Trump campaigns in North Carolina after CNN investigation criticizes his gubernatorial pick
Donald Trump campaigning in North Carolina on Saturday, just two days after CNN investigation report found that the former president gubernatorial candidate selected in state, Mark Robinsonmade dozens of disturbing comments on a porn website’s forum more than a decade ago.
Robinson, who has denied the complaints, is unlikely to attend, according to for AP sources.
Among other alarming statements made under the username “minisoldr”, Robinson has gratuitously said “I’m a black fascist!” He has also admitted to “peeping” at women in a public bathroom at a gym when he was 14, claimed to like “transgender people on my daughter’s porn!”, and called Muslims “rumpled bastards”.
CNN, according to reporters Andrew Kaczynski And I Steckidentified Robinson through his email account and “by matching a range of biographical information” from posts to the Republican gubernatorial candidate.
Robinson, who if elected would have become North Carolina’s first black governor, is said to have called Martin Luther King Jr. a “communist bastard,” “worse than a maggot,” “a phony, a son of a bitch” and a “conman.”
“I wasn’t in the KKK. They don’t let black people join. If I was in the KKK, I’d call him Martin Lucifer Koon!” Robinson is said to have posted, writing in another instance that “Slavery isn’t bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I’d definitely buy some.”
These posts were made more than a decade ago, between 2008 and 2012, on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website.
In the following years, Robinson many times share other hateful feelings.
In a 2017 Facebook post, Robinson speak He was “so sick of seeing and hearing people STILL talking about the Nazis and Hitler and how evil and cunning they were” and warned of the “Communists” who “have been pushing this Nazi demon narrative all these years.”
Then in another Facebook status “So if a woman who ‘transgenders’ into a ‘man’ marries and abuses a man who ‘transgenders’ into a ‘woman,’ is that still ‘violence against women?’ Would feminists object to this?” Robinson wrote the following year.
“I would like to buy an English cigarette,” he continued.
In 2020Robinson speak “I really want to go back to America where women didn’t get to vote,” said attendees at the Pitt County Republican Women’s event.Vanity Fair‘S Bess Levin compilation Add receipt here.)
For more than a year, Trump has be praised The current lieutenant governor of North Carolina, enthusiastically endorses him as the head of the state government.
At the North Carolina Republican Party’s annual convention in June 2023, Trump call Robinson “one of the great stars of the party, one of the great stars in politics.” That December, the former president hold a fundraiser for him at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
“I think he has a chance to be one of the greatest leaders because I’ve been around him so much, I’ve gotten to know him and he’s outstanding,” Trump said at the event. “He’s tough, he’s smart, he’s got a tremendous heart.”
“This is Martin Luther King hyped up,” Trump speak at a rally in Greensboro, NC, in March of this year. “I said that to Mark. I said, ‘I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you’re Martin Luther King twice over.’”
It was unclear whether Trump mentioned Robinson in his remarks on Saturday. According to NBC News On Friday, Trump “faced calls from both allies and his own campaign to withdraw his support for the scandal-plagued North Carolina gubernatorial candidate,” according to four people familiar with the discussions.
Following CNN’s investigation, a Trump campaign spokesman Karoline Leavitt “President Trump’s campaign is focused on winning the White House and saving this country. North Carolina is a critical part of that plan,” he told the network.
