Mark Robinson, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and candidate for Governor, delivers remarks prior to Donald Trump speaking at a campaign event on August 14, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina. | Source: Grant Baldwin / Getty
A Donald Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate who’s been highly critical of the LGBTQ community was linked to two adult websites he used before his political career, including one on which he “enjoyed watching transgender pornography” and another that facilitates marital adultery, according to a pair of bombshell reports.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s Republican nominee for governor, denied the heavily sourced reporting published on Thursday by Politico and CNN, respectively. Robinson spoke out just around the same time that local media reported he was being urged by GOP leaders to drop out of the race for his alleged online activity that took place more than a decade ago.
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According to the Carolina Journal, “Sources with direct knowledge” said that “Robinson is under pressure from staff and members of the Trump campaign to withdraw from the governor’s race.”
That report was followed by one from CNN that uncovered “a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which [Robinson] referred to himself as a ‘black NAZI!’ and expressed support for reinstating slavery.”
According to CNN, “Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a ‘perv.’”
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The comments, which Robinson denies making, predate his entry into politics and current stint as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. They were made under a username that CNN was able to identify as Robinson by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.
Many of Robinson’s comments were gratuitously sexual and lewd in nature. They were made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website that includes a message board. The comments were made under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.
Robinson listed his full name on his profile for Nude Africa, as well as an email address he used on numerous websites across the internet for decades.
Also on Thursday, Politico reported that one of Robinson’s advisers confirmed that “An email address belonging to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was registered on Ashley Madison, a website designed for married people seeking affairs.”
CNN is expected to televise an interview with Robinson on Thursday evening.
Robinson on Thursday said without proof that all of the aforementioned reports were lies devised by his political opponents, including and especially Josh Stein, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina.
Claiming “the news media is at it again,” the gubernatorial candidate said in a video posted on social media vaguely that the “half-truths” being reported “are not the words of Mark Robinson.” He said Stein and his “opponents are desperate to shift the focus here from the substantive issues and focus on what you are concerned with to salacious tabloid trash.”
In case you missed it, Robinson is the same person who in July seemingly called for political violence when he said “some folks need killing” in reference to alleged violent criminals who haven’t yet been granted due process and “liberals” who are simply of a different ideology. Ironically, Trump was grazed in the ear during a failed assassination attempt in Western Pennsylvania eight days later.
That apparent incitement of political violence is part of Robinson’s legacy of being hateful and spreading nonsensical conspiracy theories. He described COVID-19 as a “globalist” conspiracy to destroy Trump; he called members of the LGBTQ+ community “filth” and falsely linked homosexuality to pedophilia; and, of course, he leaned into his role as a “Black friend” to the white-and-aggrieved world of MAGA by suggesting it’s actually Black Americans who owe reparations for slavery.
If history is any indication, Robinson will not be dropping out of the gubernatorial race in which he is polling behind Stein.
Back in October 2021, when he told a North Carolina church congregation that “There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality—any of that filth,” Robinson resisted calls for him to resign.
“Let me tell you plainly right here and right now: I will not back down, I will not be silent, and I will not be bullied into submission,” Robinson said at the time.
Thursday evening is the deadline for gubernatorial candidates to drop out of the race in North Carolina.
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