Mark Robinson’s History of Controversial Claims

Trump-endorsed North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson has shaken off controversy after controversy over the years, although this week’s claims that he described himself as a “black NAZI” on an adult website could threaten to bring him down.
Robinson, who has been endorsed by Trump in the state governor’s race this year, has said he will not drop out after an explosive story published by CNN uncovered alleged activity on an adult website more than a decade ago, also said to have shown Robinson expressing support for bringing back slavery and said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography.
Among the graphic, racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic comments CNN resurfaced, the person the outlet identifies as Robinson said: “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few.”
“I’d take Hitler over any of the sh** that’s in Washington right now!” he allegedly wrote in 2012 during the Obama administration. Robinson has denied he was behind the posts.
While shocking, it is not the only astonishing story attached to Robinson’s political history. Newsweek has unearthed some of the most controversial and misleading statements that Robinson has made during his political career.
Even Robinson’s response to recent allegations has attracted attention when he compared himself to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
“Clarence Thomas famously once said he was the victim of high-tech lynching,” Robinson said. “Well, it looks like Mark Robinson is too.”
Clarence Thomas used the term “high-tech lynching” in 1991 during his confirmation hearing. Then-Senator Joe Biden asked if he had anything he wanted to say in response to the accusations from Anita Hill, who had accused Thomas of sexually harassing her while she worked as an adviser to him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Thomas denied the claims and accused members of Congress’ staff of searching for “dirt” on him and leaking it to the media.
“And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you,” Thomas said.
This appears to be where the comparisons end, as Thomas has not been accused of allegations similar to Robinson’s.
In a Facebook post that was widely quoted in 2018, Robinson wrote, “Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash.”
In context, the full quote appeared to be a clumsily and insensitively written point about gun control, as the full post stated: “The center and leftist leaning Weimar Republic put heavy gun ownership restrictions on German citizens long before the Nazis took power.
“This foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash. Repeating that hogwash makes the conservative argument against the current attempts by liberal Marxist to push Unconstitutional gun control measures in this Nation look FOOLISH.”
However, in 2017, Robinson quoted the words “‘6 million jews'” in another Facebook post that tried to argue that there was less widespread discussion of Communist persecution compared to the deaths caused by the Holocaust.
“There is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the NAZI and the ‘6 million Jews’ they murdered,” Robinson wrote.
“There is also a REASON those same liberals DO NOT FILL the airwaves with programs about the Communist and the 100+ million PEOPLE they murdered throughout the 20th century.”
The post is still online.
In 2021, Robinson referred to transgenderism and homosexuality as “filth” when discussing what topics children should be taught in schools.
“There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,” Robinson said while speaking at the Asbury Baptist Church in Seagrove. The comments led to calls for resignation, the White House calling his words “repugnant and offensive.”
He attempted to address the comments in a video posted on Facebook, but ended up saying that talking about “concepts of transgenderism” in the classroom was “abhorrent.”
After the 2016 shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Robinson wrote on Facebook, “I pray for the souls of all those killed, healing for all those wounded, and comfort for the family members of the terrorist shooting in Orlando.
“However, homosexuality is STILL an abominable sin and I WILL NOT join in ‘celebrating gay pride’ nor will I fly their sacrilegious flag on my page.”
Amid widespread conversation among conservatives on the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools, Robinson’s office released a report claiming it had found six types of indoctrination in education, including sexualization of kids, white shaming, and shaming of conservative and Republican beliefs.
The report contained 500 allegations but only a handful supported by visual evidence.
“What this is, is an attempt to stop the abuse of the teaching profession by a few who are using that profession to put undue pressure on young minds,” Robinson said.
“Those are the folks that are abusing that privilege, and that is what this is about, about ending that.”
Democratic State Senator Jay Chaudhuri said the premise of the report was “a Fox News-driven issue that’s more about fear-mongering and has turned into a fishing expedition.”
In a clip circulated earlier this year, filmed during a speech to Lake Church in White Lake, North Carolina, Robinson said that freedom was worth protecting “at all cost”, suggesting that some people “need killing” to do so.
Robinson invoked comparisons to the United States military’s actions in World War II, saying that after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, “We didn’t quibble about it. We didn’t argue about it. We didn’t fight about it. We killed it.”
“Some liberal somewhere is gonna say that sounds awful. Too bad,” Robinson added.
“Get mad at me if you want to. Some folks need killing. It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity.”
His spokesperson told Newsweek at the time that he was speaking about “the enemies of the U.S. and the Allied Powers during World War II, the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy.”