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Buckeye73's avatar

Apparently Trump has nominated Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education. Her husband Vince McMahon has recently been forced out of the WWE due to a series of terrible sex scandals and cover-ups. Linda McMahon has been accused of covering up these scandals. I can't give the following enough trigger warnings- in a court filing, Vince McMahon was accused of sexually misconduct with a female underling and during sex with her, he is accused of defecating on her head. The McMahons have been close friends with Donald Trump for 40 years.

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Zero Cool's avatar

Besides this, McMahon is not considered a lightning rod as Education Secretary like Betsy DeVos was. She was previously head of the Small Business Administration and considerably low profile. Did not cause any controversy that I can think of.

I don’t know how the scandal will play out in the confirmation hearings other than McMahon will be probed by Democrats on this matter. Otherwise, I expect she’ll get overwhelming confirmation by both Democrats and Republicans.

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sacman701's avatar

Given that she served at SBA without any real incidents this doesn't seem like he's being disruptive for its own sake like with Gaetz, Hegseth, RFKjr, or Gabbard. I was expecting him to pick some Moms for Liberty raging asshole for Education.

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

He's just handing out jobs to donors and ass-kissers without any consistent nod to an ideological framework, which in its own way is slightly comforting. I think his number #1 priority is making his legal problems go away, #2 is deportations since that's what his campaign revolved around, and everything else is a distant 3rd+.

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Andrew Sidebottom's avatar

3rd is lower his tax bill/grift/corruption.

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ArcticStones's avatar

A key priority high on the list, I’d say #2: Increasing Trump’s power.

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Jonathan's avatar

Actually, considering his other choices, I am ok with McMahon

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Andrew's avatar

At the same time, it says to me that they really do want to eliminate the Dept of Education. They could’ve chosen a weirdo religious person but then that person would want to keep the dept going and make it into some Bible thumping bullshit. Kind of indicative of where they’re going as an administration.

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