N.C. Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Robinson’s Disturbing Porn Site Comments Reportedly Resurface: ‘I’m a Black NAZI!’
The state's current lieutenant governor allegedly made comments more than a decade ago that included "peeping" on women and wanting to reinstate slavery, according to a CNN investigative report
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North Carolina's controversial Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson allegedly expressed support for reinstating slavery and called himself a “black NAZI” on a pornographic website’s message board more than a decade ago, according to a CNN investigative report.
Robinson, who is currently the state's lieutenant governor, also called himself a “perv” and wrote that he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, according to the messages obtained by CNN, which were verified after the news organization matched “a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.”
Robinson, 56, has made headlines in recent months for his incendiary comments related to women, the LGBTQ+ community, school shooting survivors and Jewish people.
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CNN only listed a portion of Robinson’s alleged comments, made on the pornographic website Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012, given their “graphic nature,” the outlet said.
Robinson’s comments on the website, in which he allegedly said he had an affinity for watching transgender sex, are seemingly at odds with his rabidly conservative perspective.
Referencing transgender pornstars, he said, "That’s f---ing hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” according to CNN. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is running for governor as a RepublicanAbout a half-hour before CNN’s story broke, Robinson released a video statement on X, calling the story “salacious tabloid trash.”
“Guys, the news media is at it again,” Robinson said. “My opponent is at it again. You all have seen the half-truths and outright lies of Josh Stein on these ads over and over again. And now a story, leaked by him, is appearing now. Let me reassure you the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson. You know my words, you know my character, and you know that I have been completely transparent in this race and before.”
He continued, “Folks, this race right now, our opponents are desperate to shift the focus here from the substantive issues and focus what you are concerned with to salacious tabloid trash. We cannot allow that to happen. And folks we’ve seen this type of stuff in the past as well.”
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Robinson then compared the CNN story and its implications to an infamous quote from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
“Clarence Thomas famously once said he was the victim of high-tech lynching. Well it looks like Mark Robinson is too by a man who refuses to stand on stage and debate me about the real issues that affect you. Instead, they want to focus on salacious tabloid lies. We’re not going to let them do that. We are staying in this race, we are in it to win it, and we know that with your help we will."
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Earlier on Thursday, the conservative publication The Carolina Journal published a story in which it cited sources who claimed the Trump campaign was pressuring Robinson to drop out of the race.
Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris are in a tightly contested race to win the state, and the same polls show Stein holding a 10-point lead over Robinson, according to the Associated Press.
The deadline to withdraw from the race is late Thursday night, per a North Carolina law which stipulates that a candidate can do so no later than the day before the first absentee ballots requested by military and overseas voters are distributed, which begins Friday, Sept. 20.
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