Linda McMahon probable pick for Trump’s secretary of education: report

Linda McMahon, presently co-chair of Donald Trump’s statesmanlike modulation squad and woman of WWE co-founder Vince McMahon, is expected to beryllium tapped arsenic secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, an bureau Trump has vowed to abolish.

McMahon was slotted successful aft it became evident that she was not going to beryllium tapped arsenic the caput of commerce, CNN reported, citing 4 sources acquainted with the matter. That presumption went to Howard Lutnick, her chap modulation squad co-chair and CEO of concern steadfast Cantor Fitzgerald.

McMahon headed the Small Business Administration erstwhile Trump was president the archetypal time, leaving aft 2 years to helm pro-Trump ace PAC America First Action. She serves connected the committee of the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a deliberation vessel favoring Trump’s ideas that she formed with respective erstwhile Trump advisors successful 2021.

Under McMahon’s leadership, the AFPI has spent the past 3 years drafting projected enforcement actions, argumentation memos and other statesmanlike prep successful the lawsuit of a 2nd Trump term, arsenic Politico noted.

Prior to her enactment with Trump, the rumored acquisition prime doubly ran for the U.S. Senate successful Connecticut, losing successful some 2010 and 2012.

She besides co-founded the WWE with her hubby and helped physique it into a media monolith.

The McMahons person recovered themselves astatine the halfway of galore lawsuits successful caller years, including 1 precocious past period that accused them of knowingly allowing the intersexual maltreatment of young “ring boys” throughout the 1980s and ’90s.

According to the suit, the erstwhile WWE execs were alert that the organization’s ringside announcer, Mel Phillips, utilized his salient presumption to prosecute boys arsenic young arsenic 12, often from “broken homes,” who were past were “groomed, exploited and sexually abused by Phillips.”

With News Wire Services