Trump attacks CNN journalist Kristen Holmes following questions about Natalie Harp and allegations made by Ossoff
During a press briefing, the president did not answer Holmes’s question directly, but a little later, when she asked him questions about the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he attacked her head-on
Donald Trump and the White House have lashed out at a CNN journalist, Kristen Holmes, who asked the US president to respond to a Democratic senator’s attack regarding his alleged closeness to an assistant.
“One day your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened by it,” a US administration account, Rapid Response 47, posted on X, accusing the White House correspondent in another post of having delivered a “low blow against one of President Trump’s aides” during a question-and-answer session in the Oval Office.
Holmes had asked Trump to comment on the remarks made by the Democratic senator from Georgia, Jon Ossoff, who claimed that the president prioritises his own personal interests over his role. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie,” he had said during a rally, referring to Natalie Harp, an assistant who is, according to reports in various media outlets, constantly by Trump’s side.
Harp, a former television personality, often appears alongside Trump and has been nicknamed the ‘human printer’ because of her habit of providing the president with pages upon pages of documents. In the book *Regime Change*, two New York Times journalists wrote that Harp’s loyalty went so far as to her writing him ‘adoring letters’, including one that read: ‘You are everything that matters to me’.
During a press conference, the president did not answer Holmes’s question directly, but a little later, when she asked him questions about the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he attacked her head-on.
