I’ve ignored this story, because we all knew the way it was going to end. Just like most all the others, as a hoax, as people being over-wrought over something that wasn’t real, that they just saw things the wrong way. The very minute it was noted that the “noose” was attached to the garage door most rational thinking people said “door rope”. Instead of saying something like “I’m so glad that the FBI found that it was not a noose” Bubba has double down
Bubba Wallace defiant, calls rope ‘straight-up noose’ after FBI says no crime occurred
In all his years in auto racing, NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace said Tuesday night, he has never seen anything like what he described as a “straight-up noose†that was being used as a door pull in the garage he was assigned last week at Talladega Speedway in Alabama.
“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 out all the videos and photos of knots being as their evidence, go ahead, but from the evidence that we have – and I have – it’s a straight-up noose.â€
The FBI determined Tuesday that the rope had been hanging in the garage since last year and it wasn’t intended as a hate crime against Wallace.
He said he hadn’t seen the noose himself but had seen photos of it.
“It wasn’t directed at me,†Wallace added, “but it was a noose.â€
So he didn’t actually see it? He literally says he has proof
CNNLOL: Have you seen ropes like that hanging from garages. It’s that fairly typical?
BUBBA WALLACE: Don, the damage I have of what I’ve seen of what was hanging in my garage is not a garage pull. I’ve been racing all my life, we’ve raced out of hundreds of garages that have never had garage pulls like that. So people who want to call it a garage pull and put out videos and photos of knots as their evidence, go ahead. But from the evidence that we have, that I have, it’s a straight-up noose. The FBI has stated it was a noose over and over again. NASCAR leadership has stated that it was a noose. I can confirm that. I actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage, over my car, around my pit crew guys, to confirm that it was a noose. Never seen anything like it. I talked to my crew chief about it. I said, Is this something like — I wanted to make sure we weren’t jumping the gun. And I said this isn’t a knot, this isn’t — and he’s like, Bubba; this isn’t something that can be done within a second of just tying a knot and being on the way. This is something that took time.
Don Lemon forgot to ask for that proof. Let’s see it, Bubba. Because the FBI, which wasted the time of 15 agents on this, said it wasn’t, and NASCAR is saying they are glad it wasn’t. And it wasn’t hanging over the car, it hangs on the side of the door.
You might not the best thing to come out our beloved Detroit. pic.twitter.com/5nxwAMohRy
— Sandy ?? (@RightGlockMom) June 24, 2020
These pulls are tied so they do not slide, so you have a handle. A noose would slide, grabbing fingers. They all have it. Why was the rope cut so no one could see it? In today’s society there is no way a million pictures and videos weren’t taken of it. Essentially, every garage has a “noose.”
I was of the belief that Bubba Wallace was an innocent party in all of this & he was just stating what was reported to him before the FBI conducted an investigation. Now, by doubling down, he’s lost all credibility & is a willing participant in gaslighting all of us. For shame. https://t.co/kfvAzFBUk1
— siraj hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) June 24, 2020
NASCAR has been backed into a really bad corner: they jumped on this early on in defense of Bubba, joining with BLM and SJWs before any sort of investigation. Now they have a driver saying the FBI is full of mule fritters and that all NASCAR fans are racists. NASCAR fans are beyond fanatic, and this will not go over well with them. They will refuse to purchase the products of Bubba’s sponsors. People will contact the companies who are sponsors (BTW, this is already happening with one sponsor, I have some information from my life in the Real World). Sponsors sponsor to make money. If they aren’t making money they pull their sponsorship. How does NASCAR get out of this bind? They’ve dug their hole, they can’t tell Bubba to shut up, they can’t come out and say he’s wrong, yet, they run the risk of alienating fans. Some may think fans are just poor old hicks, but, they spend a lot of money on products, and you have tons of RVs, expensive ones, at every race.
