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Wie kann man zu einem Land Vertrauen haben, in welchem völlig inkompentente Leute wie Darth #Trump, #Hegseth, #Kennedy, #McMahon u.v.a.m. - auf #Musk nicht zu vergessen - das Sagen haben?
Das ist so, als würde man einem betrunkenen Chirurgen vertrauen, der gerade dabei ist, das eigene Herz zu operieren.
Es ist nicht nur die Zollpoliik. Diese ist schon eine Folge von inkompetenz und mutwilliger Zerstörung (Disruption) als Folge von Inkokmpentenz
#DarthTrump
#Vertrauen

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#TheOrangeMenace is shutting down The #DeptOfEducation and the woman he put in charge of destroying her own job, Linda #McMahon, fired 1,300 people, telling the Media:

"Don't worry. We kept all the GOOD people."

Who are the #GoodPeople? Apparently, white men who attended Conservative Christian universities.

"Not good"? Women and people of color. 🤨 #ISmellALawsuit #DisasterPresidency
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/

MSNBC · Trump fires 1,300 at Department of Education; programs expected to suffer with staff guttedBy MSNBC

Welp.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda #McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that places her atop a department that #Trump has vilified and vowed to dismantle. apnews.com/article/mcmahon-sen

AP News · Senate will vote on confirming Linda McMahon as nation’s education chiefBy Annie Ma

True to character, Donald Trump is already🔥 flouting ethics laws and norms even before he takes office as president in 2025.

The president-elect is 💥accepting secret donations to fund his transition
while 💥refusing to sign ethics pledges or deliver an ethics plan mandated by the Presidential Transitions Act.

⚠️The transition also has not signed an agreement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation that would allow the agency to do background checks on Trump nominees.

🆘The transition has missed deadlines in September and October despite transition team leaders #Howard #Lutnick and #Linda #McMahon promising to sign memorandums of understanding with the Biden White House that would facilitate the outgoing administration’s collaboration with Trump’s transition team.

According to The New York Times, the Trump transition has privately created an ethics code and conflict-of-interest guidance for transition staff,
but those documents do not include a legal requirement — a statement regarding how Trump will handle conflicts of interest while in office
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Rolling Stone · Trump Refuses to Disclose Who Is Funding His TransitionBy Peter Wade

Every. Single. One of them.

“A recent lawsuit alleges Linda #McMahon, who #Trump tapped to lead the Department of Education, knowingly enabled the sexual exploitation of children by a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) employee as early as the 1980s — allegations she denies.”

cnn.com/2024/11/21/business/li

CNN · Linda McMahon, Trump’s Education pick, was sued for allegedly enabling sexual abuse of childrenBy John Towfighi

Proximity to sexual abuse and scandal increasingly looks like a prerequisite for joining Trump’s upcoming Cabinet.

President-elect Donald Trump made yet another surprising pick on Tuesday,
naming former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO #Linda #McMahon as his intended nominee for education secretary.

McMahon, along with her husband, #Vince #McMahon, helped turn the WWE into the pervasive entertainment product that has become intertwined with modern North American culture.
Trump was a good friend to the McMahons during this time, even getting in the ring for the “Battle of the Billionaires” in 2007.

Linda McMahon stepped down from WWE in 2009 and launched herself in conservative politics,
serving on the Connecticut State Board of Education and running two unsuccessful campaigns for Senate in 2010 and 2012.
She then became a Republican megadonor, and was rewarded with an administrator position at the Small Business Administration in Trump’s first-term Cabinet.
On Tuesday, she was rewarded once again.
“Linda will use her decades of Leadership experience, and deep understanding of both Education and Business, to empower the next Generation of American Students and Workers, and make America Number One in Education in the World,” Trump wrote in a statement.
“We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort.”

But much like Trump Cabinet picks #Pete #Hegseth and #Matt #Gaetz, McMahon has troubling skeletons in her closet.
The WWE has long been known for its highly questionable, borderline abusive work environment.
Linda McMahon and Vince McMahon
—from whom she is now reportedly separated
—are being sued by five anonymous plaintiffs who served as “ring boys,” essentially teenage stagehands.
The ring boys allege that they were being sexually abused by WWE wrestlers Pat Patterson and Terry Garvin.
The suit states that both Linda and Vince knew exactly what was happening to the ring boys but did little, if anything, to stop it.
Vince faces even more damaging allegations of sexual assault, trafficking, and more.
And although these are separate from Linda, almost all of these accusations date from when Linda was leading the WWE.
Trump has yet to comment on the allegations.
Linda McMahon also falsely claimed in 2009 on a candidate questionnaire for the Connecticut Board of Education that she had a bachelor’s degree in education,
-- when she only has a certificate.
Per The Washington Post’s recap of the incident, she resigned from the board as soon as she heard that local journalists intended to make her error public,
but claimed the timing of her resignation was merely coincidental.

If confirmed as education secretary, McMahon will be charged with carrying out Trump’s plan for the Department of Education:
specifically, to kill it completely.

newrepublic.com/post/188630/li

The New Republic · Trump’s Latest Cabinet Pick Is Also Mired in a Sexual Abuse ScandalAlso, what does a former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment know about education?