Trump calls for Bubba Wallace to apologize, takes swipe at NASCAR
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President Trump on Monday lashed out at NASCAR and questioned why Bubba Wallace, the auto racing company's only Black driver, hasn't apologized after the highly publicized investigation over a rope found in his garage that, Trump claimed, turned out to be a hoax.
“Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX?” Trump wrote on Twitter Monday morning. “That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!”
The incident last month at the Talladega SuperSpeedway involving the rope in his garage appeared to be the result of a misunderstanding and not an intentional effort to put a noose in his area. Wallace himself had never seen the rope — it was reported by another NASCAR employee.
After the FBI went to inspect the situation, the bureau determined it was a garage door pull rope and had been hanging in the garage assigned to Wallace since at least October, when no one could’ve known Wallace’s team would be assigned to it.
But before it was determined to be a pull rope, the entire NASCAR family showed its support for Wallace, with all of his fellow drivers and their crews standing behind him in pit lane before the Geico 500.
Wallace was initially defiant over the FBI’s findings, before accepting their determination and saying he was “relieved” the noose-styled rope had not been targeted at him.
Shortly after the FBI’s determination, Wallace told CNN’s Don Lemon the rope was a “straight-up noose” and he had never seen anything like it.
“I’ve been racing all of my life,” Wallace told CNN's Don Lemon. “We've raced out of hundreds of garages that never had garage pulls like that. So people that want to call it a garage pull and put ou... (Read more)
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