Huh... I know we have a lot of wrestling fans on here. I just saw someone make a comment about the Department of Justice having requested that the accuser of Vince McMahon, who is suing him for claims of sex-trafficking, pause their lawsuit pursuant to the DOJ conducting a private federal probe.
(I tried to find non-paywalled sources that didn't lean super-hard left. None mention Trump in the reasoning, of course.)
The woman who is currently suing ex-WWE boss Vince McMahon is pausing her lawsuit at the request of the Justice Department, according to the woman's lawyer.
Janel Grant, the former WWE employee who sued McMahon, the company and former WWE executive John Laurinaitis in January, agreed to pause her lawsuit.
"Ms. Grant has consented to a request by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to stay her case against Mr. McMahon, WWE and Mr. Laurinaitis, pursuant to a pending non-public investigation," Ann Callis, a lawyer for Grant, said in a statement to ABC News. "We will cooperate with all appropriate next steps."
A sex trafficking and sexual misconduct lawsuit filed against former WWE boss Vince McMahon by an employee has been put on hold while the U.S. Department of Justice conducts their own investigation.
Janel Grant, a former employee at WWE headquarters, agreed to temporarily pause her lawsuit against McMahon, WWE and John Laurinaitis, the company's former head of talent relations, at the request of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to allow for a federal probe.
"Ms. Grant has consented to a request by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to stay her case against Mr. McMahon, WWE and Mr. Laurinaitis, pursuant to a pending non-public investigation," Grant's attorney Ann Callis said in a statement to USA TODAY Sports. "We will cooperate with all appropriate next steps."
More specifically, the comment posited that the
reason they requested it be paused is that they're now wanting to look at Trump's involvement. Which while entirely Facebook conjecture... Maybe there is something to that. They
are very close friends, and apparently are still in regular contact even since McMahon stepped down from TKO Holdings. It does definitely seem that the timing of them requesting the pause coming right after Trump's conviction is... Interesting.
McMahon has also talked to Trump, according to two of the people close to the wrestling impresario. The two billionaires have been in touch regularly, according to a person close to McMahon, although it isn't clear what they've discussed.
Trump and the McMahon family go way back: The former president hosted two WrestleMania events in Atlantic City in the late 1980s, engaged in a wrestling "feud" with McMahon in 2007 and is a member of the WWE Hall of Fame. Linda McMahon, McMahon's wife, served as the Small Business Administration's head in Trump's Cabinet, led a pro-Trump super PAC and is now on the board of the publicly traded Trump Media and Technology Group.
In 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that McMahon paid $5 million in previously unrecorded expenses to the since-dissolved Donald J. Trump Foundation during two of the years Trump appeared on WWE programming.
Trump was definitely balled up with Jeffrey Epstein's island and the horrors that occurred there. Bill Clinton, too. I don't think it takes a huge leap of faith to find that more plausible than not, given all of their histories and attitudes towards women. It's very much assumed that Epstein didn't kill himself, at least not without help. If you do subscribe to that logic, it would certainly seem that he was offed to avoid him giving up information that would damage
someone. I don't find it that bizarre to think that Trump and McMahon had some shady shit going on, too...
So hypothetically, what if they
could link Trump to that sex-trafficking case and perhaps in a round-about way to Epstein. Would
that even dent him in the eyes of the MAGAssholes?