The WWE sexual assault suit raises fears in front of the Linda McMahon session to run the education department.
Since Linda McMahon is scheduled to face a confirmation session on Thursday to lead the Ministry of Education, many former WWE employees, their family members and two current and former education officials raises concerns about whether they are decent of the situation overseeing more than 50 million students in about 98,000 public schools And 32,000 private schools throughout the United States.
These persons say, as these people say, is their commitment to protecting children and supervising the ninth door, which protects students from discrimination, amid allegations in a lawsuit in October that she participated in a change in sexual assault on children at the hands of global wrestling, entertainment employee during her term As an executive director at WWE. McMahon’s lawyer has denied these claims. McMahon is not accused of sexual assault.
“I had many friends who had their own history and trauma for the sexual assault with them,” this is a slap in the face. “NBC news.
A current employee in the Ministry of Education said and spoke on the condition that his identity was not disclosed due to the fear of losing her job that she had concerns about McMahon’s efficiency to lead the administration because of her participation in the lawsuit and the lack of educational experience.
The lawsuit McMahon and her husband, co -founder of WWE Vince McMahon, accused of enabling sexual assault and exploitation of children, known as “Ring Boys”, by WWE Ring broadcaster decades ago.
“She left children’s partners running through her company.”. I spoke on the condition that his identity is not disclosed to protect the identities of some John. She knew better. It was her duty to report this to the police and arrested this man. “
If confirmed, McMahon may face a unique challenge, as the Trump administration is hoping for dismantling. The sources familiar with the plan told NBC News that Trump is an executive matter to eliminate the administration, a step that requires the approval of Congress.
It seems that the major Democrats who spoke with NBC news focus more on McMahon’s policy questions more than the disputes surrounding WWE.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, a minority member of the Health, Education and Pensions Committee in the Senate. In low -income educational areas.
Assistant to the Democratic Senate member said that McMahon’s lawsuit “on our radar, but we will not display our cards before the session.”
McMahon will come to work with very few educational experience. She previously worked for one year in the Education Council in the State of Contect in 2009. She stepped down this role and a WWE executive president before her unclean Senate candidacy in 2010. She had a second Senate race in 2012. Trump’s first state is currently an independent director of Trump Media Company.
McMahon, a mother of two children, described to be behind the WWE Get Real program during her confirmation session of her seat at the Education Council in the state of Contect in 2009. It was launched in 2001WWE stars are used to provide educational messages to adolescents.
In a statement that denies these allegations against McMahon, lawyer Laura Profiti said: “This civil lawsuit based on excessive allegations of thirty years full of lies, exaggeration and exaggeration over Linda McMahon. Mrs. McMahon will strongly defend against this unnecessary lawsuit and in the end.”
Vince McMahon’s lawyer told NBC News in a statement that negligence claims in the lawsuit “incorrect and basis.” WWE representatives and her mother company, TKO, did not respond to the suspension requests. The White House did not respond to repeated requests to comment on allegations against Linda McMahon.
McMahon was named as a defendant alongside Vince McMahon, WWE and TKO Group Holdings in a lawsuit filed in October in the state court of Maryland on behalf of five men who claim to have been subjected to sexual abuse as children by Melvin Phillips Jr. , In the eighties. The lawsuit claims that McMahon knew about sexual assault and did nothing to stop him.
It is claimed that Philips used his position to recruit teenage children to help prepare and download wrestling rings in WWE events, only to exploit them later under the guidance guidance, according to the case.
Boy Khatam, a claimant claimant, told NBC News that he was subjected to physical and sexual assault by Philips, who died in 2012.
“It was certainly not a safe place for the child,” said the boy’s previous ring, who asked not to be identified.
He said it was exciting to be part of WWE and “to meet wrestlers and be on the road and to do things that ordinary children could not do.”
But Philips said, “He could strike at any time.
Since the lawsuit was filed, Other accused I advanced.
As the leader of the Ministry of Education, Linda McMahon will supervise its civil rights office, which imposes critical child protection policies such as the ninth address, a civil rights law that prevents schools funded by the federal government from exercising sexual discrimination.
During the first administration of Trump, the Minister of Education, Pitts Davos, reformed the regulations for sexual assault on the campus to give students accused more ways to defend themselves, and to restrict how schools can investigate the allegations of sexual assault and limit schools to investigate incidents that occur only in school or as devices From school activities.
