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NASCAR distances itself from Donald Trump after remarks
ABC ^ | Jul 4, 2015 | BOB POCKRASS via ESPN

Posted on 08/26/2017 8:53:44 AM PDT by conservative98

One of the biggest NASCAR sponsors lobbied to have the event moved. Camping World Chairman and CEO Marcus Lemonis wrote in a letter dated for Tuesday that neither he nor anyone from Camping World would participate in an event at any Trump property "due to recent and ongoing blatantly bigoted and racist comments from Donald Trump in regards to immigrants of the United States."

Trump has made several comments about immigrants while on the campaign trail.

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," Trump said when announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination last month. "They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."

An immigrant from Lebanon, Lemonis has seen success as the owner of Camping World and other businesses. He is the star of the CNBC show "The Profit" where he invests in struggling businesses.

"Our company will not stand to support any person or organization that associates with such beliefs, and we feel strongly about distancing ourselves from any negative and discriminatory comments made against any gender, ethnicity, age group or so forth," Lemonis wrote. "I would hope that the entire NASCAR organization would agree with my sentiments."

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Flashback to the primary. Marcus Lemonis' recent comments are nothing new. Marcus was running his mouth about Trump being a "racist" back then as well.

People. Process. Product. But no Trump or Trump supporters. Shop elsewhere.


1 posted on 08/26/2017 8:53:44 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Isn’t this old news?


2 posted on 08/26/2017 8:55:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: conservative98

Blah blah blah


3 posted on 08/26/2017 8:55:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: conservative98
Wasn't he the CEO who said that he didn't want people who voted for and/or supported President Trump to shop at his businesses?

How's that going for him?

4 posted on 08/26/2017 8:56:02 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: conservative98

Goodbye NASCAR, I hardly knew ye


5 posted on 08/26/2017 8:56:14 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: conservative98

Why not go back to Lebanon and run you empire from there?

You took advantage of our system and so don’t bad mouth it.

Just go.


6 posted on 08/26/2017 8:56:24 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: conservative98

NASCAR is choosing the NFL route to oblivion.

Who do they think goes to NASCAR races?


7 posted on 08/26/2017 8:56:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be called liberalism." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: conservative98

I don’t think NASCAR can afford to alienate any of their remaining fan base


8 posted on 08/26/2017 8:56:50 AM PDT by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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To: conservative98

NASCAR has become left-wing. Attendance is down. I know NASCAR fans who aren’t anymore.


9 posted on 08/26/2017 8:57:12 AM PDT by CodeToad (Victorious warriors WIN first, then go to war! Go TRUMP!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s why it says flashback. Lemnois is in the news now because he says his remarks about Chancellorsville were taken out of context. But he has been saying this crap since at least the primary in 2015 as shown here.


10 posted on 08/26/2017 8:57:16 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Sacajaweau

Remember the “ no ‘rebel’ flags” at nascar events push? Looks like nascar will be trying to win over their blm fans now. Buy bye nascar.


11 posted on 08/26/2017 8:57:18 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: conservative98

1. You company is about to lose 75% of its customers. Liberal snowflakes don’t camp or hike in the woods.

2. ILLEGAL immigration you dolt.


12 posted on 08/26/2017 8:57:43 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: conservative98

What a misleading headline ABC!! Nascar DID NOT distance itself from Trump. Camping World did and they are paying a price for it.

These little intentional lies add up to validate why MSM is called FAKE NEWS! They treat the people like idiots.


13 posted on 08/26/2017 8:57:58 AM PDT by aragona (Truth always. America first. God given.)
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To: conservative98

*Charlottesville.


14 posted on 08/26/2017 8:58:32 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: rktman

What the heck? do Negroes go to Nascar races in big numbers??? What the heck? Bend over backwards to prove you are liberal to people who aren’t your customers anyway??

Reminds me of how some activists bitch about McDonald’s and other fast food places. They work to get them to change the food, allegedly make it healthier. But those people never went to McDonald’s in the first place, and don’t go to McDonald’s after they make changes in their food to make the activists happy.


15 posted on 08/26/2017 9:00:06 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I don’t think NASCAR can afford to alienate any more of their remaining fan base.

Needed a little fix .....

16 posted on 08/26/2017 9:00:28 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Time better spend, watch this video!!

CNN’s Hurricane Harvey Insanity Off The Charts Crazy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDIQ2BjR2mQ


17 posted on 08/26/2017 9:00:54 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: conservative98

NASCAR must think their fan base is in the northeast. What a bunch of schmucks.


18 posted on 08/26/2017 9:01:19 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: aragona

I’m glad someone noticed that, was just going to say the same thing.


19 posted on 08/26/2017 9:01:36 AM PDT by Defiant (It's not antifa, it's actually antifafa. Antifa Fascists.)
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To: CodeToad

Any sport not deemed diverse enough will be ruined, just to make the SJWs happy.


20 posted on 08/26/2017 9:01:38 AM PDT by GnuThere
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