Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson dropped his libel lawsuit towards CNN on Friday and mentioned he’s leaving public life, marking the ultimate chapter for the disgraced Republican politician who was caught posting racist and sexually specific musings on a porn web site.
Robinson was suing CNN over its bombshell report throughout his 2024 bid for governor which revealed that in a sequence of posts on a pornographic web site discussion board, Robinson described himself as a “black Nazi,” made racist slurs towards Martin Luther King Jr., and mentioned the one purpose he wasn’t within the Ku Klux Klan is as a result of he’s black they usually wouldn’t let him in. Robinson made the vile feedback on an internet site referred to as Nude Africa, the place he additionally admitted to watching “tr-nny on girl porn,” “peeping” on ladies in public showers, and dishonest on his spouse together with his sister-in-law.
In a sequence of posts on X, Robinson continued to say that CNN lied within the report that broke the story of his disturbing web postings, though he by no means supplied any proof that the report was false.
However Robinson mentioned that persevering with his lawsuit can be too expensive and {that a} “continued political persecution of my family and loved ones is a cost I am unwilling to continue to bear.”
“The words of our Savior, along with the earthly reality that costly litigation and political gamesmanship by my detractors makes clear that continuing to pursue retribution from CNN is a futile effort,” Robinson wrote. “That is why I have asked Jesse Binnall and his legal team to terminate any continued attempt to litigate with CNN on my or my family’s behalf.”
Robinson added that he has no plans to main North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, who’s up for reelection in 2026.
“I will not run next year, nor do I have plans to seek elected office in the future. Until we change the hearts and souls of those inside the political arena, it is unlikely the political process itself will undergo any meaningful change,” Robinson mentioned.
Robinson handily misplaced his bid for North Carolina governor in November to Democrat Josh Stein, whilst Donald Trump gained the state.
CNN’s report prompted Robinson’s help amongst Republicans to break down and his marketing campaign employees to flee en masse.
Trump, who had praised Robinson as “Martin Luther King on steroids,” distanced himself from the contaminated candidate after the CNN report on the Nude Africa posts.
After all, Trump had embraced Robinson regardless of understanding concerning the different horrifying feedback he had already made, together with when Robinson denied that Adolf Hitler killed hundreds of thousands of Jews within the Holocaust, mentioned 9/11 was an “inside job,” that the music business leads individuals to Devil, and that LGBTQ+ individuals are “filth.”
Nonetheless, we might all be formally accomplished coping with Robinson. Good riddance.
