North Carolina’s race for governor was thrown into chaos Thursday after a report alleged its GOP nominee once posted of his affinity for transgender porn, his pro-slavery beliefs, and described himself as a “Black Nazi.”
Details about the bizarre posts by Republican Mark Robinson were revealed by CNN KFile on Thursday afternoon, which uncovered the slew of scandalous posts on pornographic forums like “Nude Africa” in the 2000s.
Robinson, 56, vehemently denied making the posts and characterized them as “salacious tabloid lies” that are not “characteristic of me.”
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Donald Trump said in March that Mark Robinson had his “complete and total endorsement.”
Allison Joyce/ReutersHowever, CNN’s report said the email address associated with Robinson’s forum accounts was also used by the politician elsewhere online and social media. It added that is used other ways to confirm the posts came from him, including that he posted to the forum that he was in Greensboro, which is where he lives.
“Slavery is not bad,” Robinson wrote in one post from 2010. “Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few.”
Seemingly unprovoked, Robinson also posted that year: “I’m a Black Nazi.”
Robinson, who’s North Carolina’s current lieutenant governor, had been running as a staunch conservative alternative to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, the Democrat’s nominee. He has a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, but he had a starkly different tone when he wrote in online forums.
“I like watching tranny on girl porn!” he reportedly wrote. “That’s f---ing hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in! And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
He also graphically detailed his sexual arousal as an adult from a memory he had when he was secretly “peeping” on women in public gym showers as a 14-year-old.
Mark Robinson has spoken at campaign rallies for Donald Trump on multiple occasions, but the former president’s team has reportedly asked him to steer clear of future ones.
Jonathan Drake/ReutersA separate report alleged that Donald Trump’s campaign has been working overtime to distance itself from the situation in what’s turned into a key swing state.
The Carolina Journal reported that “members of the Trump campaign” have asked Robinson to withdrawal from the race over the article’s explicit nature. The campaign also reportedly ordered Robinson to steer clear of all Trump and JD Vance campaign events when they stump in the Tar Heel state.
Robinson was scheduled to speak at a Vance campaign event on Wednesday but his office announced that Robinson had tested positive for COVID.
Robinson’s name is already locked in to appearing on North Carolina ballots and he’s outright declared he won’t be calling off his campaign.
“We are not getting out of this race,” he told CNN. “There are people who are counting on us to win this race.”
Thursday’s report isn’t Robinson’s first run-in with scandal. He called for a complete abortion ban in 2020 but later walked that stance back after it was revealed in 2022 that he paid for his now-wife to have an abortion in the 1980s.
A post uncovered by CNN showed that Robinson, now a far-right hardliner on most issues, wasn’t so strongly against abortion in his forum posts.
“I don’t care,” he said about a celebrity having an abortion. “I just wanna see the sex tape!”
More recently, five men who worked at or patronized video-pornography stores in Greensboro told the North Carolina Assembly that Robinson would frequently visit after he finished work at a nearby pizza shop.
Those workers claimed that Robinson had bought “hundreds” of bootleg porn videos and that Robinson’s tastes lay in “just straight American porn.”
