The Republican candidate also attacked Martin Luther King Jr., calling the civil rights icon “worse than a maggot.”

Mark Robinson, who was endorsed in March by Donald Trump in the race for governor of North Carolina, said he supported slavery, called himself a “black NAZI,” and graphically described “peeping” on women in public gym showers on a porn forum called “Nude Africa,” CNN KFile reported Thursday.

The comments were reportedly made “under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.” CNN said it determined the username belonged to the gubernatorial candidate “by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.”


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    Presented with the details re: how CNN determined the comments came from him, Robinson responded: “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”

    Sure, buddy. Somebody in 2008 spent 4 years writing posts on an obscure web forum using an account registered to your email address, just so they could have a “gotcha!” moment when you decided to run for governor over a decade later.

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    Democrat candidate: supports unions. feeds school kids. Wants to restore women’s rights.

    Republican candidate: endorsed slavery, and described spying on women in public showers in porn forum

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        Yeah, even with single issue voters I don’t see how…he seems like he’s an internet creation of the worst possible candidate to run, with replies of “that’s a bit too far, no one would believe that.”

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      Not to mention the Republican candidate called trans people filth, demonized abortion after his wife had one, and was known to spend multiple nights per week at the local adult arcade

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    This is Martin Luther King on steroids…I told that to Mark. I said, I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two

    • Donald Trump on Mark Robinson

    And to be fair to Trump, it seems like Robinson is comparable to MLK in the sense both of them would be deeply offended by the comparison.

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    In case anybody’s wondering, Fox News currently has this story 27th out of their normally formatted links on their home page, with the headline “GOP gubernatorial candidate vehemently denies graphic allegations, won’t exit race”.

    You’ll need to scroll past gems like:

    • CNN reporter lectures boat-owning Trump supporter on economy — but he isn’t having it
    • NFL Hall of Fame coach [openly homophobic Tony Dungy] posts fiery response to VP Harris’ tweet about abortion
    • Martha Stewart, Ina Garten dish on how decades-long friendship came to an end
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    A couple years ago this would have been a strange headline, today not so much.

    Things you will rarely read about democrats: “said batshit insane stuff on some hentai forum”

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      Things you will rarely read about democrats: “said batshit insane stuff on some hentai forum”

      Either because a) they didn’t do it, or b) were smart enough to not have the comments be tracked back to them personally

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    You got to have a unique pornhub username that’s not the same as other accounts! I wouldn’t vote for this guy based on that alone.

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    He has publicly denied the Holocaust and has made many antisemitic remarks. Is anyone surprised that he considers himself a black Nazi?

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    He sounds like the kind of Black person white supremacists like: one not only venal enough to carry their flag and accept their instrumental praise, but to demonstrate the sort of stupidity and savagery that reinforces their view of their racial superiority.

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    and this is why nowadays I use different usernames on EVERY website I register on unless I use my real name anyway and want the things I do there to be associated with me

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        Yeah, this is the funny thing; in some bizarre future where I run in politics, and someone does discover the weird stuff I’ve said in NSFW channels, I’d be like; “Yes, this is embarrassing, but still isn’t a big mark on my character.”

        There’s a big gap between being into weird stuff that’s basically harmless, and actively enjoying the genuine denigrating/harm of others.