After a weekend spent stoking division, President Donald Trump on Monday blasted NASCAR for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the sport’s only Black driver, Bubba Wallace, of perpetrating “a hoax” involving a rope shaped like a noose in his garage.
Exploiting racial tensions, Trump suggested Wallace should apologize after one of his crew members discovered the rope in a garage stall they had been assigned to. Federal authorities ruled last month that the rope had been hanging there since at least last October and was not a hate crime. Wallace has maintained the rope had been fashioned into a noose and has said he was saddened by “the despicable act of racism and hatred,” and other Cup Series drivers rallied around him.
“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 tweeted. “That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!”
The tweet came after Trump used a pair of Independence Day speeches to dig deeper into America’s divisions by accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.” The remarks served as a direct appeal to the Republican president’s political base, including many disaffected white voters, with less than four months to go before Election Day.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the president’s decision to wade into the Wallace case, saying in an interview on Fox News Channel that, “The president’s merely pointing out that we’ve got to let facts come out before we jump to judgment.”
Wallace, an Alabama native, has taken an active role in the push for racial equality. He has worn a shirt saying “I Can’t Breathe,” raced with a Black Lives Matter paint scheme in Virginia and successfully lobbied for NASCAR’s Confederate flag ban.
For more than 70 years, the flag was a common and complicated sight at NASCAR races. The series first tried to ban the Confederate flag five years ago but did nothing to enforce the order.
While Trump claimed NASCAR’s ratings are down, they are actually up.
(AP)
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Why do you use these obviously partisan, political propaganda pieces?
I agree with AZ. The AP has always had strong bias in all of their reporting, but this article sound more like a Biden ad than news. Time for YWN to find a new news source.
The second president of the confederacy
ALL so-called “noose” incidents are hoaxes. It is simply not something that happens.
After a weekend spent stoking division
That’s a lie too. The President’s speech at Mouth Rushmore was one of the best he’s ever given. It was a masterpiece. The only people who could possibly object to it are enemies of the USA. Which nowadays includes the entire Democrat Party. And it’s supporters here on YWN.
another garbage piece brought to you by leftist libtard demonrat ap
NASCAR concluded, I think correctly, that the noose was not aimed at Bubba Wallace. But who was it “aimed” at, or what was its purpose? I think it was aimed at all black people. What is funny, or functional, about a noose? Nothing funny, but good way to hang people. That noose was an allusion to hanging, and there was lots of hanging of black people between the end of the Civil War and the federal laws of the 1960’s that gave the federal government the power to prosecute hate crimes that breach black people’s civil rights. There were nooses delivered to professors at some universities by people who disagreed with their views on racial issues. It carries a death threat.
Would anyone like to see a container of Zyklon-B attached to the door of a synagogue? Not so funny.
Hey huju, the “noose” was a handle for garage door opener. spreading big lies long enough will not make a truth. Are all Marxists paranoid and delusional like you are?
The “noose” was a looped rope attached to the garage door to assist in pulling the door down. The media mouthpiece of the democrat party will do anything for a story that promotes dividing and ultimately conquering the US.