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Mark Robinson is mad Republicans wouldn't "stand up and fight for him" after he admitted to being a "black NAZI."
Despite his overwhelming loss in last year's race for North Carolina governor, Mark Robinson still doesn't think he did anything wrong.
The state's Republican former lieutenant governor recently reflected on his failed campaign in an interview with far-right anti-LGBTQ+ pastor John Amanchukwu, in which he again denied reports that he admitted to being a "black NAZI!" and liking transgender porn in comments on an adult website.
"First off, the allegations like I've said time and time again are not true," Robinson said. "Then second off, even if they were true, why does that upset you so bad that a grown man would view pornography?"
A September report from CNN revealed Robinson's full name and known email address attached to an account on Nude Africa, which had posted comments expressing support for reinstating slavery, referring to himself as a "perv," and graphically describing becoming aroused by the memory of “peeping” on women in public gym showers as a teenager. Robinson filed a lawsuit against CNN in October before dropping it in February, calling the case "futile" to pursue.
Robinson's admission on the website that “I like watching [transgender slur] on girl porn! That’s fucking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” was a stark shift from his public comments, in which he said trans people should "find a corner outside somewhere" to defecate instead of a bathroom, and referred to LGBTQ+ people as "maggots" and "flies."
Though his contentious remarks about the LGBTQ+ community — as well as anti-Semitic comments including Holocaust denial and promoting reading Adolf Hitler — were what garnered him the most attention, Robinson now believes that said that he lost because he "kind of backed off of" a few of his core issues to appear more moderate. These include the beliefs that "there are only two genders" and "life begins in the womb, it's sacred and it should be protected in the womb, and there are zero exceptions."
Robinson released a campaign advertisement in August revealing that he had taken his wife to get an abortion several decades ago when they were first dating. He had previously referred to abortion as "murder" and "genocide" on his Facebook page in 2018, and had expressed support for completely banning the care just a week before releasing the ad.
None of this factored into his loss, according to Robinson. Instead, he believes "I was up against a very — I'm not going to say against a tough candidate, certainly not a tough candidate — but I was up against a lot of money." He also blames Republicans who wouldn't "stand up and fight" for him, calling them "abject coward[s]." Robinson, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, lamented, "There's weirdos on one side and there's cowards on the other."
"In the state of Tennessee, they had to have a gaggle of judges in black robes tell people that it's okay to pass a law to keep from sexually mutilating children," he said, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing states to ban gender-affirming care, which has been deemed safe, medically necessary, and life-saving. "The left is crazy. The folks who want to put women in men's- men in women's sports, the folks who want to put pornographic books in elementary schools."
When asked if he would run for office again in N.C. to replace sitting senator Thom Tillis, Robinson said "Yes, if I had a whole lot of money." He does not expect to win, though he added "it wouldn't even matter if I beat him cuz my whole goal would just be to expose him and harass him for what he is," referring to the "coward" Republicans.
When asked what he would do differently from his last campaign, Robinson said, "The number one person that I need to listen to is me ... I was a lot smarter than most of the people who worked on my campaign."
