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Right-to-try law

Right-to-try law

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Sep 24, 2026

David BenjaminCORRESPONDENT
48:55
But how did she get this kind of access? Why did she become so important to Donald Trump? Here's the backstory.
speaker_19NARRATOR
49:04
Harp first connected with Trump during her battle with stage two bone cancer, thanking Trump publicly for saving her life by signing the Right to Try Act in 2019.
Natalie HarpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
49:15
I'm not dying from cancer anymore thanks to President Trump.
Natalie HarpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
49:18
I'm living with cancer.
Teri Ann HourihanGUEST
47:29
He says there's four bills that passed law, but I can't find four bills that have passed in the law.
Teri Ann HourihanGUEST
47:34
In fact, I can find zero laws that have passed in the law, except one, which is the Right to Try Act, which is for terminally ill patients to be provided non-FDA approved medication.
Teri Ann HourihanGUEST
47:47
Now, so maybe one, but his name's not on that.
Teri Ann HourihanGUEST
47:52
So he's had three decades of work and he's done in my opinion nothing and as a medicaid provider myself medicare as well he is over committees that govern our state and not only that govern and reform the agencies and governments and therefore incredible power to stop the suffering of so many people in our state
Loren PiretraHOST
11:02
I've got fucking... sherman over there brad sherman he's a democrat doesn't represent me that's sure represents in israel pretty well though i might i might add so to continue with an natalie harp quote so i thought why should i care about politics also have we have a whole playlist on this so go back a few episodes if you want to see um the contradictory statements there she said i am not dying from cancer anymore thanks to president trump i am living with cancer not thanks to oncologists or science or anything but thanks to trump uh the white house did not respond to a request seeking additional comment on the treatment she received and we know up until this point very unclear a lot of inconsistencies a lot of theories backed in fact that people don't really believe she had cancer The timelines don't add up, and the terminology she's used to describe it also doesn't stand up to pretty much anything we've heard so far.
Loren PiretraHOST
11:59
So during Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, Harp's role was to talk about the Right to Try Act, said Sarah Matthews, a former deputy press secretary for Trump.
Loren PiretraHOST
12:09
I remember we would correspond over Twitter DMs, and she just seemed very excited to be helpful in any way, Matthews said at the time.
Loren PiretraHOST
12:17
At the time, it seemed Harp was trying to make inroads with staffers, she said.
Dick ShanleyHOST
48:38
She'll never leave me, he would tell other staffers.
Dick ShanleyHOST
48:44
Harp first came to his attention in 2019 when she spoke on Fox News about how Trump had helped save her life with the Right to Try Act, which she said had allowed her to get experimental treatment for bone cancer.
Dick ShanleyHOST
48:56
Before she began to work on Trump's restoration in 2022, Harp was an anchor of the far-right OAN and spread the gospel that the election was stolen.
Dick ShanleyHOST
49:06
This winter, she was the one who posted the sickening video depicting Trump as the king of the jungle and the Obamas as apes.
Dick ShanleyNARRATOR
48:38
She'll never leave me, he would tell other staffers.
Dick ShanleyNARRATOR
48:44
Harp first came to his attention in 2019 when she spoke on Fox News about how Trump had helped save her life with the Right to Try Act, which she said had allowed her to get experimental treatment for bone cancer.
Dick ShanleyNARRATOR
48:56
Before she began to work on Trump's restoration in 2022, Harp was an anchor of the far-right OAN and spread the gospel that the election was stolen.
Dick ShanleyNARRATOR
49:06
This winter, she was the one who posted the sickening video depicting Trump as the king of the jungle and the Obamas as apes.
Abe GreenwaldHOST
16:16
... after this, her father commits suicide.
Abe GreenwaldHOST
16:20
Um, she's been in touch with, with Donald Trump at this point because she had made a, a big speech, uh, I think at the RNC convention, p-praising his Right to Try, uh, praising the Right to Try Act, which, which, which, which saved her life.
Abe GreenwaldHOST
16:36
So Trump spoke to her after her father committed suicide.
Abe GreenwaldHOST
16:41
And in, in the let- We know this from the letters that have been dug up that she's written to him, and she said, uh, there was an allusion, I'm paraphrasing, "I'll never forget w-what you told me after my father died.
Loren PiretraHOST
0:28
Did Natalie Harp lie about how Trump saved her life? It seems like the Natalie Harp cancer story was never fully checked out.
Loren PiretraHOST
0:35
So Natalie Harp has told the country for the what, last seven years now that she would be dead if it weren't for Trump signing the Right to Try Act on May 30th, 2018.
Loren PiretraHOST
0:45
The Washington Post found her tweeting about that same treatment she was already taking that March, specifically March 27th, 2018.
Loren PiretraHOST
0:53
And that is the tidiest problem in this very deep pile.
Loren PiretraHOST
4:58
Every treatment failed her.
Loren PiretraHOST
5:00
Every clinical trial has turned her away.
Loren PiretraHOST
5:02
And then Trump signs the right to try act.
Loren PiretraHOST
5:05
Conveniently, a door that has been locked swings open and Natalie survives and goes on to become his diaper caddy.
KyleGUEST
18:19
Yeah.
Heather AshleyHOST
18:19
Um, her backstory, like she really came into the administration after claiming that the Right to Try Act that was signed by Trump, I wanna say in May of twenty eighteen, saved her life because she said she was dying of bone cancer.
Heather AshleyHOST
18:36
Um, and his signing it gave her the ability to access treatment.
Heather AshleyHOST
18:45
But when she described her treatment, it was FDA-approved immunotherapy treatment for non-approved use, which is just off-
Heather AshleyHOST
18:55
... which is legal, has been legal, and needs no law.
Heather AshleyHOST
19:00
It has already existed.
Heather AshleyHOST
19:01
The Right to Try Act is for non-FDA approved.
KyleGUEST
19:06
Mm-hmm.

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