The brother of White House aide Natalie Harp offered some insight into her close relationship with President Donald Trump.

Natalie Harp’s relationship with Trump has become the subject of national debate after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) said the president was more interested in spending time with her and building the White House ballroom than he was in doing his job.

Preston Harp, who’s been estranged from Natalie for several years, said he doesn’t believe his sister’s loyalty to Trump is based on any “physical attraction,” but rather the siblings’ conservative upbringing.

“Well, my mom raised us with the idea that American exceptionalism was the correct way of looking at things, that the United States is the boss of the world,” Preston Harp said on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”

He also said he thinks Natalie Harp never broke out of that mindset, and Trump embodies everything their mother taught them growing up.

“So, I think that’s where her infatuation for Trump comes from, honestly, because I don’t think it’s a physical attraction. Let’s get real, you know, like, personally, I don’t think so,” Preston Harp said.

Natalie Harp’s rise to the upper echelons of Trump’s inner circle began in 2019 when she credited him with saving her life during a battle with bone cancer. This was due to Trump’s signing of “The Right to Try Act,” which allowed for the greater use of experimental medical treatments by terminally ill patients.

Preston Harp seemed to scoff at this notion.

“But if she thinks about it, what he did was he made experimental drugs legal to try and that insurance would pay for it. So, it’s not like he like physically saved her life, you know?” Preston Harp said.

He added that Trump’s “best friends” are people in his “fan club.”

“She’s his biggest fan,” Preston Harp said. “And so that’s probably why he likes her – and like, she’s good-looking.”

Preston Harp said he still loves his sister despite their differences.

“I hope that you change and that you wake up and you realize that everybody on this Earth is part of a human family,” Preston Harp said.

Watch Preston Harp’s full interview with Burnett here:

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