Republican Mark Robinson denies making racist, sexual posts on porn site

Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee campaigning for politician of North Carolina, says he’s staying successful the contention contempt a scathing study from CNN that helium referred to himself arsenic a “black NAZI” and wrote astir “peeping” connected girls successful showers connected a pornography website’s connection board.

Robinson denies making the graphic comments, calling them “tabloid trash.”

“Let maine reassure you: The things that you volition spot successful that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson. You cognize my words, you cognize my character, and you cognize that I person been wholly transparent successful this contention and before,” Robinson said successful a video posted to X, formerly Twitter.

As a adjacent state of Donald Trump, Robinson’s ungraded threatens to harm the erstwhile president’s run for the Oval Office. His Democratic opponent, Vice-President Kamala Harris, is reportedly seizing connected the infinitesimal by launching a new TV ad that includes Trump’s nationalist praise for Robinson.

Robinson has a past of making inflammatory comments, including expressing enactment for a full prohibition connected abortions and stating that transgender women should beryllium arrested for utilizing women’s bathrooms. However, the comments that CNN reports helium made years agone connected a pornography website overgarment a precise antithetic picture. (In 2022, Robinson expressed regret for paying for his now-wife to person an abortion.)

(Note: Global News has not independently confirmed that Robinson wrote and posted the messages. CNN says it verified that the porn tract relationship belonged to Robinson by comparing usernames, a known email code and his afloat name. The comments were allegedly posted from 2008 to 2012, earlier Robinson entered authorities successful 2020 erstwhile helium was elected arsenic North Carolina’s lieutenant governor.)

What the posts said

The alleged comments were nether the username minisoldr connected a porn tract called Nude Africa. Robinson has utilized the minisoldr moniker connected aggregate different online sites, CNN reports.

Despite his caller anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson allegedly wrote that helium likes watching transgender pornography.

“I similar watching tr-nny connected miss porn! That’s f–king hot! It takes the antheral retired portion leaving the antheral in!” Robinson allegedly wrote. “And yea I’m a ‘perv’ too!”

On apical of that, contempt Robinson’s interest astir the information of women’s bathrooms, helium allegedly admitted to peeping connected girls successful the ablution astatine his precocious schoolhouse erstwhile helium was 14.

“I came to a spot that was a dormant extremity but had 2 large vent covers implicit it! It conscionable truthful happened it overlooked the showers! I sat determination for astir an hr and watched arsenic respective girls came successful and showered,” Robinson reportedly wrote connected Nude Africa.

“I went peeping again the adjacent morning,” the station continues. “But aft that I went backmost the ladder was locked! So those 2 times wherever (sic) the lone times I got to bash it! Ahhhhh memories!!!!”

CNN writes it lone published a tiny information of Robinson’s alleged comments, fixed the graphic quality of the posts.

On the taxable of abortion, Robinson allegedly wrote that helium doesn’t attraction if celebrities get abortions: “I don’t care. I conscionable wanna spot the enactment tape!”

Robinson besides allegedly called Martin Luther King Jr. a “f–king commie bastard.” Notably, Trump has praised Robinson by comparing him to the civilian rights leader, calling him “Martin Luther King connected steroids.”

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Furthermore, Robinson allegedly expressed his enactment for the instrumentality of slavery successful his online comments, and wrote “I’m a achromatic NAZI!”

“Slavery is not bad. Some radical request to beryllium slaves. I privation they would bring it (slavery) back. I would surely bargain a few,” helium wrote, adding that helium would similar Adolf Hitler arsenic a person implicit erstwhile U.S. president Barack Obama.

Fallout of the scandal

Recent polls of North Carolina voters amusement Trump and Harris locked successful a adjacent race. The aforesaid polls amusement the Democratic nominee for North Carolina governor, Josh Stein, with a astir 10-point pb implicit Robinson.

Stein and his allies person repeatedly cited a Facebook post from 2019 successful which Robinson said termination successful America was astir “killing the kid due to the fact that you weren’t liable capable to support your skirt down.”

The Stein run said successful a connection aft the study that “North Carolinians already cognize Mark Robinson is wholly unfit to beryllium Governor.”

The North Carolina Republican Party defended Robinson successful a connection connected X, saying that contempt his denial of CNN’s report, it wouldn’t “stop the Left from trying to demonize him via idiosyncratic attacks.” The enactment referred to economical and migration policies arsenic the predominant predetermination issues North Carolinians volition attraction much astir instead.

“The Left needs this predetermination to beryllium a property contest, not a argumentation contention due to the fact that if voters focused connected policy, Republicans triumph connected Election Day,” the enactment said.

However, not each Republicans are connected the aforesaid leafage astir Robinson.

Scott Lassiter, a Republican authorities Senate campaigner successful a Raleigh-area plaything district, called connected Robinson to “suspend his run to let a prime campaigner to decorativeness this race.”

On Capitol Hill, U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, seat of the House GOP’s run committee, told reporters the report’s findings were “concerning.” Robinson, helium said, has immoderate reassuring to bash successful the state.

— With files from The Associated Press