What Pro Wrestling Taught Linda McMahon About Politics
What Pro Wrestling Taught Linda McMahon About Politics
[Via NPR: A former pro-wrestling executive, McMahon is now the education secretary Trump tasked with abolishing the agency. New Yorker writer Zach Helfand explains how her WWE experience led her to this role.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@npr_bot/116449070602198571]
Here's something else to know about Linda McMahon:
"For years, WWE employees lured underaged boys—known as “Ring Boys”—to assist with WWE’s wrestling events. These boys, many from vulnerable backgrounds, were groomed, exploited, and sexually abused by WWE’s ringside announcer, Melvin Phillips Jr., and another WWE executive.
The abuse occurred not only at wrestling venues, but also in hotels used in connection with WWE’s events, often in plain sight of WWE executives and wrestlers. Despite widespread knowledge of Phillips’s predatory behavior, WWE leadership—including Vince and Linda McMahon—failed to properly intervene or prevent the abuse, which allowed it to continue."
https://dicellolevitt.com/wwe-ring-boys-sexual-abuse-case-moves-to-discovery/
A former pro-wrestling executive, McMahon is now the education secretary Trump tasked with abolishing the agency. New Yorker writer Zach Helfand explains how her WWE experience led her to this role. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/nx-s1-5794689/from-professional-wrestling-to-the-department-of-education-inside-linda-mcmahons-effort-to-dismantle-the-department-of-education
Washington Post: Education secretary used fake photo in post about Black history icon. This article has been syndicated to MSN and does not have a paywall. “Education Secretary Linda McMahon lauded civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells on Truth Social on Friday, part of a series of posts praising celebrated women in American history. But the photo attached to the post wasn’t of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/washington-post-education-secretary-used-fake-photo-in-post-about-black-history-icon/"There is a beginning to the lies, January 20, 2025, but there is no end in sight. The war on Iran is just another thing for them to lie about. That this war, in fact any war, involves issues of life and death does not matter to these men."
#Trump #Iran #war #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Epstein #KristiNoem #PamBondi #RFKJr #LindaMcMahon #ScottBessent
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"Everything that has come out of the mouth of the Secretary of Health and Human Services is a lie. Everything from the Secretary of Education is a lie. Everything said by the Treasury Secretary is a lie including 'and' and 'the.”'
#Trump #Iran #war #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Epstein #KristiNoem #PamBondi #RFKJr #LindaMcMahon #ScottBessent
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Maryland lawmakers advance broad school protections, including for trans students
Democrats push back against Trump anti-DEI funding cuts for minority-serving colleges
Cabinet Apocalypse
A News Review in an Imagined Conversation
Timothy #Snyder Feb 26, 2026
#Trump. “I like it. No long speeches. No Union. Steal what we can and burn the rest. Or burn first and then steal? Works either way. ... .” [fictional!]
https://snyder.substack.com/p/cabinet-apocalypse
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America #Fascism
#LindaMcMahon #RussVought
#ScottBessent #HowardLutnick
#PamBondi #RFKjr #DougBurgum
#LeeZeldin #MarcoRubio #TulsiGabbard #KristiNoem #PeteHegseth
Police video shows former WWE CEO #VinceMcMahon [you know, #Trump #Education Secy #LindaMcMahon’s husband] crashing his Bentley at over 100 mph
Newly released police video shows Vince McMahon crashing his Bentley in Connecticut last summer as a state trooper tries to catch up to stop him.
#law #criminal #RecklessEndangerment #idiocracy
https://apnews.com/video/police-video-shows-vince-mcmahons-100-mph-car-crash-in-connecticut-ca2cc75a62ec422aa300c217b2218ae8