Republican Mark Robinson denies making racist, sexual posts on porn site
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Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee campaigning for governor of North Carolina, says he's staying in the race despite a scathing report from CNN.
Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee campaigning for governor of North Carolina, says he’s staying in the race despite a scathing report from CNN that he referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and wrote about “peeping” on girls in showers on a pornography website’s message board.
Robinson denies making the graphic comments, calling them “tabloid trash.”
“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,” Robinson said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter.
As a close ally of Donald Trump, Robinson’s scandal threatens to harm the former president’s campaign for the Oval Office. His Democratic opponent, Vice-President Kamala Harris, is reportedly seizing on the moment by launching a new TV ad that includes Trump’s public praise for Robinson.
Robinson has a history of making inflammatory comments, including expressing support for a total ban on abortions and stating that transgender women should be arrested for using women’s bathrooms. However, the comments that CNN reports he made years ago on a pornography website paint a very different picture. (In 2022, Robinson expressed regret for paying for his now-wife to have an abortion.)
(Note: Global News has not independently confirmed that Robinson wrote and posted the messages. CNN says it verified that the porn site account belonged to Robinson by comparing usernames, a known email address and his full name. The comments were allegedly posted from 2008 to 2012, before Robinson entered politics in 2020 when he was elected as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor.)
The alleged comments were under the username minisoldr on a porn site called Nude Africa. Robinson has used the minisoldr moniker on multiple other online sites, CNN reports.
Despite his recent anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson allegedly wrote that he likes watching transgender pornography.
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