Washington. Mark Robinson’s outbursts about women and blacks could cost the former president North Carolina. And with it the White House.
Until recently, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was full of praise for the heavyweight man who is preparing to North Carolina Making history: As the state’s first black governor, he will play a key role in the presidential election in November.
Mark Robinson56 years old, has earned a reputation as an ultra-conservative arsonist with extremely polarizing comments about African Americans, women and transgender people. This makes the man from Greensboro a hero in the Trump scene. Trump calls him “one of the biggest stars of our party” and “the hottest guy in politics.”
Then came Thursday of last week. And everything was different.
The Sender CNN published a report about comments Robinson made long ago on the porn website “Nude Africa”, where he was active under the name “minisoldr”.
For Donald Trump, his protégé’s porn scandal in North Carolina is a catastrophe. He must distance himself. Otherwise, voters could hold him collectively responsible on November 5. © ddp/ZUMA | ANDREA RENAULT
And so underground that the Trump Campaign fears that the wave of outrage will be so brutal that the ex-president will lose North Carolina on November 5th – and thus an important building block on the way to the White House. According to US media reports, Trump’s gun-cocking supporters have been lining up in North Carolina for days to persuade Robinson to withdraw.
Because of sentences like these: “Slavery is not bad. Some people have to be slaves. I wish they would bring slavery back. I would certainly buy a few.” So wrote Robinson, a descendant of those who were once taken from Africa against their will to slave in the new world – and he called himself in all seriousness a “black Nazi”who would have preferred Adolf Hitler to Barack Obama any day.”
When Trump’s vice presidential candidate JD Vance (white T-shirt) recently campaigned in North Carolina with his wife Usha, Mark Robinson remained invisible – out of precaution. © Getty Images via AFP | Allison Joyce
Robinson denies everything. Shortly before the CNN report was published, he preemptively went in front of the cameras and complained about a smear campaign his Democratic rival Josh Stein against himself and declared: “I am not dropping out of the race.” But the last word on this seems to have not yet been spoken. On Sunday, a total of seven of his closest colleagues submitted their resignations.
Republican Congressmenrepresenting North Carolina in Washington, call the allegations “absolutely appalling” and a “burden on the party’s neck” in the last eight weeks before the fateful election in November. Robinson must give up for the good of the party and Donald Trump, it was said. But he doesn’t want to.
Hypocrisy appears to play a major role here. As a politician, Robinson has been rhetorically attacking gays, lesbians and other minorities for years. For example, he called for transgender women to be arrested for using women’s restrooms because, in his view, they are men.
Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat and opponent in the race for the governor’s office, is said to be behind the leak to the media, says Robinson. There is no evidence of this so far © VEASEY CONWAY/The NewYorkTimes/Redux/laif | VEASEY CONWAY/The NewYorkTimes/R
Over a decade ago, things sounded very different. Robinson wrote candidly about how he secret women taking a shower spied on and was sexually aroused.
“I like watching shemale porn with girls. It’s fucking hot!”
At another point he confessed to being a pervert: “I like watching tranny porn with girls. It’s fucking hot! It takes the man out and keeps the man in!”
Robinson denies ever having said such a thing and speaks of “fabricated salacious lies by the tabloid press.” CNN shows in a comprehensive report that the Quotes authentic are.
Meanwhile, moderate Republicans in Washington are reminding us that the politician Robinson, currently deputy governor, has already supported black protesters against police violence as “feebleminded Negroes” Feminists were “fem-nazi sexists” and transgender people “degenerates”. With the Hollywood blockbuster “Black Panther” an “agnostic Jew” and a “Satanic Marxist” Afro-Americans were lured “out of their shekels”
Robinson insulted him vulgarly. Trump compared him to Robinson: Posthumously, civil rights icon Martin Luther King has to serve as the subject of a grotesque game among Republicans in North Carolina. © IMAGO/glasshouseimages | IMAGO/Circa Images
In North Carolina, with its large African-American population, people are probably most shocked by Robinson’s earlier rants about the black icon “MLK,” Dr. Martin Luther King. He called him a “damned communist bastard”whose monument on the Mall in Washington should be torn down. For comparison: Donald Trump described Robinson in March as “Martin Luther King on steroids” and “Martin Luther King times two”. A mega-praise that he may regret today. At a rally in Wilmington/North Carolina Over the weekend, Trump did not mention Robinson’s name once.
Trump praised Robinson as “Martin Luther King times two”
One of Robinson’s biggest outbursts, who comes from a broken family with many children, was a fiery speech shortly after the Corona pandemic about the “charity state” that was weaning people off work. In doing so, his wife, who runs a childcare business, remarkably included high aid funds from Washington.
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Robinson also applies double standards when it comes to abortion. He calls women who have had abortions “murderers” who deserve prison sentences, even though he and his wife terminated their first pregnancy. Abortion in general: Mark Robinson says that women are to blame for this. “who can’t keep their skirts down”.
