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Haberman details Trump's visible decline — and his aides' fragile futures

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New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman implied the careers of much of President Donald Trump’s help are looking more and more tenuous as Trump’s age becomes more and more apparent. Trump’s rapidly approaching end is becoming more and more clear as the president leans more and more heavily on helpers like “human binky’ Natalie Harp, a close personal aide and executive assistant. “Yes. I use the term ‘binky’ on Sunday and it's really hard to see it as something otherwise,” Haberman told the MS NOW anchor. “I mean, he says, and again, we write about this in the book [Regime Change] that she's the only person in the staff in that world who loves him as much as his wife and kids. He would say to people during the interregnum period, you ‘know, you'll all go off and make money. She'll never leave me.’ The implication, of course, is that while Trump’s more accomplished helpers have a career waiting for them, Harp fewer opportunities awaiting her after Trump beyond a nice smile and whatever c

First report: Trump Executive Assistant Natalie Harp Joins Him at Bedminster Golf Outing — thedailybeast.com, 1d