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WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; After a weekend spent stoking division, President Donald Trump on Monday went after NASCAR&rsquo;s only Black driver and criticized its decision to ban the Confederate flag at its races and venues.
				Exploiting racial tensions, Trump wrongly accused Bubba Wallace of perpetrating &ldquo;a hoax&rdquo; after one of his crew members discovered a rope shaped like a noose in a garage stall they had been assigned to. Federal authorities ruled last month that the rope had been hanging there since at least last October and was not a hate crime. Wallace has maintained the rope had been fashioned into a noose.
				&ldquo;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?&rdquo; Trump tweeted. &ldquo;That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!&rdquo;
				The tweet came after Trump used a pair of Independence Day speeches to dig deeper into America&rsquo;s divisions by accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a &ldquo;merciless campaign to wipe out our history.&rdquo; The remarks served as a direct appeal to the Republican president&rsquo;s political base, including many disaffected white voters, with less than four months to go before Election Day.
				White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany defended the president&rsquo;s decision to wade into the Wallace case, saying in an interview on Fox News Channel that, &ldquo;The president&rsquo;s merely pointing out that we&rsquo;ve got to let facts come out before we jump to judgment.&rdquo;
				Wallace, an Alabama native, has taken an active role in the push for racial equality. He has worn a shirt saying &ldquo;I Can&rsquo;t Breathe,&rdquo; raced with a Black Lives Matter paint scheme in Virginia and successfully lobbied for NASCAR&rsquo;s Confederate flag ban.
				For more than 70 years, the flag was a common and complicated sight at NASCAR races. The series first tried to ban the Confederate flag five years ago but did nothing to enforce the order.
				While Trump claimed NASCAR&rsquo;s ratings are down, they are actually up.

Trump lashes out at NASCAR, Bubba Wallace over flag, rope