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Subject: Just being generous or ...?
Date: 09/09/26 7:51 AM
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Is Trump just be a generous good guy, or is he buying their loyalty?

Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to Natalie Harp, two other close aides

President Donald Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to his executive assistant Natalie Harp and two of his other young, loyal White House employees, according to financial disclosures released by the administration.

On their disclosure forms, which were released publicly late last week, the three women described the payments as “Cash Gift for Holidays.” The gifts amount to about one-third of the $150,000 salaries they each earn from their White House positions, according to an annual report to Congress.

Richard Painter, the former chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush and a critic of Trump, said the payments appear to violate a federal statute that prohibits the supplementation of federal employees’ salaries from outside sources.

“He’s clearly trying to make it easier for them financially to work in government service at the White House,” Painter said. “You can’t do that.”

A White House spokesperson denied that the payments violated any rules.

“The President has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit, including at times employees and aides, both in government and in his time in the private sector,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said. “The gifts at issue here have nothing to do with any of these individuals’ official government duties, and therefore are entirely permissible under relevant legal and ethical standards.”

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