Donald Trump says Bubba Wallace noose incident was a 'hoax'

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Donald Trump says Bubba Wallace noose incident was a 'hoax' Jul 6, 2020 14:13:31 GMT

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Post by the Scribe on Jul 6, 2020 14:13:31 GMT

It wasn't a hoax by definition. The so called noose was there for a while so there was no plan to deceive. And it was a noose. It just didn't have the intent behind it that some would claim. But who is surprised in today's atmosphere that it was taken that way?

Hoax definition, something intended to deceive or defraud; a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick.

Donald Trump says Bubba Wallace noose incident was a 'hoax'
www.yahoo.com/sports/donald-trump-says-bubba-wallace-noose-incident-was-a-hoax-131824544.html
Liz Roscher
Yahoo SportsJuly 6, 2020, 6:18 AM MST

President Donald Trump has finally weighed in on the Bubba Wallace noose incident, and you’ll be shocked to find out that he doesn’t believe it really happened.

Trump posted a tweet Monday morning calling the whole ordeal a “hoax” that Wallace should apologize for.

One of Wallace’s team members found a noose in his stall at Talladega on June 21, prompting an FBI investigation. Wallace’s fellow NASCAR drivers rallied around him, decrying racism and staging a show of support with Wallace before the race the next day. The FBI investigation concluded that the noose was a garage pull that had been in the garage since 2019, but questions remain about why it was shaped like a noose and how it got to Wallace’s stall.
www.yahoo.com/sports/noose-found-hanging-in-bubba-wallaces-garage-stall-at-talladega-025250453.html

Contrary to Trump’s tweet, the FBI didn’t find any evidence of a hoax. Wallace didn’t even find the noose himself.
www.yahoo.com/sports/nascar-releases-photo-of-noose-in-bubba-wallaces-garage-stall-explains-investigation-that-ended-with-no-charges-171929373.html

Trump has never let facts stop him, though. He also said that NASCAR has experienced a ratings drop since the noose incident and since they banned the confederate flag at races on June 10, and just the opposite is true. Ratings for the first race following the ban were up 104 percent over the comparable race last season. The most recent race, the NASCAR Xfinity Series Pennzoil 150 on July 5, was the most-watched Xfinity series race in three years.
www.yahoo.com/sports/nascar-bans-confederate-flag-from-racetracks-205522266.html
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Donald Trump says Bubba Wallace noose incident was a 'hoax' Jul 6, 2020 22:55:21 GMT

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After a set of divisive speeches over the Independence Day weekend, President Trump is continuing to play to the most extreme factions of his base, tweeting criticisms of NASCAR's only Black driver and the organization's decision to ban the Confederate flag. NBC's Peter Alexander, Yamiche Alcindor, and Anne Gearan join Andrea Mitchell to discuss how the president is leaning into racist rhetoric as a reelection strategy. Aired on 07/06/2020.
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Donald Trump says Bubba Wallace noose incident was a 'hoax' Jul 7, 2020 12:33:29 GMT

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Post by the Scribe on Jul 7, 2020 12:33:29 GMT

President Trump blasts NASCAR and Bubba Wallace in nonsensical, needlessly divisive tweet
www.yahoo.com/sports/president-trump-blasts-nascar-and-bubba-wallace-in-a-nonsensical-and-needlessly-divisive-tweet-143208466.html
Dan Wetzel Columnist
Yahoo SportsJuly 6, 2020, 7:32 AM MST
www.yahoo.com/sports/president-trump-blasts-nascar-and-bubba-wallace-in-a-nonsensical-and-needlessly-divisive-tweet-143208466.html

He also claimed victimhood for Wallace’s fellow drivers and friends on the circuit who stood by the sport’s lone African American driver after a noose was discovered hanging in his garage at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.

The FBI eventually determined the noose was a bizarre happenstance and not a hate crime, but it rattled the sport and sparked a massive, and emotionally moving, outpouring of unity from race teams, competitors, fans and others.

Trump apparently didn’t like that.

He also poked at NASCAR for banning the flying of Confederate flags at its races, making Trump a government official blasting a private company for asserting the freedom to make its own decisions about what its own customers do on its own properties.

All of that came in just one tweet.

Most of it was inaccurate, and designed to inflame and enrage, but hey, it’s 2020.

The grade school punctuation was just an added presidential touch in an effort to make the Black guy the culprit and the white guys the victims and torch a rare moment of harmony, friendship, support and love.

Start here: It wasn’t a hoax. It wasn’t a hate crime, as the FBI later determined, but it wasn’t a hoax either. An actual rope that serves as a garage door pull was discovered in Wallace’s garage stall. It had been tied in the form of a noose.

The noose was real. There were even pictures of it discovered from an October 2019 race, when the garage was used by a different driver. When it was fashioned as a noose, no one could have known the following season Wallace would get the garage — the stalls are assigned based on weekly standings.

Why was the door-pull tied as a noose in 2019? No one knows. Might have been nefarious. It might not. NASCAR had all 29 of its tracks examined and found that in the 1,684 of its garage stalls just 11 had the pull rope tied in any kind of a knot. The one in Stall 4 of Talladega was the only one tied as a noose. Strange. But not a hate crime.

Also not a hoax. Calling it a hoax is a flat-out lie.

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