apologies."

"So here’s a lesson for every Democrat who’s tried to do battle with a lowlife president by using high-minded policy papers," he added. "Fight like Jon Ossoff. You might just find that you’ll actually win."

President Donald Trump's close relationship with aide Natalie Harp has sparked rumors and revealed more about the reality of this dynamic, an analyst reported on Wednesday.

Jonathan V. Last, editor at The Bulwark, described how Harp created the role with Trump's administration for herself. And how Sen. Jon Ossoff's (D-GA) jab at Trump's flying habits with Harp wasn't about an affair; it was a pointed warning about a president who leans on an "unhinged" aide to a degree that's both darkly funny and genuinely alarming.

"She seems to spend a lot of time on X. She views Gateway Pundit as an important news source," Last wrote. "But wait. It gets weirder."

As right-wing Trump loyalists have rejected Ossoff's comments, it's raised more concerns over the nature of the president's connection with Harp.

"MAGA responded by going into high dudgeon and being outraged that Ossoff would dare suggest Trump was banging his human printer," Last wrote. "But Ossoff didn’t suggest that. He was pointing to the much weirder, unstable, and dangerous reality: The president of the United States has an in-house stalker, and he relies on this unhinged woman to an extent that is both hilarious and terrifying."

"Trump’s defenders are eager to pretend that Ossoff was suggesting an affair between Trump and Harp because the reality of the relationship is so much worse," Last added. "It’s like a flashing neon arrow pointing at the Twenty-fifth Amendment."