North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, posted dozens of “gratuitously sexual” and racist remarks on a pornography forum over the course of 16 years — including on his desire to own slaves and being a Peeping Tom — a jaw-dropping CNN report revealed Thursday.
Robinson shared his creepy thoughts on the message board of porn site Nude Africa from 2008 to 2012.
“I’m a Black Nazi!” he said on a message board focused on black Republicans in October 2010. He also wrote that month, “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would certainly buy a few.”
Participants of another forum on the site debated “whether to believe the story of a woman who said she was raped by her taxi driver while intoxicated,” CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck write. Robinson’s contribution: “and the moral of this story….. Don’t f–k a white bitch!”
He called Muslims “little rag-headed bastards.”
Robinson reveled as he recalled “peeping” on women showering in a public gym “for about an hour” when he was 14. “CNN is not publishing the graphic sexual details of Robinson’s story,” the outlet wrote.
And he shared his pornography preferences. “I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f–king hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
CNN detailed how it established Robertson wrote the posts, which were made under a pseudonym.
The campaign of Robinson’s opponent, Attorney General Josh Stein, “leaked the story to CNN and local Raleigh news outlet, WRAL,” sources told Carolina Journal.
Shortly before CNN published the story Thursday afternoon, Robinson denounced the “news media” and his Democratic opponent in a direct-to-camera video on Twitter, calling the allegations “salacious tabloid trash.”
Supreme Court Justice “Clarence Thomas famously once said he was the victim of a high tech lynching. Well, it looks like Mark Robinson is too, by a man who refuses to stand on stage and debate me about the real issues that face you,” he said, referring to himself in the third person.
“Let me reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” he said, vowing to stay in the race.
CNN will air Thursday night an interview it’s already recorded with Robinson.
One of his email addresses was registered on website Ashley Madison, where married people can seek people looking for affairs, Politico reported after the CNN story went online, saying an anonymous Robinson adviser confirmed it’s his. The pol has been married to Yolanda Hill Robinson since 1990.
Robinson, 56, is the state’s first African American in his position and its first black major-party gubernatorial nominee.
When former President Donald Trump endorsed him at a March rally in Greensboro, he likened Robinson to an iconic civil-rights leader. “I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two,” Trump said. “Martin Luther King on steroids.”
Robinson was no fan of King in October 2011, when he called him “worse than a maggot” and a “ho f–king phony” on Nude Africa.
Robinson’s campaign has been riddled with scandal. Several employees at a Greensboro porn-video store this month said the candidate was a regular client of the establishment in the 1990s and early 2000s, which he denies. He identifies as a strong social conservative and frequently talks about his journey in embracing Christianity.
The deadline to withdraw from the race is Thursday night, but even if Robinson throws in the towel, his name will remain on ballots, with that deadline having passed. Ballots are sent to military and overseas voters by Friday, and other absentee ballots are mailed by Tuesday. Early voting starts Oct. 17.
Robinson campaign spokesman Mike Lonergan told The Post Thursday before CNN’s story dropped that any unsavory news about his boss is “Complete fiction.”
The North Carolina Republican Party did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
“Sources with direct knowledge” told Carolina Journal before the CNN release that “Robinson is under pressure from staff and members of the Trump campaign to withdraw from the governor’s race due to the nature of the story.”
But a highly placed Trump campaign source told The Post, “It is not accurate that DJT or campaign has any role in a request to drop.”
One fellow Republican called for Robinson to step aside even before the story ran. “As a proud Republican, I stand for hard work, fiscal responsibility, and liberty. But no one should feel obligated to support a candidate solely due to party affiliation,” said GOP state Senate nominee Scott Lassiter, who backed a Robinson opponent in the primary. “Wrong is still wrong, and if the recent allegations against Robinson are true, combined with his previous public rhetoric, I believe it’s time for him to step aside. North Carolinians deserve a viable choice in this election.”
A Victory Insights poll released Thursday has Stein leading Robinson 47% to 42% — with 7% of of respondents backing Trump but undecided on Robinson.
Robinson has come under fire for controversial remarks before.“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” he said this year.
“Because in those days we had people who fought for real social change. And they were called Republicans. And they are the reason why women can vote today,” Robinson told an assembly of Republican women. “We want to bring back the America where Republicans and principles and true ideas of freedom rule.”
Despite frequently pushing for both personal responsibility and fiscal responsibility in government, Robinson did not file taxes for five years and filed for bankruptcy three times, ABC News reported in April. Robinson noted his past financial struggles in his 2022 memoir.
Both the Harris and Trump camps have been hitting the trail heavily in North Carolina, chasing the swing state’s 16 electoral votes. Kamala Harris visited Charlotte and Greensboro last week after the debate, and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was in Asheville Tuesday.
Republican VP nominee Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance spoke in Raleigh Wednesday — without Robinson. Trump himself will hold a rally Saturday in Wilmington.
