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IT SEEMED LIKE ALL ANYONE COULD TALK ABOUT over the last few days was President Donald Trump’s relationship with his 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp. She’s constantly pictured near him, senators apparently text her to get messages to the president, and what we hear about the relationship is simply strange. That’s to say nothing about the uncomfortably obsequious letters she penned to Trump.
But as much as people are focused on the odd power dynamics and eyebrow-raising personnel decisions, this is also a story about the peculiar professional arrangements that Donald Trump fosters. I know because I lived in them.
Long before Harp sprinted down the fairways of a Scottish golf course in an effort to catch up with Trump’s motorcade, I heard plenty of stories about the absurd lengths people went to for “the boss.” Staff reportedly steamed his pants while he was still wearing them. Trump would also ask aides to...