Last year, during the Biden period, the administration canceled the Trump administration’s changes and replaced it with more favorable students for LGBTQ students and students who submitted abuse claims, but the judge struck them.
In a letter sent to schools this month, the Acting Minister of Education for Civil Rights, Craig Treenor, said that the administration will start enforcing the first lists in the Trump era again.
In addition, education groups and management officials are concerned about what McMahon leadership can mean for the Future Civil Rights Office if the administration is dismantled. In an article on its website on the Internet, the National Education Association for Teachers, in an article on its website, explained how to harm the civil rights office of another students.
“Many expect the White House to transfer the Office of the Ministry of Education for Civil Rights to the Ministry of Justice, a step that will weaken its ability to protect students from discrimination on the basis of race, sex and disability.” He wrote on his website.
The work of civil rights at the Ministry of Justice is implemented in the first place through litigation, and the Civil Rights Department in the Justice Department is broken only by administrative investigations in the field of enforcement carried out by the Civil Rights Office of the Ministry of Education. “This means that you are filing a lawsuit that will take years,” said Sheria Smith, President of the American Federation of local government employees 252, which represents the employees of the Ministry of Education, as well as a lawyer for the Civil Rights Office. “We are enforced. We are not prosecuting. We do not have to submit the courts. We are able to capture the phone with the educational area.” The Ministry of Education can reduce funding to a school for refusing to reach an agreement.
While the country’s largest educational unions in the country are concerned about the potential cancellation of the administration, others say it may be a good thing in general.
Davos, who has long supported the privatization of schools, repeated Trump’s call to eliminate the department, saying: “Students will be better without them.”
In Barry Weiss post online Free press Posted on Thursday, Devos is called the Ministry of Education as a “mediator” only to add “cost and complexity”. She said she was struggling to obtain the department “to make the smallest changes to develop students’ needs first.”
The previous ring boy who spoke to NBC News said that although he had never met Linda McMahon, he was very worried that she might lead the Ministry of Education because she does not bear any accountability for what happened to him and others in WWE.
He said, “Until she takes care and some remorse and some responsibility appear, she will not have this position,” he said. She participates in covering the matter. So what will you cover? ”
The allegations that McMahon and her husband were aware of the demands against Philips first appeared in the late eighties, when it was said that she played a role in his candidacy after his first dismissal in 1988. He was expelled again in 1992 with a diameter of $ 300,000, according to the lawsuit.
In the deposition of the oath first Business Insider has been informedPhil Motionik, the New York Post, the pillar of the New York Post, that Vince McMahon admitted that Linda McMahon knew what they described as “an abnormal interest and delivery of children.” According to Vince McMahon, Vince McMahon said, “Linda and I decided that this is a mistake.” According to the Mushnick certificate, Vince McMahon claimed, “Linda has been restored”, and the condition of “getting away from the children who were qualified, stopping to accommodate children, and stop chasing after children.”
By 1992, accusations against Philips and WWE employees stormed full public opinion, as Ring Tom Cole boy filed a lawsuit against the Global Wrestling Union, Mile Philips and others Performance of abuse. Linda and McMahon were not named as a defendant in Cole’s lawsuit. Cole claimed that he was expelled after he refused to engage in sexual acts with another WWE executive director. He settled to restore his job for $ 55,000 in the rear wage, according to the agreement signed by Linda McMahon.
Tom Cole Lee Cole NBC News told Linda that Linda had contacted his brother personally over the years. She also thanked him for staying silent about WWE’s ill -treatment during the 2010 Senate race, according to the current case.
Cole told me that his brother’s last words before his death in suicide in 2021 are still chasing him: “You are sure to tell them what they did to me.”
Lee Cole Podcast is now “Wrestling with Satan“Who broke the voices of the former boys who claim ill -treatment by Philips.
From Trump’s supporters, annoyed by McMahon’s choice to lead the Ministry of Education – he wrote to Sanders, the Senate Assistance Committee, to increase concerns about its nomination.
“I am a great supporter of Trump, and I am very disappointed in choosing him from Linda McMahon,” said Cole. “It does not matter whether you are a child, a man or a woman – no one was safe from sexual assault in that company.”