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Thursday, August 20, 2026

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. 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."

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