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RandySF

(70,602 posts)
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:50 PM 3 hrs ago

Trump Pick Linda McMahon Is Facing Her Own Sex Scandal

Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon left the spectacle of televised wrestling more than a decade ago, but her new appointment to Donald Trump‘s administration has brought fresh scrutiny to her time presiding over the testosterone-charged industry.

McMahon on Tuesday was tapped to lead the Department of Education as she and her husband, the embattled Vince McMahon, are embroiled in a sex scandal, something of a developing trend in the second Trump administration.

Last month, a group of five former “ring boys” named the McMahons in a sex abuse lawsuit along with World Wrestling Entertainment and its parent company, TKO Group. The John Does alleged that from the 1970s to the 1990s, former WWE announcer Melvin Phillips Jr. groomed and sexually assaulted them and other minors, without any consequences from his employer.

What’s more, they claimed the McMahons—in their capacity as chief WWE executives—specifically knew about and ignored Philips’s predation. His “peculiar and unnatural interest” in young boys prompted the couple to fire Phillips in 1988, the lawsuit says; they quickly reinstated him on the condition he “steer clear from kids,” which he didn’t.

Linda’s lawyer, Laura Brevetti, called the lawsuit’s complaints “baseless” and said the McMahons were separated.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/linda-mcmahon-tapped-for-trumps-education-secretary-faces-own-sex-scandal/

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Trump Pick Linda McMahon Is Facing Her Own Sex Scandal (Original Post) RandySF 3 hrs ago OP
The family values party radius777 3 hrs ago #1
Well, let's us just K&R this UTUSN 3 hrs ago #2
Yup. sheshe2 3 hrs ago #3
It's not a bug UpInArms 3 hrs ago #4
No kidding. sheshe2 2 hrs ago #5
Making America GRATE Again. calimary 2 hrs ago #7
That too! sheshe2 2 hrs ago #10
Every accusation is an admission. QAnon will be right in this. underpants 2 hrs ago #16
"Sex Scandal" aside.. what makes Linda McMahon Cha 2 hrs ago #6
Yep.. Tribetime 2 hrs ago #8
I think she met Betsy DeVoss once. Mr.Bill 2 hrs ago #9
Thanks.. I figured it was something Cha 2 hrs ago #19
She and hubby gave him millions of dollars. sheshe2 2 hrs ago #11
TSF is Obviously Trying to Make a Mockery of Cha 2 hrs ago #20
I hear you, Cha. sheshe2 2 hrs ago #21
He's not just trying. 3catwoman3 1 hr ago #23
Loud & clear, Cha and Sheshe Hekate 57 min ago #25
Much of that whole world moniss 2 hrs ago #12
There is no bottom with Trump sakabatou 2 hrs ago #13
I guess they figure,... LudwigPastorius 2 hrs ago #14
I nominate Shane McMahon for Secretary of Defense. NBachers 2 hrs ago #15
you cannot make this shit up Skittles 2 hrs ago #17
I am still obsessed with the software tabulation used in those machines. kimbutgar 2 hrs ago #18
Having involvement in a sex crimes is required on their CVs Hassler 1 hr ago #22
Following in the fine tradition NJCher 57 min ago #24
Seems its the standard with Figarosmom 45 min ago #26
The Group at the Center of Trump's Planning for a Second Term Is One You Haven't Heard of cliffside 16 min ago #27

radius777

(3,813 posts)
1. The family values party
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 11:08 PM
3 hrs ago

whose preoccupation with sex and gender has always been a projection.

They go nuts about woke, trans etc as the 'decay of society' - but seem to have no concern about actual predators (and enablers thereof) in their midst.

sheshe2

(87,464 posts)
3. Yup.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 11:27 PM
3 hrs ago

Sex Scandals everywhere. Trump’s Cabinet-level nominees have been accused of sexual harassment and assault, and one has faced allegations of child sex trafficking.

President-Trump
Attorney General-Gaetz
Department of Education-McMahon
Department of Defense-Hegseth
Department of Health and Human Services. -Kennedy
Department of Government Efficiency -Musk

sheshe2

(87,464 posts)
5. No kidding.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 11:33 PM
2 hrs ago

He is digging deep into the cesspool for the worst of the worst.

MAGA making America great!

Cha

(305,379 posts)
19. Thanks.. I figured it was something
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 12:25 AM
2 hrs ago

like this.

Again you can't make Up this Horrifying Living Nightmare.

sheshe2

(87,464 posts)
11. She and hubby gave him millions of dollars.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 11:55 PM
2 hrs ago

That is the extent of her qualifications.

ching. ching.

Cha

(305,379 posts)
20. TSF is Obviously Trying to Make a Mockery of
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 12:31 AM
2 hrs ago

America. And, his Puppeteer is laughing it up over there in Russia.

I HOPE it All Explodes in his Ugly face Someday!



moniss

(5,705 posts)
12. Much of that whole world
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 12:08 AM
2 hrs ago

is about as sleazy as it gets. When Vince got forced out at WWE so quickly you know what he was into had to be real, real bad. That was his baby like he would hang on to for dear life.

LudwigPastorius

(10,782 posts)
14. I guess they figure,...
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 12:10 AM
2 hrs ago

she won't have a job long anyway, as they're getting rid of the whole department.

Skittles

(159,231 posts)
17. you cannot make this shit up
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 12:18 AM
2 hrs ago

GOP is the party of perverts who want to tell you what fucking bathroom to use

kimbutgar

(23,254 posts)
18. I am still obsessed with the software tabulation used in those machines.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 12:23 AM
2 hrs ago

Like dumpt demanded he got the hand counts. Especially in those swing states. Him winning them all is an abnormality IMHO!

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