Ted Cruz revealed that Natalie Harp printed Elon Musk’s tweet and straight gave it to Trump.
Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas, said he was meeting Trump at the White House in June 2025 to seek the president’s support for a school-choice provision when Musk’s post suddenly derailed the discussion.
The major fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk last year had a last-minute push from President Trump’s closest aide Natalie Harp, Ted Cruz insinuated at a recent podcast as he said Natalie just printed Elon Musk’s social media post in which he claimed that Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files and presented it in front of the president without any filter. Senator Ted Cruz said he was present at the Oval Office when the drama unfolded, when he went to seek the president’s support for a school-choice provision. Trump’s aide Natalie Harp printed out Musk’s post and handed it directly to the president, according to Cruz.
But their relationship deteriorated publicly in June 2025, with the two men trading increasingly hostile accusations.
“So what happens when something gets tweeted is [it’s] printed out,” Cruz said in an interview on Patrick Bet-David’s PDB Podcast. Cruz said he watched Trump’s reaction as he read the post. The senator joked that he learned “some curse words” he had not previously known and said the meeting over school choice effectively ended at that point. She has been dubbed the president’s “human printer” because of her reported practice of printing news stories, social-media posts and other material for him to read.
Cruz described the moment as an extraordinary interruption to what had been a policy discussion. Ted Cruz’s revelation came at a time when there are a lot of questions on Harp’s influence on Trump. Harp has an unusual role as one of the aides who regularly puts information from the internet in front of Trump. Musk had been a prominent ally of Trump and played a major role in the administration’s efforts to reduce federal spending through the Department of Government Efficiency.