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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLinda McMahon, runs Trump's PAC, once hired a suspected child molester "if he stopped chasing kids"
https://news.yahoo.com/wwe-cofounder-linda-mcmahon-runs-170557844.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtrLink to tweet
As President Donald Trump's presidential campaign lurches toward the finish line, many of his supporters have seized on an increasingly deranged and unsupported set of accusations and tropes that paint Joe Biden and the Democratic Party as tolerant of sex predators who prey on children. The line of attack, which is consistent with and inspired by the QAnon conspiracy theory, has reached the highest levels of the Trump campaign, with the candidate himself amplifying and endorsing the "#pedobiden" hashtag to his over 87 million followers on Twitter.
Linda McMahon, the former Trump administration official who now runs President Donald Trump's biggest super PAC, presided over a child-sexual-abuse scandal in the 1990s, an Insider investigation has found.
In 1992, WWE, the wrestling behemoth that McMahon cofounded with her husband, Vince, faced allegations that a ring announcer sexually abused the teen boys who helped him set up for matches.
Several boys said the announcer, Mel Phillips, repeatedly rubbed their feet against his crotch in incidents going back to 1986.
Vince McMahon told a reporter that both he and Linda McMahon suspected Phillips of taking a "peculiar and unnatural" interest in children for years before they finally fired him, according to testimony in court records.
An attorney for WWE told Insider that the accusations against Phillips were about a "foot fetish" and did not include "anything approximating conventional forms of sexual abuse such as rape, sodomy, etc." He described claims that the McMahons knew about the accusations while continuing to work with Phillips as "outlandish" and "classic libel."
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Linda McMahon, runs Trump's PAC, once hired a suspected child molester "if he stopped chasing kids" (Original Post)
sunonmars
Oct 2020
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rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)1. the gop is a cesspool
no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)2. QAnon only cares about *democratic* child molesters.