A Thursday afternoon, Sept. 19 CNN bombshell news report set the North Carolina and national media on fire with claims that NC Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Robinson, years ago, referred to himself as a “Black Nazi,” stated that he favored a return to slavery, despised Martin Luther King, Jr. and enjoyed viewing transgender porn.

Robinson, even before the report came out on Thursday, posted a video on the social media platform X in which he denied any truth to the claims.

The CNN report is so damning that some Republican leaders in the state are saying Robinson should drop out of the race – in the same way Biden did. However, just as Biden did after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump, Robinson said he’s absolutely determined to remain the Republican candidate and he added he will not succumb to the phony stories, which he said are being manufactured and propagated by Josh Stein, his Democratic opponent for governor.

Robinson said Stein’s campaign operatives “manufactured” the supposed evidence.

In Robinson’s one-and-a-half-minute video on X, he called the accusations lies put forward by the Stein campaign in order to shift the conversation away from the real issues that North Carolina voters care about.

In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Robinson denied the accusations again and said that they were created to damage him politically. He described them as “salacious tabloid lies.”

Robinson stated that it fits in well with the media’s constant efforts to take him down as with previous accusations that have been hurled at him ever since he began his campaign for governor.

The CNN story, which spread like wildfire Thursday afternoon and became the national story of the day, states that Robinson, “the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.”

It adds, “Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a ‘perv.’”

According to CNN, Robinson made the comments under a username that CNN was able to identify as Robinson “by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.”

The report could not come at a worse time for the Robinson campaign.

Early in the race, Robinson and Stein were neck and neck in the polls, but some recent polls have shown Robinson trailing his opponent by 10 points or more in the face of constant attack ads and unflattering media stories that are much less unflattering than this new one from CNN.

Some Republican leaders in the state are concerned that keeping Robinson on the ticket could help Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris win the state’s electoral votes because the presidential race is currently extremely close in the state and some Republicans may no longer come out to vote for Robinson.

Even though some fellow Republicans were discussing encouraging Robinson to drop out of the race, one big problem is that the ballots for North Carolina are being mailed out tomorrow and the 100 county elections departments across the state just had to toss nearly three million ballots into the trash and work intensely for two weeks to create new ballots without Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s name on it.

Even if he is replaced by a new Republican candidate, it will be Robinson’s name on the ballot. The votes cast for Robinson would go to the new Republican candidate, but many voters will not know that.

Robinson, in his video on X, which he posted about half an hour before the CNN report aired, said he had been attacked in the past with “outright lies over and over again” by Stein operatives pushing false stories – and now, he said, a story “leaked” by Stein to CNN is appearing on that network.

Robinson said he wanted to reassure people that the things that they will hear in the CNN story are not factual.

“Those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” he said.  “You know my words; you know my character, and you know that I have been completely transparent in this race.”

 The Republican gubernatorial candidate added that his opponents are desperate to shift the focus from the substantive issues and instead turn the attention to this “tabloid trash.”

“We cannot allow that to happen and, folks, we’ve seen this type of stuff in the past as well,” he said. “Clarence Thomas famously once said he was the victim of a high-tech lynching – well, it looks like Mark Robinson is too.”

 He added that Stein refuses to stand on stage with him and debate the real issues that concern the people of North Carolina.

“Instead, they want to focus on salacious tabloid lies and we’re not going to let them do that,” he said. “We are staying in this race we are in it to win – and we know that, with your help, we will. God bless you and we will see you on the campaign trail.”

CNN’s story, which went up about a half-hour after Robinson’s video on X, cited comments that Robinson reportedly made on pornography websites just over a decade ago – before he was in politics and before he was well known.  Robinson gained notoriety in April of 2018 when he gave a now-famous speech about gun rights and the video of that speech went viral.

According to CNN, Robinson made the comments during a four-year period between 2008 and 2012.  They were posted on message boards on pornographic and other websites with the username “minisoldr.”

CNN reported that Robinson, while discussing Black Republicans in 2010, wrote on a message board, “I’m a Black Nazi” and other inflammatory remarks such as, “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would certainly buy a few.”

There was a lot more in CNN’s story as well including a claim that Robinson attacked Martin Luther King Jr. as a “commie bastard” adding that King was “worse than a maggot.”

In another post, Robinson allegedly stated that he would prefer Adolf Hitler be in charge rather than “any of the shit that’s in Washington.”

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