Before CNN dropped its bombshell, North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson lashed out at the allegations.
“Let me reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” the current lieutenant governor said in a social media post.
K-File provided screenshots as evidence to back his theory that Robinson made the posts and accounts.
It’s not definite proof, but it doesn’t help Robinson, who has faced other allegations.
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.CNN is reporting only a small portion of Robinson’s comments on the website given their graphic nature.
The comments include becoming aroused as an adult when he remembers “secretly ‘peeping’ on women in public gym showers as a 14-year-old.”
Robinson allegedly professed his love for transgender pornography, calling himself a “perv.”
Back in 2010, Robinson supposedly called himself a “black Nazi.”
He also allegedly wanted slavery to come back: “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few.”
CNN asked Robinson about the report on Tuesday, but he didn’t respond.
Robinson and his campaign responded today:
“This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me,” Robinson said. Presented with the litany of evidence connecting him with the minisoldr user name on Nude Africa, Robinson said, “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”CNN first reached out to Robinson Tuesday morning with evidence connecting him to the comments on Nude Africa. It took his campaign two days to respond and issue a denial.During his interview with CNN, Robinson repeatedly said the issues that faced North Carolinians were more important than what he called “tabloid trash,” and he steered the conversation toward attacking his opponent in the race, Democrat Josh Stein, the state’s attorney general.“We are not getting out of this race. There are people who are counting on us to win this race,” Robinson said.
Current Attorney General Josh Stein, Robinson’s Democrat opponent, leads in polls and has a clear road to victory.
Sources told The Carolina Journal that Stein’s “campaign leaked the story to CNN and local Raleigh news outlet, WRAL.”
The deadline to replace a candidate on the ballot is 11:59 PM today.
One other thing. Why did CNN also wait until today to drop it? The network must have had the story for weeks, maybe even months, to do all the research to connect the accounts to Robinson.
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