Another Jussie Smollet? Almost.
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace had alleged on Sunday that a racist noose was found hanging on his garage stall door at the Talladega Superspeedway.
Left-wing media, NASCAR and democrat politicians all rushed to condemn the 'imaginary racist' who was responsible.
NASCAR legend and Wallace’s team owner Richard Petty was enraged. "I’m enraged by the act of someone placing a noose in the garage stall of my race team,” Petty, 82, said in a statement. “There is absolutely no place in our sport or our society for racism. This filthy act serves as a reminder of how far we still have to go to eradicate racial prejudice and it galvanizes my resolve to use the resources of the Richard Petty Motorsports to create change."
The race at Talladega Superspeedway was postponed and dozens of drivers pushed Wallace’s car to the front of the field before the race took place Monday in an act of solidarity.
The only Black American NASCAR driver, Wallace himself said, "I’m proud to stand where I’m at. … This sport is changing. The deal that happened [Saturday] I wanted to show whoever it was, you are not going to take away my smile.”
Wallace also attacked skeptics who didn't immediately believe the noose story. “It’s simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for instead of trying to listen and understand what’s going on,” he said on ABC's show “The View.”
Well after an investigation, the FBI just announced the whole incident was a hoax. The skeptics were right.
FBI said in a statement Tuesday, “Although the noose is now known to have been in garage number 4 in 2019, nobody could have known Mr. Wallace would be assigned to garage number 4 last week.”
Basically FBI sent fifteen special agents wasting tax payers money to investigate a hoax -- a normal garage pull rope that some crew member for Richard Petty Motorsports[which represents Wallace] found to suddenly be racist!
NASCAR also put out its own statement, "The FBI has completed its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime."
Many initial skeptics understandably took to social media to issue their "I Told You So's," and bring up another notorious hoax, the Jussie Smollett 'Trump supporters attacked me' hoax.
Conservative journalist Michelle Malkin exclaimed on twitter, "It was all #FakeNoose. TOLD YOU."
Breitbart's Allum Bhokari posted on Gab "Statues are being town down, churches are being set on fire, cops are being shot, stores are being looted, people are being attacked in their homes and on the street, Republicans are capitulating, anarcho-communist enclaves are being set up, the White House is under daily siege, and the FBI sent 15 agents to investigate a fake noose at a NASCAR game that turned out to be a garage pull."
Ashley StClair tweeted, "Congratulations to Jussie Smollett for finding his long lost brother, Bubba Wallace."