Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) demanded Friday that Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson both pursue authorized motion in opposition to CNN or finish his bid to be the state’s governor after the outlet attributed disturbing posts on a pornography web site to the gubernatorial candidate.
“If the reporting on Mark Robinson is a complete media fabrication, he must take quick authorized motion,” Tillis wrote on X.
“If the reporting is true, he owes it to President Trump and each Republican to take accountability for his actions and put the way forward for NC & our celebration earlier than himself,” the senior senator from North Carolina added.
Tillis’ ultimatum comes sooner or later after CNN reported that Robinson, 56, described himself as a “black Nazi” in one in every of a number of inflammatory posts made between 2008 and 2012 on pornography web site Nude Africa.
“Slavery is just not unhealthy. Some folks have to be slaves. I want they’d convey it again. I would definitely purchase just a few,” the lieutenant governor wrote in one other submit on the location’s message board, in accordance with the outlet.
Robinson referred to himself as a “perv,” recalled “peeping” on ladies showering in a public gymnasium and known as Muslims “little rag-headed bastards” in different stunning posts, CNN reported.
The outlet decided the posts have been made by Robinson after figuring out that the Nude Africa consumer and the GOP gubernatorial candidate shared a number of biographical particulars in addition to an e-mail tackle.
Robinson has denied that he made the posts, calling the report “outrageous lies.”
“Let me reassure you the issues that you will note in that story, these are usually not the phrases of Mark Robinson,” he stated in a video posted on X earlier than the story dropped. “You already know my phrases, you recognize my character and you recognize I’ve been utterly clear on this race and earlier than.”
Robinson additionally stated that he wouldn’t be dropping out of the race.
The North Carolina Republican Occasion has additionally not known as on the lieutenant governor to finish his marketing campaign, calling the report a “smear” and try by “the Left” to show the election right into a “persona contest.”
A Victory Insights ballot launched Thursday has Stein main Robinson 47% to 42% — with 7% of respondents backing former President Donald Trump however undecided on Robinson.
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