So you are telling me for some reason, Mark Robsinon refused help in tracking down the real author of those salacious porn website posts that he definitely did not make. Shocking!
All the GOPers trying to back-paddle from their endorsements. Their previous sweet praises of Robinson won't be scrubbed from the Internet -- they are with us forever. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, head of GOP governors, pulls endorsement of Mark Robinson https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...orsement-for-mark-robinson-in-nc/75354352007/
Robinson has hired a law firm to sue CNN. The reality that he has no case does not matter; nor do facts matter to him. Basically his intent is to attack CNN rather than trying to prove the posts on the porn site are not his. So in summary - "Black Nazi and porn aficionado Mark Robinson hires Trumpy law firm to investigate CNN for "false smears", which is probably also one of his fetishes." (from social media). Under pressure to prove porn-site denial, Robinson hires law firm The move comes as North Carolina Republicans increased pressure on Robinson to move beyond denials and offer proof that allegations outlined in a CNN investigation are not true. https://www.wral.com/story/under-pr...site-denial-robinson-hires-law-firm/21640727/ The campaign of embattled Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson on Tuesday announced the hiring of a law firm to investigate claims that Robinson made lewd and racist comments on a pornographic website more than a decade ago. The move comes as North Carolina Republicans increased pressure on Robinson to move beyond just denials and offer proof that the allegations outlined in a CNN investigation last week are not true. The Robinson campaign said it hired the Virginia-based attorney Jesse Binnall “to investigate where and how these false smears originated.” “I am confident that Binnall Law Group will leave no stone unturned and enable us to use every legal means to hold CNN accountable for their lies,” Robinson said in a statement Tuesday. The cable news network last week published a report that linked Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, to posts on the website Nude Africa that praised Nazis, called for the reinstatement of slavery, and described explicit pornographic preferences. In one post, the account tied to Robinson called himself “a Black Nazi,” CNN reported. The network tied Robinson to the account with his email address, profile picture and user name that matched ones he used on other sites. The campaign's announcement Tuesday comes a day after WRAL News reported allegations that Robinson rejected multiple offers from supporters to connect him with information technology specialists to help investigate the matter. Robinson’s rejection of the offers sowed doubt among some staff members, people familiar with the matter told WRAL. His response in the wake of the report likely played a role in the exodus of some staff members, the people said. At least eight campaign staff members quit the campaign on Sunday, including Robinson's campaign manager and finance director. Republicans, growing impatient with Robinson, stepped up their calls Tuesday for him to offer definitive proof or show that he is fighting CNN. Republicans worry that Robinson could be a drag on the rest of the ticket, endangering other statewide candidates and imperiling their state legislative supermajorities. “He should conclusively and quickly prove false the allegations against him,” Hal Weatherman, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, said in a social media post Tuesday. “If he can prove this isn’t true and was fabricated to hurt him, he will win in a landslide. But if he fails to do so, he will lose, because the comments being attributed to him are highly disturbing.” Brad Briner, the Republican nominee for state treasurer added: “If Mark Robinson cannot put these allegations to rest in the coming days, he should step aside.” After the CNN report came out last week, Robinson quickly denied that he made the comments, suggesting he was the victim of internet trickery.“We are going after them,” he said Monday, referring to CNN, at an event in Wilkes County. CNN didn’t respond to a request for comment. “My team and I are looking forward to getting to the bottom of CNN’s claims and we will bring all our resources to bear in getting to the facts,” Binnall, who was one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers in disputing the results of the 2020 election, said in a statement. “Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, his family and the voters of North Carolina deserve nothing less.” Before Robinson announced he was hiring the lawyer, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis said Tuesday that he would give Robinson until the end of the week to take action to prove the denials. He previously expressed concern about how Robinson could affect the Trump's campaign to return to the White House. Robinson has trailed his Democratic opponent Josh Stein in most polls. A new Elon University Poll, released Tuesday, showed Robinson trailing Stein by 14 percentage points. In the same poll, Trump trailed Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, by just one point. “If the reporting on Mark Robinson is a total media fabrication, he needs to take immediate legal action,” Tillis said Friday in a social media post. “If the reporting is true, he owes it to President Trump and every Republican to take accountability for his actions and put the future of NC & our party before himself.” On Tuesday, Tillis told reporters at the U.S. Capitol: “I’m just concerned with the lack of response.” “If there’s no evidence to the contrary, anybody who is having an association with Lieutenant Governor Robinson needs to rethink whether or not that’s a good idea," Tillis told reporters. "… If we’re having this discussion about no credible evidence in opposition to what [CNN] has introduced, it will have, I think, pretty significant consequences down the ballot. I’m not sure it will have negative consequences up the ballot, based on how the Trump campaign has proceeded since the allegation.” Trump endorsed Robinson before the primary, helping him to an easy victory. Trump has praised Robinson, who is Black, on numerous occasions, comparing him favorably to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, who at one time frequently featured Robinson at campaign events in the state, didn't invite Robinson to his rally in Wilmington on Saturday and didn’t mention his name during the event. Asked last week whether Trump was still endorsing Robinson, the former president's campaign sent WRAL a statement that didn't mention