Linda McMahon's Controversial Past Surfaces Amid Trump Cabinet Appointment

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Linda McMahon's Controversial Past Surfaces Amid Trump Cabinet Appointment
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Linda McMahon, former CEO of WWE and Trump's pick for Education Secretary, is facing a lawsuit alleging she enabled the sexual exploitation of children by a WWE employee, Melvin Phillips Jr., in the 1980s. The lawsuit claims McMahon and her husband, Vince, were aware of Phillips' actions but failed to protect the victims. McMahon denies the allegations, calling them false. The lawsuit was filed under Maryland's Child Victims Act, which allows for civil suits in cases of child sexual abuse without a statute of limitations.

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