Starts right now unbelievable story breaking now from Cnns Kfile, the lead starts right now now. Mark robinson, North Carolinas controversial Lieutenant Governor in candidate for governor is in the hot seat once again, for offensive comments, but these, you really have to see to believe he made them on a Porn Site. He called himself a Black Nazi he said that slavery is not bad. And what youre going to hear, what Lieutenant Governor robinson just told cnn about the comments our Kfile Team found plus israel says that they are in a new era of war. 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He described himself on the Porn Site as a quote, Black Nazi. And he wrote posts expressing support for Reinstating Slavery and thats just the stuff we can tell you on television. Cnns Andrew Kaczynski did the digging broke the story and he spoke with Lieutenant Governor Robinson Today. I want to warn viewers that this report disturbs includes some disturbing and rather graphic comments. Andrew, first tell us what you discovered here. Jake cnn found a series of highly disturbing posts made on the Message Board of a pornographic website. More than a decade ago. And we trace them directly to Mark Robinson. We did interview Robinson Today and he categorically denies making these posts. And ill get to that in just a moment here. But first, i want to walk people through just some of them Take A Look right here at this one in one post, robinson called Himself A Quote, Black Nazi. And when describing then President Barak Obama writing quote, i take hitler over any of this thats in washington right now. It even goes beyond that. Another disturbing post, robinson defended slavery, writing quote, slavery is not that bad, and i wish they would bring slavery back. I would certainly buy a few all of these comments and many others that you can read on saying at cnn. Com were made on the Message Board of a Porn Website called Nude Africa. And jake, in addition to those posts, he also expressed views on Nude Africa that sharply contradict his current policies as a socially conservative candidate for governor. For example, he has been vocally antitransgender, but look at What Robinson wrote on the porn Message Board more than a decade ago, writing that he quote, liked watching transgender porn, adding quote that effing hot and called Himself A Quote prb. And another thread that was discussing the story of a woman who said she was raped by her Taxi Driver while drunk. Robinson wrote quote, and the moral of the story, dont Add A drunk white batch. So he wrote all of this stuff years ago before he got into politics how are you sure that its him so cnn, jake, we found that robinson consistently used that same username many soldiers that he used on Nude Africa in alla in s Social Media, you can see it here. He used it on Pinterest Black Planet youtube. He even use it as his twitter handle. His full name was also listed on Nude Africa and an email we found he used on Nude Africa. He used on several other websites. Now the biographical data from multiple websites using the name many soldier matches robinson exactly the exact date of birth for his hometown. The fact that his mother worked at an hbcu, that his favorite episode of the Twilight Zone is number 22. Of course this was all before he was a public figure which would factor into the identification that this all happened back then when he was just a common citizen. So what did Lieutenant Governor robinson have to say about all this today when you talk to them. So robinson calls the story trash. He says its not him. We add to the campaign for comment. We gave them 48 hours to respond. That deadline was this morning and thats when Lieutenant Governor robinson agreed to do a brief interview with us about that here is just a little bit of that interview Lieutenant Governor robinson. Thank you so much for being willing to talk to us. I think well just jump right into it. Do you deny that this account is you will force all let me say. Thank you so much for allowing me to come here and clearly here we absolutely do. I do. This is not us, these are not our words and this is not anything that is characteristic nor has it ever, has it ever been. The people here of North Carolina know i have been completely transparent about my history. All the warts and we put them all out. We let folks know about it but the folks here also know my character. They know who i am, they know my voice, so to speak. This is not my voice, this is not things that we would ever say or even think. So absolutely we do. How do you explain all of the matching details on this profile . The profile on Nude Africa lists your full name as Mark Robinson, the email listed on the account is an email that you used us. You have used elsewhere on the internet, including with your photo. You have used that name many soldier on multiple Social Media accounts, including twitter, pinterest, black planet, and youtube. How can you deny with all of these matching details that this is you . Look, im not going to get into, but nusha of house on my manufactured this all these salacious tabloid lives. But i can tell you this. Theres been over 1 Million spent on me through ai by Billionaire Son whos bound and determined to destroy me. The things that people can do with the internet. Now it was incredible. But what i can tell you is this, again these, are not my words. This is simply Tabloid Trash being used as a distraction from the substantive issues that the people of this state are facing we have addressed it. We have said its not true, and we wish we could move on and get busy with the business of the people of the state okay. Well, these posts, do you take place over a fiveyear period from 2008 to 2013. You mentioned ai. Are you saying that somebody was somehow manufacturing biographical details to exactly match you using your username i have no idea how this was done. I have absolutely no idea how it was done. And i have five weeks left in this campaign to focus on the substantive issues that nor karelinas price. I do not have time for Tabloid Trash. There have been rumors that some of your Campaign Staff have have quit. Can you tell us if thats true or not . Absolutely not. And we are not getting out of this race. There are people who are counting on us to win this race because again, we dont want a governor whos going to be a person that cant be counted on to tell The Truth. And i can assure you my opponent has been taken to Court Offer not telling The Truth in campaigns. And hes been completely dishonest in his ads against me. His camp is so desperate to destroyers. Its just like Clarence Thomas said years ago, this is a Hightech Lynching and back long years ago, they used to use wrote nauta using Table And Jake