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... Controversy erupted last week after reports emerged claiming that Robinson made a series of inflammatory posts to an adult website, including a description of himself as a "Black Nazi," praise for Adolf Hitler's Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf and a fond recollection of "peeping" on women in bathrooms.

Trump, who endorsed Robinson and praised him as "Martin Luther King on steroids," has been conspicuously silent on the scandal, perhaps due to North Carolina being a pivotal swing state that could decide a tight contest in this year's presidential election.

The former president finally weighed in on Thursday, telling a reporter at New York's Trump Tower the following when asked whether he planned to withdraw his endorsement of Robinson: "Uh, I don't know the situation." ...