A little-known White House aide has become a political target, and the story is bad for Trump because it paints his inner circle as loyalists who tell him only what he wants to hear.

• Natalie Harp, Trump's 35-year-old executive assistant, has drawn attention after Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff name-checked her in a speech attacking the president as disengaged.
• She works out of the Oval Office, rides on Marine One, texts world leaders on his behalf, and stays up late helping write his social media posts.
• Nicknamed the "human printer," she follows him with a portable printer because he prefers reading things on paper.
• Aides worry she feeds him an unfiltered stream of material from conspiracy-minded corners of the internet, including the video showing the Obamas as apes.
• Her devotion traces partly to her claim that a first-term law letting terminally ill patients try experimental treatments saved her from cancer.

Outlook: Expect Democrats to keep using Harp as shorthand for a White House staffed by yes-men heading into the midterms.