#NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace denounces ‘HATE from the POTUS’

NASCAR’s only black driver Bubba Wallace on Monday denounced “HATE from the POTUS” after President Trump suggested that Wallace apologize for saying he was the victim of a hate crime.

Wallace’s teammates this year reported an apparent noose in his garage stall that the FBI later determined was not a hate crime and had been in place there since October 2019. He was not the source of the original claim.

Wallace’s response to Trump came in a tweeted statement that he addressed to “the next generation and little ones following my foot steps.”

“All the haters are doing is elevating your voice and platform to much greater heights,” Wallace wrote, calling for people to “always deal with the hate being thrown at you with LOVE!”

“Even when it’s HATE from the POTUS.. Love wins,” Wallace wrote.

In a Monday morning tweet, Trump wrote: “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? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!”

At a Monday afternoon press conference, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she spoke to Trump and that he clarified he wasn’t taking a position on the display of Confederate flags at races — which NASCAR has banned — and that he was expressing a generalized concern about a rush to judgment in cases of alleged hate crimes.

“I think it’s important that we point out the fact that there was no hate crime. The FBI concluded that. President Trump was merely saying that Mr. Wallace should agree with that consensus,” McEnany said.