N.C. GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson linked to explosive comments on porn site

Sept. 19 (UPI) -- North Carolina's Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, called himself a "Black Nazi" and supported reinstating slavery in comments made on a pornographic website, CNN reported Thursday.

Robinson, a Black conversative who has long described himself as a devoted Christian opposed to abortion and has voiced hostility towards transgender people, also said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography in anonymous comments made on the "Nude Africa" website more than a decade ago, according to CNN's report published Thursday afternoon.

Robinson, who has been enthusiastically endorsed by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, denied making the comments in a statement issued to the broadcaster, calling the report "tabloid trash."

Shortly before the report came out, he posted a defiant video on social media in which he vowed to continue his campaign even as some of his fellow North Carolina Republicans have reportedly urged him to drop out of his race against North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.

Most polls already showed Robinson decisively trailing Stein, likely hindering Trump's chances to win the crucial state.

CNN linked the comments made on Nude Africa under the user name "minisoldr" to an identical user name employed by Robinson on many different websites and applications across the Internet over the years, including on Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and elsewhere. The user name was also linked by CNN to an email address frequently used by Robinson.

Many of the comments made by "minisoldr" on the pornographic website were lewd and sexually explicit and directly contrast with Robinson's frequently inflammatory public positions as a far-right conservative who is vehemently opposed gay and transgender rights.

For instance, in comments on Nude Africa, Robinson discussed how much he liked transgender pornography.

"I like watching tranny on girl porn! That's f***ng hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in! And yeah I'm a 'perv' too!," he wrote.

He also wrote about secretly "peeping" on women in public gym showers for sexual gratification as a 14-year-old.

In racially inflammatory comments, "minisoldr" maligned the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., attacking him so vehemently and in such racially charged terms that he elicited reactions from other users who accused him of being a white supremacist.

In a 2010 post, Robinson reportedly wrote, "I'm a black NAZI!" and later wrote that he supported the return of slavery, saying, "Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few."

"Let me reassure you -- the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson," Robinson said in the his video, adding he is "staying in this race."

That denial, however, has not prevented other North Carolina Republicans from pressuring him to step aside, according to state political sources who spoke to the Washington Post.

Should Robinson drop out, it would be too late to print up new ballots and so votes cast for him would instead go to a replacement designated by the state's Republican Party.