While North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s campaign staff have fled his campaign in the days that followed CNN’s bombshell report on his past comments on adult website forums, the Trump-Vance campaign hasn’t tried to distance itself from Robinson.

Donald Trump endorsed Robinson, calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids.” But when asked about Robinson’s alleged online comments where he called himself a “black Nazi,” praised Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, said he wished slavery would come back so he could “buy a few,” discussed his love of adult movies involving trans women, and shared sexual fantasies involving his sister-in-law and urine, Trump said he didn’t even know what was going on.

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“Are you going to pull your endorsement of Mark Robinson?” Libby Dean of News Nation asked Trump yesterday.

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“Uhh, I don’t know the situation,” Trump said before walking away.

Commenters had trouble accepting that the very online Trump knew that there was “a situation” involving Robinson – he used the term without prompting – without knowing what happened, even though it has been discussed extensively online and on television.

Others suggested that Trump didn’t withdraw his endorsement of Robinson because he wasn’t bothered by Robinson’s online history.

“Extreme birds of a feather,” White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates joked.