From Cabinet to Campaign, McMahon Becomes Trump’s Big Money Boss

McMahon chairs official Trump Super-PAC, America First Action
Trump has anointed group in bid to steer money from other PACs

Linda McMahon during an interview on Sept. 5.Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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By Josh Wingrove and Jordan Fabian

September 6, 2019 at 8:00 AM UTC

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Linda McMahon is President Donald Trump’s anointed fundraising chief. And she wants all deep-pocketed Republicans to know it.

The one-time wrestling executive left her position as Trump’s head of the Small Business Administration to become the chair of America First Action, a super-political action committee working to get Trump re-elected in 2020.