Jon Ossoff’s Baseless Attacks on Trump’s Assistant, Natalie Harp, Take to a New Low the Democrats’ Mudslinging

Dazzlingly illustrative of the ghastly intellectual and stylistic bankruptcy of the current Democratic Party is the recent attack by Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia on President Trump’s assistant, Natalie Harp. As was easily predicted, since this was one of the very few absurd smears that had not been hurled at the president and his entourage, it was taken up as a matter of intense confected curiosity in a barrage of malicious caterwauling by the Trump-hate press. As is well known and very accessible to anyone who goes to the challenging investigative lengths of consulting Wikipedia, which is frequently dishonest in President Trump-related (and many other) subjects, there is nothing controversial in this relationship.I have had the pleasure, and I may even say the distinction, of working a little with Ms. Harp on a small variety of matters. She is extraordinarily efficient, courteous, diligent, unpretentious, and all that anyone could ask in discretion, propriety, and good judgment as executive assistant to the holder of a great office. She has made no secret of, (and there is no reason why she should have been secretive about it), the origin of her loyalty to the president. This is her belief that his legislation enabling patients with dangerous illnesses, which were not responding to approved treatments, to opt for plausible treatments still at the testing phase. She did this and credits the president with her complete recovery from bone cancer.Senator Jon Ossoff at Ebenezer Baptist Church on January 19, 2026 at Atlanta. Paras Griffin/Getty ImagesOnly people afflicted by pathological hatred for the president could misconstrue these facts as anything that reflected negatively on either Ms. Harp or Mr. Trump. The fact that she is startlingly beautiful and always becomingly but tastefully dressed does not mitigate in the slightest the contempt that must attach to all those who have insinuated an improper relationship. Everyone in the world of conscient age who is not a recluse or an imbecile is familiar with the widespread practice of compulsive and often psychotic defamation of Mr. Trump. Up to a point, it is inevitable and impossible to counter, for the occupant of the most prominent and powerful position in the world, though it is no less disgusting for that. Yet a United States Senator who is a dark horse presidential candidate because of the terrifying absence of anyone else who professes to be a Democrat who is a conceivable occupant of that office, has inserted in his mudslinging a completely unexceptionable presidential assistant who is only noticeable because of her diligence and pulchritude. This is a new excavation in odious misconduct by Trump’s enemies. Fortunately, it is only fair to add that this attempt by a complete political nonentity to throw his flat wool hat into the Democratic presidential ring with such candidates for Mount Rushmore as Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Vice President Harris, Governor Gavin Newsom, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been severely criticized, including by some Democrats.Bill O’Reilly, who is generally fairly impartial in his acidulous treatment of public people and events, when I was on his Internet program ten days ago, condemned Mr. Ossoff as a “guttersnipe.“ The long-serving Democratic wheel horse and roué, David Axelrod, who is perhaps the closest one can come to a full-fledged continuator of the author of the sleazy leftist playbook, Sol Alinsky, genuinely raised himself conspicuously above the polluted marsh of recent Democratic federal politics by condemning Mr. Ossoff’s comment. In fairness to Mr. Axelrod, highly intelligent man as he is, he does this from time to time, including in his lamentation of the pathetic fraud of the Clinton-Obama attempt to tar Mr. Trump with the brush of traitorous collusion with Russia.As often happens, the most appropriate assessment came from Commentary; its executive editor, Abe Greenwald, wrote: “For the love of God, leave this woman alone.” Precisely.We are now more than ten years into the Trump era with only a couple of years left, and whatever these next years may hold, it is beyond question that Mr. Trump has been a profoundly important and transformative figure in American history, and one of the immense personalities of the contemporary world. He dominates newscasts all over the world every day for weeks on end. The reasons for the unprecedented controversy that has surrounded him will long be debated and will eventually become the subject of serious and dispassionate analysis. We await with thirsting hope the dawn of the day of sober contemplation of the Trump era. In the meantime, all civilized people across the political spectrum should deplore and refrain from smearing those decent people who do their jobs well in the hothouse of this remarkable presidency.

Jon Ossoff’s Baseless Attacks on Trump’s Assistant, Natalie Harp, Take to a New Low the Democrats’ Mudslinging

Jon Ossoff’s Baseless Attacks on Trump’s Assistant, Natalie Harp, Take to a New Low the Democrats’ Mudslinging

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