Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson broke down how the "weird" relationship between President Donald Trump and his aide Natalie Harp says a lot about how his world is "collapsing around him politically and emotionally."
"Folks, Harp is a symptom of the dictator in decline. Not the Eva Braun, but more the Traudl Junge," said Wilson, referring to Adolf Hitler's last personal secretary, on Friday's episode of his podcast for The Lincoln Project.
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Junge, who began working for Hitler at age 22, typed the German dictator's will and testament in the Führerbunker before he died by suicide. She later acknowledged she was "fascinated" by whom she described as a "pleasant boss and a fatherly friend."
"I deliberately ignored all the warning voices inside me and enjoyed the time by his side almost until the bitter end," said Junge in a 2002 interview with the BBC.
Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political action committee, argued that Harp's devotion toward her boss makes her the "last seeming true believer standing next to him."
"She's earned her place in the Trump pantheon by being the absolute unconditional 'Yes, I love you, Mr. President.' The doe eyes, the adoring stare, the maniacal need to be in his presence," said Wilson of Harp, who has been described as Trump's "human printer" and has penned adoring letters to him.
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Wilson noted that Trump's net approval rating has cratered with Republicans since the start of his second term, adding that he now needs a "security blanket" and source of "comfort" around him as a result.
Harp, whose relationship with Trump has found renewed attention in the week and change since Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) mentioned her in a speech, has gone to extreme lengths to stay near the president, including one instance where she was seen sprinting after his golf cart at one of his private clubs.
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Trump has told staffers that Harp, whom he has called "sweetie," is the "only one who loved him as much as his wife and his kids," The New York Times' Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman reported.
"She gives him the thing that even his most eager sycophants fall short on delivering," said Wilson of Harp.
He later continued, "The relationship is so intertwined with the failure of Trump, with the collapse of his popularity, with the depths to which he is now sinking in the minds of the American people that he needs to concentrate the love he once felt from the MAGA horde into one person."
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