Trump gave US$45,000 cash to close aide Natalie Harp and others

US President Donald Trump gave tens of thousands of dollars in cash gifts last year to executive assistant Natalie Harp and three other close aides working in the West Wing, according to financial disclosures released by the White House.
The payments raised ethics concerns because federal employees are ‌generally barred by statute from receiving compensation beyond their government salaries.
Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain...