March 26 2026, 08:15 
MAGA hate Pastor John Amanchukwu recently criticized former North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, an anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA extremist, for not appearing on his videocast after Robinson recently admitted to lying about his 2024 porn scandal to aid the election chances of President Donald Trump. “He betrayed my trust,” Amanchukwu said.
Late last week, Robinson admitted that he had lied in September 2024 about a bombshell CNN article linking him to comments on a porn website on which Robinson declared himself a “Black Nazi,” expressed support for slavery and Adolf Hitler, used racist language to mock civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., admitted to spying on women in showers, declared his love of transgender porn, and shared details of possibly-fantasy threesomes with his sister-in-law.
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Robinson immediately denied the report, claiming that artificial intelligence had generated the online comments attributed to him by somehow hacking into his private accounts and creating comments that were then timestamped as being posted over a decade ago.
He refused to drop out of his race to become his state’s next governor and threatened to sue CNN, but later dropped his lawsuit. Though the state Republican party stood behind him, his campaign staff largely abandoned him soon afterward.
Trump had repeatedly endorsed Robinson, calling him “better than [Black civil rights icon] Martin Luther King” and “Martin Luther King on steroids.” But when the scandal broke, Trump pretended not to know much about him. Less than a month later, Robinson lost the election to his Democratic opponent, Josh Stein, by nearly 15 percentage points.
Last week, Robinson admitted, “I won’t say that I completely lied … [but] some of the things about the whole story, some of it, there’s some truth to it.” Robinson explained that “the most expedient thing to do for the people around me was to just continue to fight,” adding, “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.’”
In a recent broadcast, Amanchukwu — who has previously claimed that school theater programs are “incubation systems for perversion” and who has asked God to “break” the wrists of “Satanic” gay men — criticized Robinson saying, “Me and him had an explosive conversation this past Friday, and he was supposed to come on my show to address this issue…. He betrayed my trust.”
Criticizing Robinson, Amanchukwu said he considered Robinson’s excuse of lying to protect the president was “a cheap shot.”
“It’s a safe way to escape responsibility,” Amanchukwu said. “You didn’t do it to protect anyone but yourself.” He also said that he had previously hosted Robinson him nearly 4 or 5 times in the past, but that Robinson broke a promise to discuss his recent confession on his show, citing “contractual agreements” and the fact that he’s working on his own broadcast project.
“There were many people who told me that I shouldn’t trust him… that there was additional information that could potentially come out about him,” Amanchukwu said. “It’s apparent that Mark has been doing what’s in the best interest of Mark.”
Robinson gained infamy during his time as North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. by stating that he considers LGBTQ+ people to be “filthy” “demons” who “mentally rape” children. Among his many anti-LGBTQ+ statements, he called homosexuality “an abominable sin,” compared LGBTQ+ people to cow dung, and Satanic demons, and said trans people should defecate on public street corners outside rather than using bathrooms matching their gender identity.
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