Mark Robinson Sues CNN Over Report Linking Him to Lewd Comments on Porn Site

[Zorro]

Source: New York Times

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, the embattled Republican nominee for governor, filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN, which published an article last month linking him to lewd and offensive comments made years ago on a pornography website.

Mr. Robinson said at a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., that he had not made the comments that the CNN report attributed to him.

The report said that in posts on a porn site called Nude Africa, Mr. Robinson, who is running as a social conservative, described himself as a “black Nazi,” defended slavery and wrote that he enjoyed watching transgender porn.

“When times of trouble come in this thing we call politics, it separates the strong folks from the weak,” Mr. Robinson said at the news conference on Tuesday, standing with his lawyer, Jesse Binnall. “The weak will turn and run, and the strong will stand and fight. And that’s what we’re doing here today.”

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Perhaps Invasion of Privacy, but not Defamation.

The content was true.

[cstanleytech]

5. I don't see a case for invasion of privacy.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Depends how they got the information and whether it was private or public.

But certainly not defamation. Truth is a valid precedented defense.

[cstanleytech]

10. Plus it's extremely telling that he didn't immediately file suit.

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. Extremely telling, I'd say!

Almost as if he was awaiting news as to what exactly they had on him.

[cstanleytech]

43. I suspect it was actually that he saw his poll numbers tanking and is hoping it will stop it.

[Gore1FL]

11. He posted on a message board.

That sounds pretty public.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. OK, any lawsuit will be tossed at this point.

[Layzeebeaver]

29. typically, any posts on a board are owned by the board.

you say something publicly, its public. Especially if the board in question is not milking your post for money.

He's fucked.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. He just needs to fuck all the way off, now, and forever

[Think. Again.]

3. Be careful now, l'il Markie...

Streisand effect:

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. -Wikipedia

[Ford_Prefect]

4. The only thing he'll prove by this is that they told the truth. Isn't a free press is one of our constitutional rights

intended to protect us from predators like Robinson?

[sboatcar]

6. That's gonna get ugly under discovery

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Gee, I hope so!

[quakerboy]

21. it won't go that far

This is trying to pretend innocence for any persuadable voter. Bet money, after election day this lawsuit disappears.

[sboatcar]

22. For sure

They have to prove those things weren't true, and given all the info that cnn posted, I doubt he'd be able to do that. I'm sure CNN is like "Yep, please do sue us, it will be hilarious"

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

25. Yeah, looking forward to that.

Keep digging that hole deeper, dude!

[hadEnuf]

9. He's a scumbag, a Nazi and he supports the reintroduction of making human beings slaves again in this country.

He is also a member of a political party that is notorious and thrives on digging up mostly false information on political rivals and private citizens to ruin or taint them.

I think a jury will laugh his Nazi ass right out of a courtroom.

[Wiz Imp]

24. A Jury will never see it

It's a lawsuit completely without merit so the judge will toss it

[hadEnuf]

37. Hopefully.

It's a frivolous lawsuit.

[moreland01]

12. He'll drop the lawsuit

right after he loses in November. There is no merit to it. He just wants to look trump-tough before election day.

[LymphocyteLover]

33. exactly

[Mz Pip]

13. Discovery should be entertaining!

[Bo Zarts]

32. Bingo!

My thoughts exactly.

[verargert]

14. idiots keep forgetting about - discovery - all that garbage that is not part of comes out also

[Oopsie Daisy]

15. This is a tactic from Trump's playbook. It's bravado. It's temporary.

If he ever gets around to filing (IF!) then he'll withdraw it in short order.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

16. Evil, Preverted and a fool with $$

He'll go far

[mdbl]

18. So typical. Start a lawsuit to make it look like you're innocent

none of the dumb magasphere will know the difference.

[Martin68]

20. Good luck with that, Mark. Keep digging that hole deeper...

[Bolo Boffin]

23. Discovery...

It's not just a Star Trek series.

