Senator Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) says if reporting about North Carolina GOP candidate Mark Robinson’s alleged comments on a porn site is false, Robinson should take legal action. But if the reporting is true, he should drop out of the gubernatorial race against state attorney general Josh Stein, the Tar Heel State senator says.
“If the reporting on Mark Robinson is a total media fabrication, he needs to take immediate legal action,” Tillis wrote in a post on X. “If the reporting is true, he owes it to President Trump and every Republican to take accountability for his actions and put the future of NC & our party before himself.”
Tillis’s statement on Friday came in response to a bombshell CNN report one day earlier that alleged Robinson made inappropriate comments on a porn site called Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012 in which he said, among other things, that he is a “black NAZI” and he believes slavery should be brought back.
“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it [slavery] back. I would certainly buy a few,” he said, according to the report.
The report comes more than a year after North Carolina GOP officials and operatives began privately warning about damning opposition research on the lieutenant governor, Audrey Fahlberg reports.
Robinson, for his part, has dismissed the reporting as false and said he plans to stay in the race.