{"id":9984,"date":"2026-08-17T18:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9984"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:05:58","slug":"ossoff-targets-a-close-trump-aide-launching-a-personal-feud-with-the-white-house-as-midterms-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9984","title":{"rendered":"Ossoff targets a close Trump aide, launching a personal feud with the White House as midterms loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            A key Democratic lawmaker and 2028 hopeful\u2019s jab at a close aide to President Donald Trump has ignited a personal feud that could reverberate into a critical battleground midterm race.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9980\">Trump feels \u2018zero urgency\u2019 to replace Leavitt, as behind-the-scenes jockeying ramps up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, who is up for reelection in November, invoked the little-known, close aide to Trump during remarks Sunday in Atlanta as he railed broadly over whether the president actually wants to serve as commander-in-chief.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWhile the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings, he golfs, and trades stocks,\u201d Ossoff said at a campaign rally.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            He continued: \u201cHe doesn\u2019t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar,\u201d referring to Natalie Harp, the president\u2019s executive assistant.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Ossoff\u2019s audience cheered the attack, and commenters on X pointed particularly to his decision to invoke Harp. The White House took note, blasting him from the press shop.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cJon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he\u2019s a miserable person who hates this country,\u201d White House communications director Steven Cheung wrote in a post to social media.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            White House spokesman Davis Ingle said Ossoff was a \u201ccringeworthy, feminine theatre kid cosplaying as Barack Obama,\u201d and a \u201clightweight loser.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The name-calling underscores how closely the White House is watching Ossoff, who has generated 2028 presidential chatter as he\u2019s cast the midterm elections as a referendum on corruption, costs and failed global leadership.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Ossoff is running for his second term against Rep. Mike Collins, a close Trump ally endorsed by the president in the purple state. A June Fox News poll showed Ossoff up 13 points over Collins among registered voters in the state, though strategists in both parties believe this contest will tighten in the coming months.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9978\">The problem with Trump\u2019s foreign policy by empty threat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            It remains to be seen if Ossoff\u2019s efforts to poke the president generate any reaction beyond social media clap-backs, including the possibility of bolstered financial backing for Collins. Trump, via his MAGA Inc. PAC, has a $400 million warchest to use in the coming campaigns, and he\u2019s approved a first multi-million-dollar tranche of funding to be spent in the coming weeks, according to two people familiar with the plans.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"White House aide Natalie Harp, center, accompanies President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum during a tour of the East Potomac Park golf course, in Washington, DC, on June 28.\" class=\"wp-image-9983\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1c5132b79c025f66bf39e0b73b0128f1.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1c5132b79c025f66bf39e0b73b0128f1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1c5132b79c025f66bf39e0b73b0128f1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>White House aide Natalie Harp, center, accompanies President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum during a tour of the East Potomac Park golf course, in Washington, DC, on June 28.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Mark Schiefelbein\/AP\/File<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The moment also renewed focus on Harp, who has emerged as one of the president\u2019s most trusted personal aides and sources of information, frequently accompanying him on weekend trips to Mar-a-Lago and his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. When Trump snuck out of Air Force One to board a smaller aircraft in Turkey, due to a threat from Iran, Harp was one of a small handful of aides who joined him.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Harp has become an informational gatekeeper for Trump. She first came on the president\u2019s radar in 2019, sharing her story of living with bone cancer and surviving a catastrophic health incident, which she credited to Trump\u2019s \u201cRight to Try\u201d policies in a Fox News interview.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI\u2019m not dying from cancer anymore. Thanks to President Trump, I\u2019m living with cancer,\u201d she said on \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d an appearance that earned her speaking slots at the \u201cFaith and Freedom\u201d conference and the 2020 Republican National Convention, followed by a One America News Network role, solidifying her status as Trump validator. She started working as the president\u2019s personal assistant in 2022.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Harp reportedly sent Trump a number of laudatory and personal letters in 2023 that \u201cunnerved\u201d people around him, according to the New York Times. (\u201cYou are all that matters to me,\u201d she said in one, according to the report, \u201cI want to bring you joy,\u201d in another.)\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Today, Harp follows Trump around with a printer and the president dictates many of his social media posts and text messages through her, offering her a position of influence through proximity.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Alayna Treene, Arlette Saenz and Stephen Collinson contributed to this report.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=9976\">The day big albums start streaming, traffic deaths surge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key Democratic lawmaker and 2028 hopeful is igniting a personal feud that could reverberate into a critical battleground midterm race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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