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Mark Robinson, the former NC lieutenant governor who has stayed relatively quiet since his failed gubernatorial campaign in 2024, is back and ready to "tell the truth." In a new podcast episode titled "Mark Robinson Finally Admits It," Robinson admitted Thursday to an "obsession" with pornography and sex, and he acknowledged that he lied back in 2024 when a CNN report uncovered lewd and racist remarks he had previously made on a porn forum. He did so then, he said, in order to protect Trump's campaign. Even in his honesty, Robinson remained defensive, and he seemed to believe that he did something righteous by lying. Even though he wanted to own up to it, he said, other people would be affected, so it would be "selfish" to be truthful.
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More: "The most expedient thing to do for the people around me was to continue to fight, and if I had to ignore the truth at that moment for their expediency, I felt like it was the right thing to do," Robinson said. "We can deal with this on the back end, but I certainly don't want to be the person that costs the president of the United States the election. Didn't want to cost anyone else their election."
Seriously?
Though he admitted feeling regret following his 2024 loss, Robinson said he does not regret lying and would make the same decision again. Instead, one of his "biggest regrets" was not changing his staff earlier in the campaign, because if he had, he would've won, he said.
This all seems to be a rather recent epiphany for Robinson, given that just eight months ago, Robinson appeared on a different podcast and denied CNN's report, calling it "fake news." Even if it were true, he said then, what's so bad about a grown man watching pornography in the privacy of his own home?
In that sense, yes, Robinson is right. But the reason why Robinson was unfit for public office, and the reason why he lost the election, isn't because he used to watch porn, or even that he lied about it. It's that he used the porn forum to say vile things, including "Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves" and "I'm a black NAZI!"