{"id":537348,"date":"2026-03-21T20:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537348\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:53:14","slug":"republican-says-he-lied-about-racist-posts-on-porn-site-to-protect-trump-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537348\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican says he lied about racist posts on porn site to protect Trump | Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former Republican North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson<\/a> has admitted he misled voters during his unsuccessful 2024 gubernatorial campaign when he denied posting racist and offensive comments on a pornography website \u2013 suggesting he did so to protect Donald Trump\u2019s successful presidential run.<\/p>\n

Robinson, who worked in furniture manufacturing before entering politics in 2020, told the After the Call podcast<\/a> on Thursday: \u201cI won\u2019t say that I completely lied. Some of the things about the whole story \u2013 some of it \u2014 there\u2019s some truth to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spectacular undoing of Robinson\u2019s political career came after CNN reported<\/a> in September 2024 that he had been posting under a pseudonym on Nude Africa, an online porn forum.<\/p>\n

Robinson, CNN reported, expressed support for slavery in forum posts. CNN also reported that Robinson, who is Black, labelled Martin Luther King a \u201ccommie bastard\u201d and said that if he, Robinson, belonged to the Ku Klux Klan he would refer to King by a racist name.<\/p>\n

Robinson<\/a> also used homophobic and antisemitic slurs, according to CNN\u2019s reporting, including exclaiming: \u201cI\u2019m a black NAZI!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Washington Post later reported that on the same forum Robinson had praised Mein Kampf, writing that it was a \u201cgood read\u201d as well as \u201cvery informative and not at all what I thought it would be.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a real eye-opener.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson initially denied that he was the author of the comments posted more than a decade earlier. He vowed to continue his campaign as he was thrust into an unflattering national spotlight.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me reassure you: the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson,\u201d Robinson said in a video<\/a> posted to X.<\/p>\n

The race for North Carolina<\/a> governor was won by the Democrat Josh Stein by 14 points in November 2024.<\/p>\n

During the podcast with Florida-based pastor Josh Hall released last week, Robinson acknowledged that he had an \u201cobsession\u201d with pornography and sex and had denied the reports of his online commentary to protect those around him, including Trump<\/a>, because it was \u201cthe most expedient thing to do\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had to ignore the truth at that moment for their expediency, I felt like it was the right thing to do,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI certainly don\u2019t want to be the person that costs the president of the United States the election \u2013 didn\u2019t want to cost anyone else their election. I guess there may be some people that feel like that I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump clinched a second presidency during that same electoral cycle by defeating Kamala Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Discrepancies between Robinson\u2019s campaign positioning and his online persona caused top campaign staff to flee. Trump, who had previously described Robinson as \u201cone of the great stars of the [Republican] party, one of the great stars in politics\u201d, distanced himself too.<\/p>\n

In his comments, Robinson said: \u201cAllegations that I watched pornography and was involved with people that watched pornography \u2026 that was absolutely true.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that he believes people like him, who struggled and came back from a porn \u201cobsession\u201d, are the best messengers to help others in the same situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only shame in it is staying in it,\u201d he said on the podcast.<\/p>\n

Asked if he would make the same decision again to deny authorship of the comments in furtherance of the larger political cause, he confirmed he would.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t about me,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cThey knew that they could use me to destroy, the people around me, up to and including the president, they would do it. And so I\u2019d make the exact same decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Republican North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson has admitted he misled voters during his unsuccessful 2024…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-537348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}