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After a weekend spent stoking division, President Donald Trump on Monday went after NASCAR’s only Black driver, Bubba Wallace, and criticized its decision to ban the Confederate flag at its races and venues. Exploiting racial tensions, Trump wrongly accused Wallace of perpetrating “a hoax” after one of his crew members discovered a rope shaped like …

DANBURY, N.C. — The owner of a North Carolina racetrack advertised “Bubba Rope” for sale in a social media marketplace days after NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, who is Black, announced a noose had been found in his garage at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Mike Fulp, the owner of the half-mile 311 Speedway in Stokes County, …

It certainly looks like a noose. NASCAR released a photo Thursday of the rope that set off a firestorm, first assumed to be a racist symbol, then determined to be a misunderstanding. But while the rope may have been used to pull shut a garage door, it was tied in such a way that it …

On Tuesday, the FBI determined that an alleged “noose” found in the garage stall of NASCAR’s only black driver, Bubba Wallace, had been in the garage stall since at least October 2019 and NASCAR said in a statement that the “noose” was actually a garage door pull. Despite the findings determining the alleged “noose” was …

Though the FBI concluded that a noose found in driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega Superspeedway was not a hate crime aimed at NASCAR’s most prominent black driver, official NASCAR videos reviewed by The Post show multiple nooses being used as garage-door pulls at the same racetrack in 2017 — and at least one in …

Bubba Wallace has become one of the most famous faces in sports over the past two weeks as he led the movement for NASCAR to ban the use of the Confederate flag, and even more so since a noose was found in his garage stall on Saturday, which on Tuesday was revealed to have been …

Reverend Al Sharpton on Wednesday called for further investigation into the “noose” found in African American NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage despite the FBI’s determination that the object was not put there to target him and had been present since 2019. The FBI said on Tuesday, “The noose found in garage number 4 [at Talladega …

Nascar driver Bubba Wallace on Tuesday night defended his and the sport’s reaction to the “noose” found in his garage in light of FBI findings that the rope was actually a garage door pull. The FBI issued a statement earlier Tuesday that the pull rope was simply fashioned like a noose and that video evidence …

The FBI has determined that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime and that a pull rope fashioned like a noose had been on a garage door at Talladega Superspeedway since as early as October, NASCAR said Tuesday. “The FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms, that the garage door …

Here we go again… As reliably as children being fooled by Santa Claus, the news media has once again been duped by an obviously false story that fit their favorite narrative about race. Last year, it was the Jussie Smollett fiasco, on which I was one of the first media commentators to call out as …