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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: How the propaganda sausage is made
Date: 08/19/26 11:29 AM
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So in a speech Jon Ossoff said simply that Natalie Harp and Trump travel together.

Immediately the RW propaganda machine cranked the volume up to 11, saying that Ossoff was saying quite clearly that Trump and Harp were having an affair. Plainly not true, but the RW outrage machine is always looking for anything to get their gullible followers all lathered up.

What Ossoff was pointing out is the weirdness of the relationship and who the hell is Harp anyway and what are her 'duties' in Trump's inner circle.

It was October 2023, and Donald Trump was due at a New York City courthouse to fight his latest set of legal troubles. But as the motorcade idled outside his Trump Tower residence, staffers confronted a more immediate problem: There wasn’t room for Harp, the hyper-loyal aide whose devotion to Trump had quickly entrenched her within his orbit.

A screaming match in the lobby ensued, with Harp insisting that Trump had personally asked her to attend the court appearance, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Denied a seat but determined not to be left behind, Harp jumped into an SUV trunk, according to the two sources and confirmed by a photo obtained by CNN.

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According to journalist Michael Wolff’s 2024 book, All or Nothing, Harp previously slept in the locker rooms at the property [Trump's Bedminster golf club].

Wolff revealed that during one of Trump’s summers at Bedminster, Natalie found herself without any assigned accommodations.

He wrote, per a Vanity Fair excerpt, “Out of sight, for Trump, was out of mind. And even Natalie would not presume to speak to Trump about her accommodation.”

“And yet, in Bedminster, suddenly there she was. She had reached out to the grounds staff at the country club and gotten herself a maid's room. And when that proved too far from the main house to respond quickly enough to Trump’s calls, she relocated herself to the much closer women’s locker room, where, with undiminished proximity to Trump, she would spend the summer.”


The secret service: “a potential danger to herself as well as to the president.”

And let's give FOX's idiot spewer Jesse Watters the last word:

“I mean, to suggest that Trump surrounds himself with attractive women? I mean, yeah. he’s done that his whole life. I don’t think he’s very upset about the comment. am I fazed by this comment? no. has Trump said SO MUCH WORSE, so much more sleazy things against other people? YES. have I defended those things? ABSOLUTELY. so, I’m not going to pretend I’m all hot and bothered about this.”
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