Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has issued an ultimatum to North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, saying he “owes President Trump” in the wake of the shocking news of his alleged pornography scandal.
“If the reports about Mark Robinson are a complete media fabrication, he needs to take immediate legal action,” Tillis said in a post on X on Friday.
“If the reports are true, he owes it to President Trump and all Republicans to take responsibility for his actions and put the future of North Carolina and our party above himself,” he said.
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North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson arrives at a “Get Out the Vote” rally in Greensboro, North Carolina on March 2. (Getty Images)
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Tillis' statement came after Robinson denied any involvement in the scandal in a social media video and vowed to remain in the New York gubernatorial race.
“Please be assured that what you see in this article are not the words of Mark Robinson. You know my words, you know my character, you know I have been fully transparent in this campaign and before. Friends, in this campaign my opponents are desperately trying to shift the focus away from the substantive issues and towards the salacious trappings and tabloid rubbish that you are concerned about,” he said in the X video.
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In comments to CNN, Robinson said it was “not ours.”
“These are not ours. They are not our words. And they do not represent me,” Robinson said. “I will not get into the finer points of who invented this salacious tabloid lie.”
North Carolina Lt. Governor and gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson speaks prior to a speech by Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump during a campaign event at Harrah's Cherokee Center on August 14, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina.
CNN, in a report Thursday afternoon, claimed Robinson had previously used a pornographic website called “Nude Africa.”
On the porn site, Robinson allegedly exchanged messages with other users about spying on women in locker rooms as a teenager, calling himself a “black Nazi” and professing a love for transgender porn. According to CNN, the candidates' involvement lasted from 2008 to 2012, long before Robinson entered politics in 2019.
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CNN reported that Robinson used the alias “minisoldr” on the pornography site.
“I came to a dead end where there were two huge vent covers! Which happened to overlook the showers! I sat there for about an hour watching a few girls come in and shower,” Robinson reportedly wrote to Nude Africa.
In another post from 2010, CNN reported that Robinson, while discussing black Republicans, said, “I'm a black Nazi!”
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson speaks at the Path to a Faith and Liberty Majority conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on June 21, 2024. (Getty Images)
The allegations come as North Carolina remains a hotly contested battleground state as the 2024 election approaches.
The 2020 election was decided with President Biden defeating President Trump by narrow margins in key battleground states, including North Carolina.
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Trump won North Carolina by just over one percentage point in 2020, and the latest polls for the crucial 2024 presidential race suggest it's a coin toss, with the former president holding a slight edge.
Fox News Digital's Emma Colton, Paul Steinhauser and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
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