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BREAKING: A third Donald Trump Cabinet nominee is embroiled in a sordid sexual scandal as it's reported that Linda McMahon — his pick for Education Secretary — was sued for knowingly enabling the sexual exploitation of children.
This is horrifying...
According to the lawsuit, McMahon enabled the abuse by a World Wrestling Entertainment employee that began in the 1980s. She is the former CEO of the WWE and co-founded it with her husband Vince, himself an alleged sex trafficker.
The lawsuit alleges that Linda and Vince, in conjunction with the WWE and TKO Group Holdings (the company's parent company), knowingly allowed an employee named Melvin Phillips Jr. to exploit his job as a ringsider announcer to abuse children.
Allegedly, Phillips Jr. recruited children as "Ring Boys," ostensibly to help with preparation and takedown of wrestling rings. He then used his proximity to sexually exploit the children — sometimes in front of wrestlers and executives in the locker room. He even filmed it.
The suit was filed in October in Maryland on behalf of five anonymous John Does who claim that they were exploited by Phillips when there were between ages 13 and 15.
"Phillips lured and manipulated the young boys with promises of meeting famous wrestlers and attending the highly popular wrestling shows, experiences that were otherwise unattainable for these kids," the lawsuit states. "(The McMahons, WWE and TKO Holdings) allowed Phillips and others to engage in, and foster, the WWE’s rampant culture of sexual abuse."
Linda McMahon denies that she was aware of the abuse — just like Donald Trump has denied his numerous rape accusations and Matt Gaetz has denied his child sex trafficking.
The MAGA movement is absolutely riddled with predators and enablers, an unsurprising reality given the fact that it's led by a monster like Donald Trump.
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1. This is 7 yrs old Tom. One day he told his schoolmates that his uncle was Superman. Kids made fun of him and no one believed him. Then his mother made a call, and asked her brother-in-law to take him to school one day. And Henry Cavill, of course, was delighted to do so...
No one should be able to resign from Congress to hide serious misconduct from the public.
And certainly not someone under consideration for Attorney General.
The House ethics report on Matt Gaetz must be turned over to the Senate.