Mark Robinson, a Republican candidate in North Carolina who is unapproachable even for Donald Trump

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

Donald Trump talks and writes a lot, to the despair of his advisers who dream of a disciplined campaign. But sometimes his silences say more than his words. On September 21, the Republican presidential candidate was at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. As is customary on campaign roads, he paid tribute to many local Republican officials and elected officials in front of his supporters. However, the former president forgot one name, which was nevertheless on the front page of the entire American press: that of Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson. The same one he still described, at the beginning of March, as “Martin Luther King on steroids”.

Two days earlier, CNN had revealed yet another scandal concerning the Republican candidate for governor in this swing state: for several years, between 2008 and 2012, Mark Robinson was a frequent visitor to the forum of a pornographic site called Nude Africa. His discovery of sexuality, he specified, dates back to the age of 14, when he spied on women in the showers of a gym. He also prided himself on being a “black nazi” and presented himself as an amateur of videos of sex with transsexuals. “Hey yeah, I’m a pervert too!”he added. In February, during the Republican primaries, Mark Robinson made transphobic remarks. “If you’re a man on Friday night, and all of a sudden on Saturday you feel like a woman, and you want to go to the women’s restroom in the mall, you’ll be arrested, or whatever else we have to do to you.”, he said.

In favor of the restoration of slavery

Among other shocking gems discovered by CNN, Mark Robinson had stated under a pseudonym, at the time of Barack Obama’s presidency, that he would still prefer Hitler to lead the country. “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I would like to see it brought back. I would certainly buy a few.”he wrote again. In a video broadcast before these revelations by CNN, Mark Robinson denied being the author of these messages, although they were cross-checked by the channel and have since been deleted. He posed as the equivalent of the conservative black judge of the Supreme Court of the United States Clarence Thomas, accused of sexual harassment at the time of his confirmation hearing in 1991. “Clarence Thomas is famous for once saying he was the victim of a high-tech lynching. Well, it seems Mark Robinson is too.”the Republican candidate claimed.

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