So, @BubbaWallace didn’t report the noose, never even saw the noose. NASCAR President Steve Phelps informed Bubba about it, hours after it was found— shortly before telling the media in a statement.

This was the “garage pull” NASCAR said it found in (only) the 43 garage https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1280117571874951170
From @BubbaWallace on June 24 “I want to say how relieved I am the investigation revealed this wasn’t what we feared it was. I want to thank NASCAR & the FBI for acting swiftly & treating this as a real threat. We’ll gladly take a little embarrassment over the alternatives”
Here’s the full statement Bubba Wallace posted on 6/24.

https://twitter.com/bubbawallace/status/1275844030144950272?s=21
Here was nascar’s statement from 6/23 on the “garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose”

https://twitter.com/dianneg/status/1275543606258995200?s=21 https://twitter.com/dianneg/status/1275543606258995200
NASCAR President Steve Phelps also said they checked the garage area and no other stall had a rope tied like that.

Phelps said NASCAR then swept 1,600+ garage stalls at 29 tracks and found 11 total pull down ropes tied in knots, of those only that one was tied as a noose
Here was the FBI statement (in which still calls the rope a noose) released at the conclusion of its investigation.

https://twitter.com/dianneg/status/1275542593774989312?s=21 https://twitter.com/dianneg/status/1275542593774989312
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