Republican says he lied about racist posts on porn site to protect Trump | Republicans
Former Republican North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson admitted to misleading voters by refusing to post racist and offensive comments on a pornography website during his unsuccessful 2024 gubernatorial campaign; this suggested that he did this to preserve Donald Trump’s successful presidential run.
Robinson, who worked in furniture manufacturing before entering politics in 2020. After the call podcast On Thursday: “I’m not going to say I’m completely lying. There’s a grain of truth to some of the things – some – about the whole story.”
Robinson’s political career was spectacularly ruined. CNN reported He said he posted under a pseudonym on Nude Africa, an online porn forum, in September 2024.
According to CNN, Robinson expressed support for slavery in forum posts. CNN also reported that Robinson, who is black, labeled Martin Luther King a “communist bastard” and said he would have called King a racist name if Robinson belonged to the Ku Klux Klan.
Robinson also used homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs, CNN reported; to which “I am a black Nazi!”
The Washington Post later reported that in the same forum, Robinson praised Mein Kampf, writing that it was “a good read” and that it was “very informative and not at all what I thought it would be.”
“This is a real eye opener.”
Robinson initially denied that he was the author of the comments published more than a decade ago. He vowed to continue his campaign as he became the center of an unwelcome national spotlight.
“I can assure you that what you will see in this story are not Mark Robinson’s words,” Robinson said. video sent to x
Democrat Josh Stein won the North Carolina governor’s race in November 2024 by 14 points.
During last week’s podcast with Florida-based pastor Josh Hall, Robinson admitted to having an “obsession” with pornography and sex and dismissed reports of her online comments to protect those around her, including Trump, because it was “the most appropriate thing to do.”
“I felt at that moment that if I had to ignore the truth for their own benefit, it was the right thing to do,” Robinson said.
“I certainly don’t want to be the person who cost the election of the president of the United States — I didn’t want to cost anyone else the election. I think there might be some people who think that’s what I did.”
Trump won a second presidency by defeating Kamala Harris in the same election period.
Inconsistencies between Robinson’s campaign positioning and his online persona led to the defection of senior campaign staff. Trump, who previously described Robinson as “one of the biggest stars in the world” [Republican] The party, which is one of the biggest stars of politics, also remained distant.
In his comments, Robinson said: “The allegations that I watched pornography and was with people who watched pornography…were absolutely true.”
He added that he believes people like himself who have struggled and bounced back from porn “obsession” are the best ambassadors to help others in the same situation.
“The only shame in it is staying in it,” he said on the podcast.
When asked if he would make the same decision again to deny authorship of the comments in order to advance the larger political cause, he confirmed that he would.
“This wasn’t about me,” Robinson said. “They knew they could use me to destroy me, and the people around me, including the president, were going to do that. I was going to make the same decision.”
