Tucker Carlson attacks Bubba Wallace after noose in stall deemed not a hate crime
On Tucker Carlson Tonight Wednesday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson attacked NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, the first full-time Black driver to race in the Cup Series since 1971, after the FBI concluded that the noose found in Wallace’s garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend was not a hate crime. It turns out the rope, which undoubtedly was fashioned into a noose, had been there since 2019 and was used as a garage door pull rope.
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TUCKER CARLSON: The noose you heard so much about hanging in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace's garage turned out to be what almost every other recent noose turned out to be-- not a noose at all. Even after we discovered this, last night on CNN, Bubba Wallace tried to keep the outrage going.
KYLIE MAR: On Wednesday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson attacked NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace after the FBI concluded that the noose found in Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend was not a hate crime, because it had been there for months. Speaking with CNN's Don Lemon on Tuesday, Wallace said that even if he wasn't the target of a hate crime, the rope was still clearly tied into a noose. Carlson disagreed.
TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, it wasn't a straight-up noose. It was a straight-up garage door pull. And today, Wallace sort of admitted that. He said the noose wasn't what we feared it was. He may have been deeply disappointed to learn that, and he can no longer pose as a victim.
KYLIE MAR: Earlier on Wednesday, Wallace released a statement on Twitter in which he said, "I think we'll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been." And also on Wednesday, Wallace told "The Daily Show's" Trevor Noah he was expecting some people to react as Carlson did.
BUBBA WALLACE: I knew that this was going to flip to the negative side and--
TREVOR NOAH: Right.
BUBBA WALLACE: --and all of that side of everything was just going to come flowing out, because people say it's a hoax, comparing me--
TREVOR NOAH: Yeah.
BUBBA WALLACE: --to Jussie, you know, Smollett. Like, I mean, just outrageous stuff.