Robinson. "President Trump’s campaign is focused on winning the White House and saving this country," Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokeswoman. "North Carolina is a vital part of that plan. We are confident that as voters compare the Trump record of a strong economy, low inflation, a secure border, and safe streets, with the failures of Biden-Harris, then President Trump will win the Tar Heel State once again. We will not take our eye off the ball.” Longtime critic Tillis endorsed Salisbury lawyer Bill Graham in the Republican gubernatorial primary, saying Robinson lacks the business and legislative experience needed to be governor of one of the biggest states in the nation. Robinson hadn’t held public office until he was elected the state’s first Black lieutenant governor in 2020. “I didn't think he could win the race then, and I was working with far less information than I'm in possession of now,” Tillis told CNN Tuesday. “And I'm hoping he discredits that information.” Tillis, a former speaker of the North Carolina House, won his Senate seat in 2014 and won reelection in 2020. He is up for reelection in 2026. Tillis has seen what a scandal late in an election cycle can do. In 2020, his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham, admitted in the final month of the campaign to having an affair. Text messages from Cunningham, who was married, to the other woman were made public, and Cunningham admitted that they were authentic. Cunningham stayed in the race. Tillis, who had trailed in polls before the affair became public, won with 48.7% of the vote to Cunningham's 46.9%. Other North Carolina Republicans have also called on Robinson to substantiate his denial over the comments detailed in the CNN report, noting the potential down-ballot impact. “Mark has told the public these allegations are false and it is his responsibility to prove that to North Carolina voters,” Rep. Erin Pare, R-Wake, said in a post on social media. “However, the turmoil at the top of the ticket underscores the importance of state legislative races.” While some Republicans seek distance themselves, Democrats sense opportunity and have been trying to tie Robinson to other GOP candidates up and down the ballot. Some local and national Republican leaders are concerned it could work. On Tuesday the top Republican in the U.S. Senate, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, told NBC News that he’s “happy there’s not a Senate race in North Carolina” this year. Down-ballot impact? On Tuesday, the Democratic candidate for state public schools superintendent, Mo Green, released his first television ad. It touts Robinson’s endorsement of Green’s Republican opponent, Michele Morrow, over a hard-to-miss, highlighter-yellow background. The rest of the ad copies a strategy Stein used in his own initial ad in the governor’s race, which featured nothing but clips of Robinson talking about abortion. That ad was widely seen as effective, contributing to Robinson’s lagging poll numbers well before the CNN story broke. Green’s ad similarly features clips of Morrow talking — about her support for the Jan. 6, 2021, attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, her proposal to execute former President Barack Obama live on pay-per-view television, and her criticisms of the public schools she’s now seeking to run, which she calls “an absolute cesspool of evil” because “we have allowed Satan to take over our schools.” Morrow didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday about the ad, or about Robinson’s alleged comments and his previous endorsement of her. A WRAL News Poll of the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction from earlier this month, before the CNN story on Robinson, found Green over Morrow 40% to 38% — a statistical tie, and nowhere near the 14-point lead that same poll found for Stein over Robinson. In the race for attorney general, that same poll found a 7-point lead for Democrat Jeff Jackson over Republican Dan Bishop, 43% to 36%. And like other Democrats whose GOP opponents have embraced Robinson in the past, Jackson quickly put an ad online that highlighted Bishop’s frequent praise of Robinson, interspersed with excerpts of the CNN report on Robinson. Bishop “said he wants to be his ‘sidekick’ as Attorney General,” Jackson wrote on social media. “This about a guy who called Mein Kampf ‘a good read [and] a real eye-opener.’” After the CNN report on Robinson was published, Bishop wrote: “I’m focused on winning the Attorney General’s race. As a matter of law, any decisions about how to proceed in the Governor’s race rest solely with Mark and are between him and the people of North Carolina.” And last week, soon after the Robinson news first broke, national Democrats — the party as well as Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign — quickly bought billboards and ad space in North Carolina to show photos of Trump and Robinson together. The ads and billboards highlight Trump’s frequent praise of the politician he previously compared to Martin Luther King Jr., who Robinson is alleged to have trashed with racist slurs in the porn site comments.
Mealy-mouthed Republicans avoid condemning Robinson as they talk out of their rears. They want to "let it play out", "is between him and the voters", and "he should disprove the allegations". The silliest ways Republicans in NC and beyond have avoided condemning Mark Robinson https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article292978399.html
The majority of the staff members of Mark Robinson's state Lt. Governors office are resigning in masse. Top members of Robinson's state office to resign in wake of porn-site report The resignations, to take effect in the coming days, follow the departures of at least eight members of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's gubernatorial campaign. Robinson has denied allegations made in a CNN report that said he made racist and lewd comments on a pornographic website decades ago. https://www.wral.com/story/top-memb...nations-in-wake-of-porn-site-report/21642424/
Every single day more stuff comes out from his postings on the internet. Apparently Robinson enjoyed posting hateful, violent comments on right-wing sites when he was not viewing porn. Previously unreported comments by Trump-endorsed Mark Robinson reveal menacing smears https://www.rawstory.com/mark-robinson-2669271509/
Mark Robinson always has had some sick burns -- but this is a new take on it. NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson hospitalized with second-degree burns following incident at campaign event https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/27/politics/mark-robinson-hospitalized/index.html