Mark Robinson, the former Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, claimed he lied about posting inappropriate and racist comments on a porn site message board in 2024 because he believed that being truthful could impact Donald Trump’s ability to win the state in the presidential election.
Less than a month before his landslide loss to Josh Stein in the race for Governor of North Carolina, Robinson was embroiled in controversy when CNN published a report that found several comments from 2008 to 2012 on the site “Nude Africa,” which included him saying, “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves,” and referring to himself as a “black NAZI!”
“I’d take Hitler over any of the shit that’s in Washington right now!” he wrote, regarding Barack Obama’s presidency. According to the CNN report, Robinson also frequently used homophobic slurs, all of which was done under the alias “minisoldr.”
Robinson not only denied the report, but filed a $50 million libel lawsuit against CNN, which was later dropped.
In his sit-down interview on After the Call with Josh Hall, Robinson admits that there was some truth to what was being reported, saying, “I won’t say that I completely lied, some of the things about the whole story. Some of it…there’s some truth to it.”
As for why he lied in the first place, Robinson alleges there was “not time,” adding, “If this was a year before the election, there would be time. There was eight weeks until the election.”
Robinson alleges he needed to deny everything in order to ensure that Trump won the presidential election.
“At this point, President Trump and I had become very good friends, and I realized how important it was for President Trump to win that race,” he said. “I knew that, not only was I in the fight for my life, that the country, literally, was in the fight for its life. The country couldn’t have stood four more years of Joe Biden.”
While endorsing Robinson at a rally in North Carolina months before the election, Trump heaped praise on Robinson, calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids” and “Martin Luther King times two.”
While Trump did go on to win the battleground state of North Carolina by 183,000 votes, according to CNN, he won every battleground state, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Nevada. Robinson’s “sacrifice” resulted in Stein securing the gubernatorial race.
When Trump returned to North Carolina for a rally after the report surfaced, he did not mention Robinson, or even invite him to the event.
“I had to make sure that I continued to fight and continue to focus on the fight at hand in order to protect the people around me,” Robinson said. “If that meant not being around President Trump anymore, then that’s what that meant.”
