The things you find online when you are an insomniac and taking a well-deserved break from researching climate change.
Like this article from The Daily Beast, He Was Accused of Sexual Misconduct. Then Trump Hired Him. Then He Was Indicted in Mar-a-Lago Case.
When Donald Trump invited his longtime White House valet, Walt Nauta, to join his post-presidential political operation in August 2021, he was hiring a body man with serious baggage.
Weeks before Nauta—a Navy enlistee stationed with the White House Presidential Support Detail since 2012—traded Washington, D.C., for Palm Beach, Navy officials had escorted him off White House grounds, reassigned him to a new post, and docked his White House security clearance in response to accusations of fraternization, adultery, harassment, and other inappropriate sexual conduct, including “revenge porn,” two people with direct knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast.
The allegations came from three female servicemembers, these sources said. While Nauta’s behavior had been ongoing for years, according to these sources, the women first reported it to supervisors in spring 2021, shortly after Nauta was recalled from his first, temporary post-presidential assignment at Mar-a-Lago.
Specifically, the initial complaints stemmed from a woman’s responses to a “command climate survey,” submitted sometime around April 2021. The woman reported an “inappropriate relationship between a senior person and a junior person,” according to one of the sources with direct knowledge.
Nauta, this source said, was high enough in the White House detail’s leadership structure that he was actually among the group of Navy officials briefed on that first complaint. The survey responses hadn’t named Nauta, however, and he walked out of that meeting “cool as a cucumber, ready to find the culprit,” this source said.
He had violated the U.S. military fraternization policy that bans relationships between members "that does not respect the difference in rank or grade.". He lost his security clearance over multiple events reported to the military, and the Navy pulled him out of the White House.
Nauta FAFO. Penalties for violating such military standards can result in a dishonorable discharge and loss of pay. He broke the military rules on multiple occasions with abusive relationships and revenge porn.
Three women told Navy officials the abuse came while Nauta worked in the White House for Donald Trump. Daily Beast reporting could not determine if he was charged with violating "unduly familiar" relationships. All involved eventually let the matter rest when he resigned from his gig at the White House. Trump eventually hired him as his bodyguard. The rest is history.
While working in the White House, Nauta had provided Trump with diet cokes and cleaned ketchup from the walls when he had a breakdown, and god only knows what else. Birds of a feather flock together, and these two sexual predators reunited when Trump hired him as his bodyguard after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
There is so much more in the Daily Beast story. Sollenberg does an excellent job on this story; in my opinion, it is a good read and provides unknown details on this guy's time with Donald Trump.
I had to register with the Daily Beast to read the article, which grants you access to a few free monthly articles. Otherwise, the story is behind a paywall.