唐纳德·特朗普总统的高级助手娜塔莉·哈普，自成为白宫角色猜测焦点以来，首次接受了采访——勉强算是吧。
Natalie Harp, a top aide to President Donald Trump, gave her first interview since becoming the subject of intense speculation over her role in the White House — kind of.
《华盛顿人》杂志周四刊登了白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张通过电子邮件发来的回复，张表示哈普将答案发给了他。尽管问题聚焦于哈普的背景和经历，但她的回答迅速且频繁地转向特朗普及其工作。
The Washingtonian on Thursday published emailed responses from White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who said Harp sent him answers to the magazine’s questions. Although the questions focus on Harp’s background and experiences, her replies pivot quickly and often to Trump and her work.
当被问及工作中最困难的部分是什么时，35岁的哈普感叹首都立法者缺乏推行特朗普议程的紧迫感。
When asked what the hardest part of her job was, Harp, 35, lamented the lack of urgency from lawmakers in the capital to implement Trump’s agenda.
“华盛顿特区的运作速度跟不上‘特朗普’的节奏！”她在邮件中说。“我们只有四年时间，让美国再次伟大，而太多人缺乏这种紧迫感，与此同时，激进左派试图阻止或拖慢总统为美国黄金时代所积累的势头。” 哈普向《华盛顿人》给出的回复——她代表特朗普在Truth Social上发帖——呼应了总统的社交媒体风格，夸张的说法和大量使用大写字母。但这些回答几乎没有透露关于她本人的任何信息。
“Washington, D.C., does not work at the speed of ‘TRUMP!’” she said in the email. “We have only four years to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and that sense of urgency is absent from too many, while the Radical Left tries to stop, or slow down, the momentum the President is building for the Golden Age of America.” The responses to the Washingtonian from Harp, who posts on Truth Social on Trump’s behalf, echo the president’s social media posts, with grandiose claims and liberal uses of capitalization. But the answers revealed little, if anything, about her.
当被问及她相对年轻的年龄如何影响职业成功时，哈普说“年龄只是个数字”，随后赞扬起特朗普。
When asked how her relatively young age has factored into her professional success, Harp said “age is just a number” and went on to praise Trump.
“在他的职业生涯中，总统从未将人们按人口特征归类，而是拥有罕见的天赋，能看到人们身上或许连他们自己都未曾发现的东西，无论男女老少，然后将这些天赋发掘出来，”她说。
“Throughout his career, the President has never compartmentalized people into their demographics, but rather has the rare gift of seeing something in people that perhaps they don’t see in themselves, male or female, young or old, and then bringing those gifts into focus,” she said.
在过去的一个月里，哈普在白宫中的角色以及她与总统之间的关系受到了外界的密切关注。此前，她和其他助手曾在伊朗可能构成的威胁下，与总统一同秘密离开“空军一号”（Air Force One）。众所周知，哈普对总统非常忠诚；然而，她与总统的过于亲密的关系以及她所拥有的特殊权限让其他高级助手感到不满。此外，她在白宫工作期间长达一年多时间都没有获得相应的安全许可（即没有通过必要的安全审查），出于某种未知原因，她一直拒绝接受这一审查程序——直到特朗普介入才改变了这一状况。
Harp’s role in the White House and the nature of her relationship with the president have come under scrutiny in the past month after she and other aides snuck out of Air Force One with him under a potential threat from Iran. She is known to be devoted to the president, but her proximity and access to him has frustrated other top aides. She also worked at the White House without security clearance for more than a year and declined to undergo the process for unknown reasons until Trump intervened.