A bombshell report about North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, was printed Thursday by CNN. Robinson reportedly posted quite a few disturbing statements on the message board of pornographic web site Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012.
“I’m a black NAZI!” Robinson reportedly wrote in October 2010. He adopted this up with one other put up the identical month, saying, “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few.”
The person whom Donald Trump referred to as “better than Martin Luther King” additionally had some ideas for the porn boards concerning the civil rights chief, calling King a “commie bastard,” “worse than a maggot,” a “phony,” and a “huckster.”
And after one other discussion board person accused Robinson of being within the Ku Klux Klan, Robinson reportedly responded, “I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer K–n!” utilizing a racial slur instead of King’s surname.
CNN experiences that he additionally usually used slurs to explain homosexual folks, Jews, and Muslims.
Robinson additionally reportedly wrote, “I like watching tr-nny on girl porn! That’s fucking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in! And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
Robinson has been publicly merciless in statements about transgender folks, telling former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka on a podcast in 2023, “The transgender movement in this country, if there’s a movement in this country that is demonic and that is full of spirit of the antichrist, it is the transgender movement.”
The intensive CNN report offers detailed visible proof that deftly connects Robinson’s Nude Africa profile to accounts on websites like YouTube, Fb, the positioning previously referred to as Twitter, and Pinterest. Authors Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck additionally write that they’re “reporting only a small portion of Robinson’s comments on the website given their graphic nature.”
Hints concerning the CNN piece leaked out early Thursday, adopted by further experiences that Republicans had been calling on Robinson to withdraw his candidacy. Thursday night is the deadline to withdraw from the state’s gubernatorial race. The Carolina Journal reported that Donald Trump’s marketing campaign has barred Robinson from displaying up at occasions.
Karen Brinson Bell, who heads North Carolina’s elections board, advised the Washington Put up that even when Robinson does withdraw earlier than the deadline on Thursday evening, his title would nonetheless doubtless seem on absentee, navy, and abroad ballots. “To remove a name from the ballot at this time would be an insurmountable hurdle,” she mentioned.
It appears Bell needn’t fear about it, although. Forward of the report’s launch, Robinson denied its findings in a video launched on his social media accounts. “Those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” he mentioned, including, “Clarence Thomas famously once said he was the victim of a high-tech lynching. Well, it looks like Mark Robinson is, too.”
Whether or not evoking corrupt Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas and his alleged sexual harassment of Anita Hill will work on North Carolina voters stays to be seen.
That is solely the most recent scandal to plague Robinson’s political profession. He has routinely made misogynistic, homophobic, and typically hate-filled statements. Robinson received nationwide consideration as a Fox Information favourite prepared to endorse nearly any far-right conspiracy idea on the market, together with that former first girl Michelle Obama is secretly a person and that singer Beyoncé’s music is “satanic.”
At a Mothers for Liberty occasion in 2023, he mentioned People wanted to learn extra writing and quotations of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
In 2021, Robinson advised The East Carolinian that after a lady was pregnant, “it’s not [her] body anymore.” And through this election cycle, Robinson tried to melt his viciously anti-abortion stance, even admitting that his spouse had an abortion, whereas nonetheless condemning everybody else that wishes the appropriate to think about it.
Additionally in 2021, he dismissed requires him to resign as lieutenant governor after he characterised the LGBTQ+ group as “filth.” And he adopted that up by evaluating being homosexual to “what the cows leave behind.”
Josh Stein, North Carolina’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, has maintained a stable lead in opposition to Robinson within the polls. And on Wednesday, Stein launched an announcement saying he had no plans to debate the GOP nominee.
“Mark Robinson has spent his entire public life spewing hate, lying about his record, and spreading dangerous and false conspiracy theories. A debate would only serve to legitimize him and provide a platform for his vile and dangerous rhetoric, and we won’t be part of that.”
It’s unlikely Stein’s place has modified.
