Natalie Harp calls Trump her ‘guardian and protector.’ She is MAGA’s ideal woman

Natalie Harp needs help — not the world’s worst father figure or his knuckle-dragging sycophants. In July 2020, Harp’s father, Robert, died by suicide. According to her estranged brother, Preston Harp, Natalie Harp and their mother wanted to tell people he died in his sleep. Preston Harp refused, insisted on telling the truth, and reportedly helped trigger a rift between the siblings that continues today.Harp was homeschooled in an extremely conservative family steeped in evangelical Christianity and American exceptionalism. Her father studied theology and ministry; Harp attended Liberty University. So when something happened that was too awful, too complicated, or perhaps simply too incompatible with the world the family had been taught to believe in, the instinct, according to Preston Harp, was to replace reality with something easier to swallow: Dad died in his sleep.A month later, Natalie Harp was speaking at the Republican National Convention about Donald Trump.Harp had already publicly credited Trump with saving her life after surviving bone cancer, a claim medical experts said did not withstand scrutiny. At the convention, she claimed Trump’s Right to Try law had given her access to the treatment that kept her alive: “Without you, I’d have died waiting for them to be approved.” Except the chronology doesn’t work.The treatment Harp described receiving was an FDA-approved immunotherapy drug prescribed off-label, a common practice in cancer treatment that predated Trump’s law and would not have been covered by it anyway. Harp had publicly discussed receiving the treatment in March 2018, two months before Trump signed the law. Trump did not need to save Natalie Harp’s life for Harp to believe — or at least publicly declare — that he had.That is when Harp’s life started resembling a community theater jukebox musical of Mel Brooks’s greatest hits. Only Harp is the lead singing “Springtime for Hitler” while chasing a golf cart, feveri