robinson reiterating with a public video after that interview that he is staying in the race Andrew Kaczynski, remarkable reporting and thank you so much. I want to bring in cnns dianne gallagher, who is in charlotte, North Carolina, as well as in studio here with me, cnn political director david chalian, first to you, diane what are you hearing from your sources about the immediate impact of this story . And we should note in general, this story i think that most people dont believe his denials i will tell you, jake, that before the story even dropped this afternoon, North Carolina political Social Media has been blowing up wondering exactly what was going to be in it. Because i think we should emphasize that it is not unusual for there to be stories about past lets to inflammatory or even bigoted remarks from Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson. Theres a whole host of them. You and i have talked about them for years on your show. There was something different and my phone started going off from with republicans and democrats asking what was different about this because there was this idea that there was something moving within the campaign hey, in part of that is what today is, today is the last day before the state sends out those delayed absenteebymail ballots to military and overseas voters, which means that 11 59 p. M. Is the deadline. If a candidate wants to withdraw from the race. Now there is still some questions on whether they could actually remove their name from a ballot. We saw what happened a few weeks ago with Robert F. Kennedy junior, but there were a lot of discussions and questions about whether or not this could finally end a campaign thats been lagging in the polls. And there has been fear that he could be bringing the downballot down with him here in North Carolina and we should know david chalian, i mean, one of the reasons why this is so resonant is because Lieutenant Governor robinson has a long history of saying wildly offensive things about jews, about women, about lgbtq people. I mean, like this is not necessarily out of character, right . You might even say its of a pattern. Obviously its new unearth information that we didnt have before. But i have not heard from a republican source yet who has expressed Shock Or Surprise that Mark Robinson could be in this kind of moment, right . Given what youve just described, i mean, to diannes point, we should stress this was one of the most highprofile gubernatorial contest of this entire election year. And it was largely due to Mark Robinson and he his nature, his comments, what he said in the past and the way he put portrays himself on the Campaign Trail now, but this has been a race. He has been losing. Most recent poll, Quinnipiac University last week had to pull out. He was losing by ten points, 51 to 41 to attorney general josh stein. So this, this is a race that was already a loser for republicans, probably now, even more so, the question is, what about the reverse . Not just the downballot damage. What about to the top of the ticket . David plouffe, kamala harris, adviser, just tweeted 16 important electoral votes in response to this story, we know that both campaigns, trump and harris, are very focused on this state i this has always been the case of can he lose the Governors Race so badly that actually harris couldp this State Blue for the first time since 2008. We dont know what the outcome of the president ial will be in North Carolina, but its looking more and more likely theres going to be a very uphill battle for republicans in that state. And we should just note there was a much more for mainstream republican congressman mark walker, who was running for the nomination i think hes a pastor didnt have all the baggage and North Carolina republicans went primary process went with a much more riskier bet. David chalian, dianne gallagher, thanks to both you were going to get more reaction to this break looking news from Cnns Kfile, were going to squeeze in a quick break. 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Com if you or a Loved One have Mesothelial Mac will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 800 a31, 3,700 with our exclusive a political aide, Cnns Kfile has uncovered dozens of disturbing comments made on a Porn Site by North Carolinas Lieutenant Governor and Gop Nominee for governor Mark Robinson. This these were comments he made before he was in politics. There are comments in which he called himself a black man nazi. He expresses support for Reinstating Slavery. And then theres a whole bunch of other stuff, but were not going to kink shame here on the show. Lets bring in the panel and start with you. Well, im just done. We know people are allowed to have their stuff, but, you know, calling herself Black Nazi, expressing he was already a really risking a battle them, yeah, already a problem for the republican party. And this just reaffirms that they have let someone come in and again, this is the problem with the gop right now and other republican, its really frustrating. Were letting people walk. There is right there, right there, and were letting these fringe candidates get into the race. And its isolating republican voters from who are in the moderate, who are in the middle, who dont want to be dealing with. Again, im not trying to belittle it at all, but im just saying dealing with these things that arent focused On The Issues that matter to them at home. And were constantly being driven away from talking about policy issues that matter to everyday americans because we have these horrible candidates that are from fringes and none of its excusable and if its acceptable. And we shouldnt even be in this position in the first place. Trump called him a black Martin Luther King said he was better than martin. How embarrassing is that for the gop . Well, how embarrassing is that . You would think for Donald Trump but how bad is it for the republican party . Because the democrats are in a very tight race for North Carolinas 16 electoral votes very important state does he stay on the ballot . What happens if he, if they forced him to quit . Who goes on the ballot . These are all unanswered question. We should, we should note that we heard Lieutenant Governor robinson deny that its him and talk about some sort of Conspiracy Theory in which somebody time traveled back to 2008 and pretended to be him using his name, email address, and all hes same characteristics before he even was a figure in politics, i guess knowing because it came from the future knowing that he was going to be the nominee coming back in time does this actually put or at least help put the 16 electoral votes of North Carolina in play for kamala harris. Look, they were already in play. This is