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Chuck Darwin

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
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Chuck Darwin

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?
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Chuck Darwin

After the Bitcoin event in Nashville,
Trump brought Lutnick on board his plane, Trump Force One,
to a campaign stop in Minnesota, where Lutnick introduced Vance.

Lutnick later told an interviewer that travelling to a rally with the former President was
like “going to a rock concert with Mick Jagger.”

During the trip, Lutnick said, Trump offered him a formal role as co-chair of his Presidential transition team.

The decision was announced a few weeks later,
after the fund-raiser at Lutnick’s Bridgehampton home.

Another co-chair is #Linda #McMahon,
the former head of the Small Business Administration in the Trump Administration.

She, too, is a wealthy donor who, according to federal records, has given more than $10 million to support Trump in 2024.

That same month, Trump announced that he and his sons
Don, Jr., and Eric
were getting into the crypto business themselves.

#Steve #Witkoff, a New York real-estate mogul and a major Trump donor,
who testified on Trump’s behalf during his civil fraud trial this year,
helped set up the venture,
called "World Liberty Financial".

One of the entrepreneurs brought in as a partner,
#Chase #Herro, was later revealed to have referred to himself as
“the dirtbag of the Internet.”

Trump, during a rambling two-hour live-stream rollout on X,
struggled to describe how exactly the new business would work,
or even when it would launch.

“Crypto is one of those things we have to do,” he said.

“Whether we like it or not.”

By then, Lutnick’s sphere of influence had moved well beyond bitcoin.

In October, he told the Financial Times that appointees in a second Trump Administration would be subject to a strict
❌“loyalty” test
to avoid the kinds of senior aides who sought to constrain Trump during his first term.

“Those people were not pure to his vision,” Lutnick said.

“We’re going to give people the role based on their capacity
—and their fidelity and loyalty to the policy, as well as to the man.”

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