Former North Carolina lieutenant governor and 2024 Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson says he lied about his porn “obsession” to protect Donald Trump during the 2024 election.

Robinson was the inaugural guest on the first episode of Florida-based pastor Josh Hall’s podcast After the Call, where he addressed the scandal that effectively cratered his rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Trump-endorsed campaign.

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In September 2024, CNN published a report linking Robinson – via biographical details and a shared email address – to racist and sexually explicit comments posted on an adult website between 2008 and 2012. Among the posts was one in which Robinson allegedly described himself as “a Black Nazi.” In another, he allegedly described himself as “a perv” while expressing his enthusiasm for adult content featuring transgender women. Other posts asserted that “slavery is not bad,” described a photo of two men kissing as “sick a** f**got bulls**t,” and referred to Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. using racial slurs.

The CNN story reportedly led to pressure from other Republicans – including from then-candidate Trump’s campaign – urging Robinson to drop out of the North Carolina lieutenant governor’s race. But Robinson refused, denying the allegations in the report and describing them as “manufactured… tabloid lies.” He went so far as to sue CNN for defamation, but later dropped the lawsuit.

More than a year after he lost his bid to Democrat Josh Stein, however, Robinson says the allegations that he “watched pornography and was involved with people that watched pornography” were “absolutely true.”

“I won’t say that I completely lied,” he told Hill on After the Call. “Some of the things about the whole story, some of it, there’s some truth to it.”

When pressed by Hill on why he lied about the allegations, Robinson explained that “the most expedient thing to do for the people around me was to just continue to fight.”

“I felt like it was the right thing to do. ‘We can deal with this on the back end, but I certainly don’t want to be the person that cost the president of the United States the election,’” he said.

Earlier in their conversation, Robinson admitted to what he described as “an obsession with pornography.”

“I spent a large portion of my life as a young adult walking on the fence like this,” he said. “On this right-hand foot right here, oh, I believe, I believe in Jesus, I believe in God. On this left-hand foot right here, oh, I also like to party. I also like to tell dirty jokes. I also like to watch pornography, you know? So, I was this dual person doing these dual things.”

“I don’t know where it came from, an obsession with pornography, an obsession with sex,” he added.

Even prior to CNN’s September 2024 investigation, Robinson was considered a fringe MAGA candidate. Among his many anti-LGBTQ+ statements, he has called homosexuality “an abominable sin,” has compared LGBTQ+ people to cow dung and Satanic demons, and said trans people should defecate on public street corners outside rather than using bathrooms that align with their gender identity. He has also made numerous racist and antisemitic comments, including denying the Holocaust. In one social media comment, he said that he would “accept ‘Gay Pride’” when liberals “accept ‘White Pride.’” He has also said that abortions are only for women who cannot keep their skirts on.

Hill did not question Robinson about any of these other incendiary statements. When the host asked whether he would deal with the allegations in the CNN report honestly if he could go back to September 2024, Robinson said he would not.

“I’d do the exact same thing,” he said.

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