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Joseph Gedeon and David Smith in Washington

White House faces questions over security clearance for top Trump aide Natalie Harp

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Natalie Harp at the White House last month. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/AFP/Getty Images

The White House faced fresh questions on Thursday over whether Donald Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, had access to US government secrets without security clearance.

Harp, who is executive assistant to the US president, worked at the White House for a year without the routine clearance, the MS Now network reported on Thursday. She refused to file the relevant forms for unknown reasons, according to two unnamed sources cited by MS Now.

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