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NASCAR famous individual Bubba Wallace signed an endorsement possess Beats by Dre.
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The announcement came after Wallace modified into a purpose of President Donald Trump on Twitter. Trump falsely accused Wallace of staging a hoax in his storage at Talladega Superspeedway and asked whether the driver had apologized:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of these big NASCAR drivers & officers who came to his wait on, stood by his facet, & had been willing to sacrifice every thing for him, fully to search out out that your total component modified into correct one other HOAX? That & Flag dedication has caused lowest rankings EVER!
Wallace addressed Trump’s tweet hours later:
NASCAR launched June 22 it had launched an investigation after discovering a rope tied like a noose within the storage stall of Wallace’s team. The FBI regarded into the matter as smartly and chanced on that the rope had been tied in that style since no longer no longer as much as remaining October, smartly sooner than Wallace would bear been assigned the storage.
Many on the origin wondered whether Wallace modified into the victim of retaliation after he had called for NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag from its occasions.
Speaking with newshounds remaining month, NASCAR President Steve Phelps defended how the group on the origin handled the ache due to officers idea on the time “one in every of our drivers had been threatened.”
“Anybody who would advocate this modified into a hoax, I derive in my idea offensive,” Phelps stated, per ESPN’s Marty Smith. “I do no longer know the method folks deem that methodology.”
