Trump's Pick For Education Secretary Has Been Named In A Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
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Educators are sounding the alarm about Donald Trump’s choice to put the former WWE chief executive at the helm of public education.
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump smeared educators and teachers who support the LGTBQ+ community, accusing them of being child predators. But this week, he nominated Linda McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, to head the Department of Education ― even though she is being sued for allegedly allowing the sexual abuse of children.
The lawsuit, filed last month on behalf of five unnamed individuals, alleges that McMahon, along with her husband Vince McMahon, the president of World Wrestling Entertainment, and WWE’s parent company, TKO Holdings, knowingly allowed WWE ringside announcer Mel Phillips Jr. to sexually abuse children between the 1970s and the 1990s.
McMahon is the latest of Trump’s administration picks to be reportedly involved in a sexual abuse scandal.
Her nomination comes amid an ongoing Republican-led assault on the nation’s public schools, as well as the spread of baseless claims that legions of public-school educators are grooming and indoctrinating children.
Conservatives have claimed that books with LGBTQ+ themes are actually pornographic material, and that LGBTQ+ teachers, and teachers who support their LGBTQ+ students, are sexualizing children. Declaring themselves the champions of “parental rights,” they have fought to have books banned from classrooms and censor what teachers can say about sexual orientation and gender identity. It has become a defining issue for the Republican Party.
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