North Carolina's Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson,
referred to himself as a black Nazi and said slavery is good, among
other shocking remarks, on a porn forum, according to reporting from
CNN�s KFile.

Earlier on Thursday, independent journalist Bryan Anderson had said that
Robinson�s campaign was bearing down a negative story about to break. A
few hours later, CNN�s KFile reported that he had an account on a porn
site called �Nude Africa� where the anti-transgender conservative
admitted that �I like watching tranny on girl porn!�

The social conservative, who has taken a stance against promiscuity in
the past, wrote: �yeah, I�m a perv too,� and reportedly said on the same
site when told that a celebrity had had an abortion: �I don�t care. I
just wanna see the sex tape!�

Robinson denies the allegations and told CNN that the account they had
found on the porn site was not his.

�Robinson has long been toast,� Doug Heye, a longtime Republican
operative from North Carolina, told The Independent via text message. He
noted how the Trump campaign was �very nervous about how [the story]
impacts him.�

�Black Nazi� and �perv�: Stunning report details NC Republican
candidate�s posts about self on porn forum

Harris team wasted no time in tweeting about Trump�s warm relationship
with Robinson

The online comments were made between 2008 and 2012, long before Robinson
stepped into politics, on Nude Africa, which has a message board. They
were written under the username �minisoldr� which CNN matched to several
biographical details as well as an email address.
Republican candidate for North Carolina governor Mark Robinson speaks
during the RNC. He is now under fire for alleged posts he made on a porn
forum.
Republican candidate for North Carolina governor Mark Robinson speaks
during the RNC. He is now under fire for alleged posts he made on a porn
forum. (C-Span)

Robinson also listed his full name on his Nude Africa profile, along with
the email address that he used on several websites online for years.

He wrote on the site about �peeping� on women in public gym showers when
he was 14.

�I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over
it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about
an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered,� he wrote on
Nude Africa, according to CNN.

�I like watching tranny on girl porn! That�s f****** hot! It takes the
man out while leaving the man in!� Robinson wrote in separate comments on
the site.
Lieutenant governor denies making controversial comments

The lieutenant governor denied making the comments when speaking to CNN
on Thursday.

�This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that
is characteristic of me,� he said. �I�m not going to get into the minutia
of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.�

He told CNN that the issues the residents of his state face are more
important than �tabloid trash� as he began attacking his Democratic
opponent.

�We are not getting out of this race. There are people who are counting
on us to win this race,� he told the network.

In his online comments, Robinson repeatedly attacked Martin Luther King
Jr, including when a new monument was put in place in Washington DC.

�Get that f****** commie bastard off the National Mall!� he wrote at the
time.

One user accused the gubernatorial candidate of being a white
supremacist.

�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!� he wrote.

North Carolina publication The Assembly reported earlier this month that
Robinson often visited local video porn stores in the 1990s and 2000s,
which a spokesperson for Robinson rejected.

CNN found Robinson�s full name on the profile �minisoldr� and it had a
private email address that Robinson had used on other sites. The network
also matched Robinson�s wedding date to a comment he made in 2008 about
having been married for 18 years. In 2011, the account stated that the
user behind �minisoldr� lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, where
Robinson currently lives and lived at the time. Robinson also used the
username on other sites.

CNN also connected certain phrases used by Robinson on Nude Africa and
Facebook, such as �gag a maggot,� �dunder head,� �I don�t give a frogs
a**,� and �I don�t give two shakes of it.�

Robinson wrote �I�m a black NAZI!� on a forum discussing Black
Republicans.

�Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would
bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,� he wrote in a
separate post.

�I�d take Hitler over any of the s*** that�s in Washington right now!� he
wrote in March 2012.

In October 2011, he called Martin Luther King Jr �worse than a maggot�
and a �huckster.�

Trump, for his part, has compared Robinson to King in the past.

