Mark Robinson, Endorsed by Trump for Governor of North Carolina, Called Himself a “Black Nazi,” Endorsed Slavery, and Described Spying on Women in Public Showers in Porn Forum Comments: Report
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The Republican candidate also attacked Martin Luther King Jr., calling the civil rights icon “worse than a maggot.”

The Republican candidate also attacked Martin Luther King Jr., calling the civil rights icon “worse than a maggot.”

Mark Robinson, who was endorsed in March by Donald Trump in the race for governor of North Carolina, said he supported slavery, called himself a “black NAZI,” and graphically described “peeping” on women in public gym showers on a porn forum called “Nude Africa,” CNN KFile reported Thursday.

The comments were reportedly made “under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.” CNN said it determined the username belonged to the gubernatorial candidate “by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.”

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    317·
    2 months ago

    This feels a little too perfect and on the nose to me. It’s possible that this was someone who did a whole lot of research on him and then hacked this website to inject historic posts. I’m a little worried that this will blow up in our faces.

    Please didn’t see this as some kind of defense of this man. He’s an evil ass that needs to go away. I felt icky even typing that first paragraph, but this train has a lot of steam, and I’m worried about the tracks. I actually waited and debated a long time before posting this, cause I knew it wasn’t going to be taken well by the community.

    • rusticus@lemm.ee
      141·
      2 months ago

      “Inject historic posts”

      lol. This would be easily disproven and would be a criminal act. Republicans often make these kinds of ludicrous conspiracy claims and it always ends up being projection.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 months ago

      This is what they are referencing: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

      Judging by what they are saying, CNN KFile investigation bases their investigation mostly on “Robinson used ‘minisoldr’ all over the internet”. They also claimed to have linked his email, which is slightly sus given that I doubt porn websites are into the habit of making them public. I tried to go over to the one they mentioned and no, it does not scream security, there are BBS better looking than that website, at least their login.

      What seems to have motivated the investigation is that:

      CNN’s reporting on Robinson’s comments comes a few weeks after The Assembly, a North Carolina digital publication, reported that Robinson frequented local video pornography shops in the 1990s and 2000s. The story cited six people who interacted and saw him frequent the stores in Greensboro, North Carolina. A spokesperson for Robinson called the story false and a “complete fiction.”

      So I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true, and I doubt CNN wouldn’t be making those claims if they could be easily disprove as outright lies.

      • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        2 months ago

        Judging by what they are saying, CNN KFile investigation bases their investigation mostly on “Robinson used ‘minisoldr’ all over the internet”.

        Right, That’s what I meant by “Well researched”. Someone looking to build this story could have gathered a whole bunch of his common sayings, his user name from other sites, historic information, etc, and using something like SQL injection, added posts that authentically look like they came from years ago. All the evidence they listed really could be handled that way.

        Again, I hate this man. He is scum. But there is a slight fishy smell about this story that just makes me a little wary.