SBA nominee McMahon’s bout with bankruptcy

By Sean Higgins

Published January 24, 2017 6:41pm ET

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SBA nominee McMahon’s bout with bankruptcy — "We lost our home. My car was repossessed in the driveway," she tells Senate committee. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) | Alex Brandon

World Wresting Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee to head the Small Business Administration, told a Senate committee Tuesday that she knew a lot about the financial strains that small businesses face because she had gone through a bankruptcy herself.

Left unstated was that the debt apparently involved promoting an event by 1970s’ daredevil stuntman Evel Knievel.

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