Donald Trump’s personal assistant Walt Nauta has been accused of sexual misconduct by three female service members in the weeks before he took a job at Mar-a-Lago as the former president’s “body man,” according to a report.
The allegations date back to Nauta’s time as a member of the White House Presidential Support Detail and include allegations of fraternity, adultery, harassment, inappropriate sexual conduct and possessing “revenge porn,” or affecting photographs of women he threatened to make public, according to the Daily Beast.
Nauta, a Navy veteran, was removed from his position at the White House and stripped of his security clearance in May 2021, a month after a woman reported “inappropriate relationships between seniors and juniors” in a “command climate survey,” the outlet reported. .
The “right person” was found to be Nauta, and investigators determined that he also had inappropriate relationships with two other women.
In August 2021, with the Navy’s approval, Nauta was hired by Trump to serve as his personal body at Mar-a-Lago.
Navy officials had considered “sending Mr. Nauta back to sea on a ship” before he joined the show with Trump, according to the New York Times.
Nauta was stripped of his security clearance and removed from his White House Navy post in 2021 amid allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a report. JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
It was unclear whether the now-retired senior chief petty officer was subject to any discipline by the Navy. The military is not legally allowed to release personnel records of service members.
It is also unclear whether the former president was aware of the allegations against Nauta before hiring him as a post-presidential valet.
Stanley Woodward, Nauta’s attorney, declined to comment on the allegations when contacted by The Post.
Trump’s campaign derided the report as a politically motivated work of “degradation.”
“This is nothing more than a blatant attempt to smear Mr. Nauta for political purposes,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to The Post.
“He is a distinguished veteran of over 20 years who served his country honorably, and no amount of baseless and fabricated attacks will change that.”
On Dec. 7 2021, just months after taking a job with Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., Nauta would come across several boxes in a demolished Mar-a-Lago storage room, revealing at least one document marked “secret,” according to federal prosecutors.
It is unclear whether Trump was aware of the allegations against his “body man” before hiring him to work at Mar-a-Lago in August 2021. Getty Images
In May 2022, Nauta allegedly acted on the former president’s instructions to remove at least 64 boxes of White House documents from storage rooms after a subpoena was issued for Trump to hand over all classified documents he had kept after becoming president.
However, when asked by the FBI about his knowledge of sensitive documents stored at Trump’s estate, he pleaded not knowing, allegedly telling federal investigators, “I don’t know. I don’t — I honestly don’t know.”
Nauta was indicted on six counts — conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding documents or records, corruptly concealing documents or records, corruptly concealing documents in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal and make false statements and representations — in June 2023 in connection with the special investigation of attorney Jack Smith on Trump’s handling of classified documents.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges and is scheduled to stand trial in Florida in May.
The former president was charged with 40 criminal charges related to the investigation of classified documents.
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