Who is Linda McMahon? Trump picks ex-WWE boss Vince’s wife as education secretary

President-elect Donald Trump has named Linda McMahon, the woman of WWE laminitis Vince McMahon, arsenic his acquisition secretary.

Trump has a agelong past with McMahon, 76, and hailed the ‘incredible’ occupation she’s done arsenic modulation squad co-chair portion confirming her caller relation successful his cabinet.

‘As Secretary of Education, Linda volition combat tirelessly to grow ‘Choice’ to each State successful America, and empower parents to marque the champion Education decisions for their families,’ helium said successful a statement.

‘We volition nonstop Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda volition spearhead that effort.’

Now, she returns to his cabinet, 8 years aft being named Trump’s Administrator of the Small Business Administration.

Who is Linda McMahon?

Linda McMahon helped hubby Vince, 79, recovered WWE, and stayed progressive successful the concern for decades, contempt primitively moving successful firm instrumentality aft graduating from East Carolina University with a grade with French and a teaching certification.

She resigned from her relation arsenic CEO successful 2009, and went onto tally arsenic a Republican for a spot successful the United States Senate.

The aforesaid year, she was appointed to the State Board of Education, and portion determination were concerns astir her past successful WWE and knowledge, it was deemed adjuvant to person idiosyncratic extracurricular the establishment.

During her clip successful WWE, she did a batch of charitable enactment and initiatives focused connected education, portion she has a agelong past with Trump.

In 2016, she was named his head of the Small Business Administration, a station she held until 2019.

What did Linda McMahon bash successful WWE?

She served arsenic CEO from 1997, and from 1980 onwards played a cardinal relation successful negotiations with concern deals, including the motorboat of WWE’s archetypal enactment fig range.

As good arsenic her absorption roles, she besides appeared connected surface implicit the years, initially during the alleged Corporate Ministry communicative successful the precocious 1990s.

She got progressive physically astatine times, and adjacent got deed by Steve Austin’s signature move, the Stone Cold Stunner.

Is Linda McMahon inactive joined to Vince?

Linda and Vince McMahon met erstwhile she was 13 and helium was 16, and they dated done her precocious schoolhouse years until helium projected aft her graduation.

They tied the knot successful 1966, 4 years aft they archetypal met, and went onto person 2 children – Shane, present 54, and Stephanie, 48, who some had immense engagement successful WWE implicit the years.

After the quality of her assignment arsenic caput of education, her lawyer Laura Brevetti confirmed to the Washington Post that Linda and Vince are separated.

Vince McMahon allegations and the ‘ring boys’ lawsuit

Vince McMahon is presently nether national probe over allegations of enactment maltreatment and trafficking, portion helium faces a suit regarding the accusations from erstwhile worker Janel Grant.

Linda is not implicated successful either case.

Last month, a abstracted civilian suit was filed by anonymous plaintiffs who worked arsenic ‘ring boys’ decades ago.

They helped acceptable up WWE events, and the 5 plaintiffs person alleged that some Linda and Vince were alert they were being abused by high-ranking members of WWE but didn’t bash capable to support them.

Linda’s lawyer Brevetti called the suit ‘baseless’, portion Vince – who stepped down from his roles with WWE and genitor institution TKO successful January – has denied each allegations against him.

Donald Trump’s past successful WWE

From hosting WrestleMania successful the 1980s to appearing connected surface implicit the years, Trump has a storied past with WWE.

He’s adjacent successful the company’s Hall of Fame, and successful 2007 helium played a large relation successful storylines starring to the alleged Battle of the Billionaires against Vince McMahon.

The 2 friends were represented by wrestlers Bobby Lashley and Umaga respectively, with the loser – Vince – being shaved bald by the winners.

In the aftermath, Trump was deed by Steve Austin’s Stone Cold Stunner.

And this year, his connections to the wresting satellite person continued, with large names similar The Undertaker, Kane and Hulk Hogan each throwing their enactment down him successful his statesmanlike predetermination campaign.

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