Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, vowed to continue his campaign following a salacious CNN report unveiling comments he made on a pornography site’s message board.
Robinsons referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and admitted to watching transgender pornography on internet message boards over a decade ago, according to CNN. Under the username “minisoldr,” Robinson reportedly posted messages to the pornography site Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012.
Robinson denied the report in a video posted to his social media shortly before the story was published. The video statement followed Robinson canceling campaign events ahead of the story’s release.
“Let me reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson. You know my words, you know my character, and you know that I have been completely transparent in this race and before. Folks, this race right now, our opponents are desperate to shift the focus here from the substantive issues and focus on what you are concerned with to salacious trap, tabloid trash,” Robinson said.
I wanted to take a minute to address the latest outrageous lies coming from my opponent’s dishonest campaign: #ncgov #ncpol pic.twitter.com/RtteVUiozr
— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) September 19, 2024
Robinson said the CNN report was based on false claims trafficked by his Democratic opponent in the gubernatorial race, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.
CNN presented Robinson with evidence connecting the account on Nude Africa to the Republican candidate. That evidence included biographical details shared by the account that correspond with Robinson’s life as well as information on the account that identified it as belonging to Robinson, including a profile picture of him and his name.
“I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies,” Robinson responded.
The posts by the Nude Africa account identified by CNN covered Martin Luther King, Jr., slavery, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and other topics.
One comment made after the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., in August 2011 said: “Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!.”
“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 Koon!” another said.
An October 2010 post in a forum discussing black Republicans said “I’m a black NAZI!” Another comment posted later that month by the account said of slavery: “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few.”
In posts discussing the Taliban, the account called Muslims “little rag-headed bastards” and said that “if Muslims took over liberals would be the 1st ones to be beheaded!”