�So we had rumors months ago that Josh Stein�s camp had some really
damning information about Robinson that they wanted to hold on to until
right before early voting,� Jonathan Bridges, another Republican
operative in the state, told The Independent. �As the campaign
consultants, we hold our worst negative information right before people
go to the polls, because then it�s too late for a campaign to recover.�

Michael Bitzer, a professor of politics and history at Catawba College,
gave his take on the fallout of the story: �I think with a very tight
toss-up presidential race, this can�t help Donald Trump get over a very
competitive dynamic how this plays out.�

Bitzer also noted that candidates like Michele Morrow, a candidate for
superintendent who called for Barack Obama and Joe Biden to be executed,
could drag Trump down in a similar way.

�We�ll have to wait and see what the polling tells us, but there has to
be some impact if Democrats start to tie Robinson to Trump and to
somebody like Michele Morrow and other Republicans on the ballot,� he
told The Independent.

The Trump campaign told The Dispatch in a statement that they�re �focused
on winning the White House and saving this country. North Carolina is an
[sic] vital part of that plan. We are confident that as voters compare
the Trump record of a strong economy, low inflation, a secure border, and
safe streets, with the failures of Biden-Harris, then President Trump
will win the Tarheel State once again. We will not take our eye off the
ball.�

Politico reported on Thursday that Robinson�s email was used to register
for an account on Ashley Madison, a site for married people looking to
have an affair. An anonymous adviser to Robinson confirmed to Politico
that the email was Robinson�s. It was the same email address used by
Robinson on Nude Africa.
A firebrand with a controversial past

Mark Robinson, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina,
is 2024�s answer to the question: Has the GOP learned from the last
election cycle?

That answer seems to be �no.�

Bridges warned that Republicans no longer take credentials seriously.

�Look, both parties used to vet their candidates,� he said. �You didn�t
prop them up, no matter how good of a speaker they were... [but due to]
the populist shift of our party, we placed this rhetoric at a forefront
instead of recruiting good quality candidates.�

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh wrote on X: �The problem isn�t
that Mark Robinson wasn�t vetted. The problem is that he was vetted and
his bad, horrible stuff didn�t matter to Republican voters. Pretty much
just like with Trump.�

As the first Black lieutenant governor of the state since his
inauguration in 2021, Robinson has been a divisive figure in North
Carolina politics for years. But it�s his latest run for governor that
has finally earned him national scrutiny.
Robinson kisses his wife, Yolanda Hill Robinson. The social conservative,
who has taken a stance against promiscuity in the past, wrote, �yeah, I�m
a perv too� on the forum, according to a report
Robinson kisses his wife, Yolanda Hill Robinson. The social conservative,
who has taken a stance against promiscuity in the past, wrote, �yeah, I�m
a perv too� on the forum, according to a report (Copyright The Associated
Press 2024. All rights reserved.)

His stances on the cultural issues that define the MAGA right also appear
to directly conflict with his own personal choices. On abortion, Robinson
claims to be a hardliner, calling the practice �murder� and in at least
one case arguing that a woman�s body is no longer merely her own after
she becomes pregnant, declaring: �It�s not your body anymore. It�s
y�all�s.�

But Robinson himself has admitted that he paid for his girlfriend to seek
abortion care in the 1980s � even though he has blamed abortion in
America for mass shootings in schools. On issues of race, he has made
similarly shocking remarks, and has referred to fellow Black Americans as
�monkeys� and �apes.� He also defended the term �white pride� in multiple
Facebook posts.
A must-win state for Trump and Harris

North Carolina holds its race for governor the same year that it holds
its presidential race, and Robinson is on the ticket the same year that
Kamala Harris is trying to turn North Carolina blue and Trump is fighting
for his life. Just last week, Harris�s husband Doug Emhoff campaigned in
Raleigh with Robinson�s opponent Josh Stein, who received about as big
applause as Emhoff did.

In an election where every vote matters, Republicans are now fretting
that Robinson could bring down the whole ticket.

The Harris campaign wasted no time in tweeting out a video of Trump
praising Robinson as the story about his porn forum posts broke.

The chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee,
Representative Richard Hudson, told reporters on Thursday that �the
allegations are very concerning.�

�He says they�re not true,� he added, according to Politico. �I think he
needs to assure the people of the state with a little more detail that
they aren�t true.�

In a video shared on X before the CNN report, Robinson said, �Let me
reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not
the words of Mark Robinson.�

�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 tabloid trash,� he added.

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