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WWE CEO Linda McMahon was criticized for a fake diploma
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WWE CEO Linda McMahon was criticized for a fake diploma

Linda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, previously resigned from a top education post after her qualifications began to publicly waver.

In 2009, the former CEO of WWE was confirmed to the Connecticut Board of Education after a controversial hearing, in which critics questioned her suitability for the role if she continued to be involved in professional wrestling’s often controversial TV content.

McMahon’s responses to a questionnaire about her background reportedly reviewed by then-Gov. Jodi Rell, were touted in an effort to boost her credentials. However, it later turned out that several of McMahon’s answers were lies.

One of her answers was the claim that she had earned a bachelor’s degree in education from East Carolina University in 1969, which turned out to be untrue. Her diploma was in French.

After the Hartford Courant contacted her about the claim in 2010, she resigned, the newspaper reported.

McMahon previously tried to write off the discrepancy as a mistake, claiming she had combined her student teaching experience with a degree in education.

In a quote to the Boston Globe, Trump transition spokesman Brian Hughes said the confusion was addressed “many, many years ago.”

“These types of politically motivated attacks are the new normal for nominees willing to carry out President Trump’s common-sense mandate that an overwhelming majority of Americans supported two weeks ago,” Hughes said.

McMahon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

Still, the degree revelation has hardly been the only controversy surrounding McMahon. Sex scandals have followed her husband Vince during his tenure over WWE, and recently a group of five former “ring boys” named the McMahons in a sexual abuse lawsuit, along with World Wrestling Entertainment and its parent company, TKO Group.

Both McMahon and her husband, Vince, have denied the allegations against them.

In response to the sexual abuse lawsuit, McMahon’s attorney, Laura A. Brevetti, called the claims “baseless.”

“This civil lawsuit, based on more than thirty-year-old allegations, is filled with blatant lies, exaggerations, and misrepresentations regarding Linda McMahon,” Brevetti told the Daily Beast. “The matter was investigated at the time by corporate attorneys and the FBI, who found no grounds to continue the investigation.”