Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson admitted he did not tell the complete truth about making disturbing comments on a porn site and referring to himself as a “black Nazi,” and said he bent the truth in order to protect President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.
“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,” Robinson said on pastor Josh Hall’s “After the Call” podcast Thursday.
Robinson was embroiled in a scandal in the months leading up to his 2024 gubernatorial campaign after CNN reported that in the 2000s, he had used an alias to make inflammatory comments on a porn site, including declaring, “I’m a black NAZI!” CNN also reported that, despite Robinson’s history of anti-trans comments, he had claimed to enjoy transgender porn.
He denied the report and even sued CNN, but eventually dropped the case.
Trump, who was running for president when the report came out, had endorsed Robinson as “Martin Luther King on steroids.”
“And 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 and I knew that not only was I in the fight for my life, that the country literally was in the fight for its life,” Robinson said on the podcast.
Robinson said he had struggled with an “obsession” with pornography and sex, and told Hall he believed the right thing to do at that moment was “ignore the truth” to protect the people around him.
“We can deal with this on the back end, but I certainly don’t want to be the person that cost the President of the United States the election. Didn’t want to cost anyone else their election,” Robinson said. “I guess there may be some people that feel like that I did, but I did everything within my power to ensure that I kept the fight focused on the governor’s race.”
