North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson on Tuesday sued CNN over a recent report alleging racially and sexually explicit posts on a pornographic website message board, calling the report reckless and defamatory. announced that they would file a lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed in Wake County Superior Court, comes less than four weeks after television reports prompted many Republican elected officials and candidates, including Donald Trump, to distance themselves from Robinson’s gubernatorial race. It was raised. Robinson announced the lawsuit at a news conference in Raleigh.
CNN said, “Knowingly or recklessly that Mr. Robinson’s data (including his name, date of birth, password, and email address allegedly associated with his NudeAfrica account) had been compromised in multiple previous data breaches. “They chose to publish it even though they ignored it,” the complaint states.
CNN declined to comment, spokeswoman Emily Kuhn said in an email.
At the time of CNN’s report, polls already showed Democratic rival Josh Stein, the incumbent attorney general, leading Robinson. Early voting began Thursday across the state, with well over 50,000 absentee ballots filled out so far.
More than a decade ago, Robinson described himself as a “black Nazi,” said he enjoyed transgender porn, said he liked Hitler better than Barack Obama, and said he liked Hitler more than Barack Obama, CNN reported. He reportedly left comments on the bulletin board more than 10 years ago, including criticizing the president. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described them as “worse than maggots.”
