DISGUSTING: Jen Psaki Helps Ossoff Walk Back Smear of Female WH Aide

Jorge Bonilla
August 18th, 2026 1:55 AM

Media tongues were left wagging over the weekend after Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said at a rally that President Trump "wanted to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie," implying impropriety with aide Natalie Harp. And after a weekend of controversy, a familiar face emerges and helps Ossoff perform narrative cleanup. 

Watch the exchange as aired on MS NOW's The Briefing with Jen Psaki on Monday, August 17th, 2026:

 

 

JEN PSAKI: You have raised a huge amount of money, and I want to get to that in a moment. And you do have a race in a state that is red or red-blue, depending on the day. And I want to talk about that. But one of the reasons why I think you've raised so much money is because you've called things out about Trump in a very clear way that others haven't. And it's- and it's broken through. And the reason I asked about Natalie Harp is because it's kind of raised this question out there. More questions about her. He is surrounded by sycophants, no question. I just talked about that. But you specifically mentioned her, and I just wonder why.

JON OSSOFF: Well, I've heard this particular aide referred to as his "security blanket." And I think we could say that about any number of the senior aides in The White House. They're not telling him what he needs to hear. They're telling him what he wants to hear. And the nation is at war, and we cannot afford that. We need a team in The White House. We need folks at the State Department, at the Defense Department, in the United States Congress who take their jobs seriously. Those sailors out on the Lincoln, they do their jobs with excellence and dedication every single day. They didn't sign up for luxury. They signed up to defend the country. And the president, surrounded by enablers in The West Wing, is playing golf, is trading stock and is decorating his ballroom. It's a disgrace- all while American families in Georgia and across the country pay more for just about everything as a direct result of his failed economic policy and his failed foreign policy.

Ossoff's misogynistic remarks were condemned far and wide. Natalie Harp isn't the first female aide to President Trump to be caught up in vile smears, either. Allegations of an affair with the president have befallen many a young female staffer in the Trump White House, often amplified without evidence by such media cesspools as MS NOW.

And that's precisely where Ossoff went when the heat got too hot and it was time to walk the smear back. So he goes on with Jen Psaki, the paragon of ethical virtue that negotiated her then-MSNBC contract while still serving as Press Secretary for the Biden White House. 

In a carefully engineered segment, Ossoff walks back his gross smear and tries to say that this was about any number of aides at The White House. That this is patently false is irrelevant. There is only the news cycle to be won, aided and abetted by Democratic communications professionals on the other side of the media revolving door. Truth be damned.