North Carolina's Largest Newspapers Issue Scathing Rebuke of Mark Robinson
Source: Newsweek
Published Sep 21, 2024 at 11:54 AM EDT | Updated Sep 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM EDT
The joint editorial board of North Carolina's two largest newspapers published a sharp rebuke of the state's Lieutenant Governor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson following a series of recent allegations.
The opinion column, published on Thursday in The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer, both McClatchy-owned papers in the battleground state, opened with: "Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson only has one reasonable option now: Quit the race for governor."
Robinson, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, the GOP's presidential nominee, in the governor's race, has said he will not drop out after a CNN story uncovered alleged activity on an adult website more than a decade ago, including posts that Robinson allegedly called himself a "Black NAZI," defended slavery, repeated homophobic slurs and fondly recalled "peeping" on women. CNN did not include many of the posts given their graphic nature.
On Friday, The Washington Post reported that "minisoldr," the username believed to be affiliated with Robinson on the Nude Africa pornography website, also expressed an affinity for Nazi literature. "Mein Kampf is a good read," the user reportedly wrote in a thread on book recommendations. "It's very informative and not at all what I thought it would be. It's a real eye opener."
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