[Tarc]

26. This lawsuit will never be heard, no "discovery" or any of that

This was filed to fundraise. "Kamala and the are out to get me, we need your help!" will soon be pelting his donor lists. Once he's conned his sheep base, the lawsuit will be dismissed or withdrawn.

[mwb970]

27. Liar!

[SunSeeker]

28. Oh goodie! Can't wait for the depos!

[johnnyfins]

30. He's just mad

because Stephen Cheung is beating him in TSF's new Goering competition.

[COL Mustard]

31. Discovery should be very interesting...

I'm sure CNN didn't just randomly publish something like that.

[rondawson]

34. Robinson's defamation suit

Someone needs to explain to him that truth is an absolute defense.

[JT45242]

35. Discovery will be a bitch...

This is of course, simply a political stunt.

No way that this gets to discovery stage. Cause real criming might come out.

But if it does somehow get to discovery before he drops this, it will be awesome to watch.

[LisaL]

36. I think his plan is to file it before the election, then drop it afterwards.

I don't think he wants to go to discovery here.

[JT45242]

41. I think you're right...but still hoping with popcorn ready

[struggle4progress]

38. ... On the Nude Africa website in both comments and his profile, minisoldr offered numerous details that align precisely

with Robinson’s personal history.

In his profile, minisoldr listed his full name as “mark robinson” and disclosed a private email address Robinson used elsewhere online. In 2012, a user responded to a comment by calling minisoldr “Mark.”

Minisoldr mentioned in 2008 being married for 18 years, which corresponds with Robinson’s marriage to Yolanda Hill in 1990. In 2011, minisoldr wrote he had been married 21 years. Minisoldr wrote in a 2011 post that he lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, the same town where Robinson lived at the time and currently lives.

In a post in 2012, minisoldr said he served in the Army in the 1980s, during the same time period as Robinson. In his sexually graphic comments detailing watching women in the showers in 2011, minisoldr wrote that his mother worked at an Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Robinson’s mother worked as a custodian at North Carolina A&T State University, an HBCU located in Greensboro ...

dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum
Andrew Kaczynski Em Steck
By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
Published 3:21 PM EDT, Thu September 19, 2024

[struggle4progress]

39. ... The lawsuit ... also names a man named Louis Money as a defendant. Money is a former clerk at a porn store

who told news outlets that Robinson had been a regular customer in his store in the past. Money stands by his claims, but Robinson alleges in his suit that he merely stopped by the store occasionally to “socialize” ... At a press conference Tuesday, Robinson called the report a “high-tech lynching,” but neither he nor his lawyer provided any evidence that would appear to contradict CNN’s reporting ...

Robinson sues CNN
Oct. 15, 2024, 3:16 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones

[struggle4progress]

40. ... Robinson said he was given the chance to respond to CNN's claims but wasn't able to examine the data ...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/north-carolina-republican-sues-cnn-over-report-posts-pornography-site-2024-10-15/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. MAGA candidate's lawsuit against CNN has 'no exhibits substantiating denials': analyst

This is a 16 page poorly done petition. Most defamation petitions done by real lawyers are much longer and have facts recited.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/mark-robinson-cnn-lawsuit-2669402247/

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on Tuesday unveiled a defamation lawsuit against CNN over its reports that he once boasted about being a "Black Nazi" in posts made on a pornographic web forum.

But independent journalist Bryan Anderson, a former North Carolina Statehouse reporter for the Associated Press, posted a link to Robinson's entire 16-page lawsuit and found that it contains "no exhibits substantiating Robinson’s denials" made by CNN in its report.

In fact, an examination of the entire lawsuit shows that Anderson's description is accurate.

It contains no evidence that CNN was incorrect about Robinson's history of making racist, sexist, homophobic, and overall offensive posts on the website NudeAfrica last decade.

This petition was evidently filed to try to draw attention away from Robinson