Trump valet Walt Nauta was accused of sexual misconduct before hiring: report 

Donald Trump’s personal aide Walt Nauta had 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 accusations of fraternization, adultery, harassment, inappropriate sexual conduct and holding onto “revenge porn,” or compromising photos of women that he threatened to make public, according to the Daily Beast. 

Nauta, a Navy veteran, was removed from his post at the White House and stripped of his security clearance in May 2021, a month after one woman reported an “inappropriate relationship between a senior person and a junior person” in a  “command climate survey,” the outlet reports. 

The “senior person” was discovered to be Nauta, and investigators determined that he had inappropriate relationships with two other women as well. 

In August 2021, with the Navy’s approval, Nauta was hired by Trump to serve as his personal body man at Mar-a-Lago. 

Navy officials had considered “sending Mr. Nauta back out to sea on a ship” before he took the gig with Trump, according to the New York Times. 

It’s unclear if the now-retired senior chief petty officer was subject to any sort of discipline by the Navy. The military is not legally allowed to disclose the personnel records of service members. 

It is also unclear if the former president was aware of the allegations against Nauta before hiring him as his post-presidential valet.

Stanley Woodward, Nauta’s lawyer, declined to comment on the accusations when reached by The Post. 

The Trump campaign derided the report as a politically motivated “smear” job. 

“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 honorably served his country, and no amount of baseless and fabricated attacks will ever change that.”

On Dec. 7, 2021, just months after taking the job with Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., Nauta would stumble upon several of the boxes in a Mar-a-Lago storage room toppled over, revealing at least one document marked “confidential,” according to federal prosecutors. 

In May of 2022, Nauta is alleged to have acted on the former president’s instructions to remove at least 64 boxes of White House documents from the storage room after a  subpoena was issued for Trump to turn over all classified documents he retained after his presidency. 

However, when asked by the FBI about his knowledge of sensitive documents being stored at Trump’s estate he pleaded ignorance, allegedly telling federal investigators, “I don’t know. I don’t — I honestly don’t know.”

Nauta was indicted on six charges — conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, corruptly concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal and making false statements and representations — in June 2023 related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of Trump’s handling of classified documents. 

He pleaded not guilty to all charges and is scheduled to go on trial in Florida in May. 

The former president was slapped with 40 felony counts related to the classified documents probe.