North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor denies involvement in alleged porn scandal and calls it “tabloid trash”

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North Carolina's Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson denied involvement in an alleged pornography scandal that came to light Thursday and announced he would continue to fight to become the next governor of the Old North State.

CNN published a report Thursday afternoon accusing Robinson of previously using a porn site called Nude Africa, where he allegedly exchanged messages with other users about peeping on women in dressing rooms as a teenager, calling himself a “black NAZI” and saying he had a penchant for transgender pornography.

Shortly before the report was released, Robinson posted a video on his X account vowing to stay in the race and calling the then-expected report “tabloid garbage.”

“I can assure you that the things you're about to see in this story are not the words of Mark Robinson. You know my words, you know my character, and you know I've been completely transparent in this race and before. Folks, in this race, our opponents are desperately trying to shift the focus from the substantive issues to what's on your mind and focus on salacious traps and tabloid garbage,” he said in the X-video.

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The CNN report said Robinson, using the pseudonym “minisoldr,” described on the porn site how much he enjoyed watching transgender pornography and recounted how he allegedly peeped on women in a dressing room when he was 14.

“I came to a spot that was a dead end but covered with two large vent covers! It just so happened that you could see over the showers from there! I sat there for about an hour and watched several girls come in and shower,” Robinson reportedly wrote on Nude Africa about spying on women as a teenager.

In another 2010 report, CNN reported that Robinson allegedly said, “I’m a black Nazi!” during a discussion about black Republicans.

According to CNN, the alleged use of the chat forums occurred between 2008 and 2012, long before Robinson entered the political arena in 2019 when he announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor.

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Robinson blamed his Democratic opponent, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, for leaking the allegations to the media.

“The people of North Carolina already know that Mark Robinson is completely unfit to be governor. Josh remains focused on winning this race so that together we can build a safer and stronger North Carolina for all,” Stein's campaign team told Fox News Digital.

In a comment to CNN, Robinson again denied the report.

“That's not us. That's not our words. And that's not something that's typical of me,” Robinson said. “I'm not going to go into detail about how someone fabricated these salacious tabloid lies.”

Reports began to mount early Thursday that Robinson was allegedly pressured by Republican allies to drop out of the race after news broke that he had been presented with an incriminating newspaper article related to his alleged use of adult websites in the 2000s.

Before the CNN report was published, Robinson's campaign communications director made it clear that the reports were false.

“Whoever your sources are here, it is pure fiction,” communications director Michael Lonergan told the Carolina Journal on Thursday.

Fox News Digital contacted Robinson on Thursday but did not immediately receive a response.

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Mark Robinson, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 21, 2024 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) released a statement following CNN's report, arguing that it was the “latest evidence that Mark Robinson is insane, dangerous and completely unfit for the office of governor.”

“Now that many Republicans are warning of the damage Robinson would do as governor, it is clear that the stakes have never been higher and we must keep going full throttle to defeat him in November,” said Izzi Levy, DGA deputy communications director.

North Carolina Republican Rep. Richard Hudson told Fox News that “the allegations are very disturbing,” but he is not calling on Robinson to drop out of the race because he needs to have “an opportunity to explain to the people of North Carolina exactly why these allegations are not true.”

“I hope the governor can convince the people of North Carolina that the allegations are not true,” Hudson said.

Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson speaks at a 2024 campaign rally at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina, on August 14, 2024. (Grant Baldwin/Getty Images)

North Carolinian outlet The Assembly published a separate and detailed report on Sept. 3 alleging that Robinson regularly visited porn shops and viewed material in a private booth, according to former employees and customers. Robinson's alleged visits to adult shops occurred in the 1990s and 2000s, before he entered politics, the report said.

Lonergan disputed the findings of the assembly's report, calling it “complete and total fiction.”

“This false and personal attack on my boss is pure fabrication,” Lonergan told the outlet.

Robinson took office as North Carolina's lieutenant governor in 2021, becoming the first African American to hold the office. Last April, he announced he would run for governor.

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Robinson rose to prominence in 2018 when he delivered an impassioned speech about gun laws during a Greensboro city council meeting before being elected to political office. His speech was in response to local politicians debating whether to cancel a gun show following the Parkland school shooting in Florida that same year.

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“I'm a law-abiding citizen who has never shot anyone,” Robinson said at the meeting, which has been viewed 200 million times. “Every time one of these shootings happens, nobody wants to put the blame where it belongs, which is the shooter. They want to put it on me. They want to turn around and restrict my right.”

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He previously worked as an employee at a furniture factory in North Carolina and is an Army veteran before climbing the GOP political ladder, including through former President Trump and the NRA.