Transcripts For CNN CNN Newsroom With Wolf Blitzer 20240921

Transcripts For CNN CNN Newsroom With Wolf Blitzer 20240921

Candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, who is a Lieutenant Governor right now, one of the partys most controversial figures engulfed in Scandal And Battleground State Race despite calls from some fellow republicans to step down, a Bombshell Cnn Report on Earth Thing dozens of rather lewd comments or robinson made on a pornography forum. The posts include robinson calling Himself A Quote Black Nazi defending slavery even using racist language to insult the late Civil Rights icon, dr. Martin Luther King junior will speak to Kings Son about those shocking comments in just a few but first, your Cnn Kfile senior editor, andrew kaczynski. Good morning. Andrew wolf, my colleague, eleni, found a series of highly disturbing posts, more than a decade ago on the Message Board of a pornographic website. And we traced them directly to Mark Robinson. Now we did interview robinson yesterday. Any categorically denies making these posts. Ill get to that in just one moment. But first, i want to walk people through just some of them. Take a look at this post, right here in one post, robinson called Himself A Quote, Black Nazi. And when discussing and then President Barak Obama in 2012 Writing Quote i take hitler over any of the, thats in washington right now. It even goes beyond that. Another disturbing post, robinson defended slavery, Writing Quote, slavery is not that bad, and i wish they would bring back slavery. I would certainly buy a few. He also disparate as you mentioned, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King junior, using a slur to refer to them and calling him a quote, commie faster, all those comments and others, you can read on cnn. Com were made on the Message Board of a Porn Website called nude Africa And Wolf in addition to those posts, he also express views on Nude Africa. Thats sharply contradict his current policies as a socially conservative candidate for governor, for example, he has been vocally antitransgender, but look at What Robinson wrote on the porn Message Board a decade ago that he liked, quote, watching transgender porn, adding quote that effing hot and called Himself A Quote heard in another thread that was discussing the story of a woman who said she had been raped by her Taxi Driver while she was drunk, robinson wrote quote, and the moral of this story dont f, a drunk white so we wrote all this years ago, as you know, andrew when he was an ordinary citizen before he even got into politics how do we know its him . Well wolf, we found that robinson consistently used the same username, many soldier that he used on Nude Africa in all of his Social Media. You can see it on pinterest black planet, youtube he even previously used it as his twitter handle. Now his full name was even also listed on Nude Africa and the email that we found that he used there. He also used on several other websites, the biographical data from multiple websites using many soldier including Nude Africa matches robinsons, theres an exact date of birth theres his hometown, theres a fact his mother worked at an hbcu, even that his favorite episode of the Twilight Zone is number 22 so errol, what does robinson say about all of This Robinson is calling the story trash. He says, its not him. Now we did ask the campaign for comment. We gave them 48 hours to respond. That deadline was yesterday and thats when Lieutenant Governor robinson agreed to do a Brief Interview with us. Here is just a little bit of that Lieutenant Governor robinson. Thank you so much for being willing to talk to us. I think well just jump right into it. Do you deny that this account is you will force all let me say. Thank you so much for allowing me to come here and clearly here, we absolutely i do. I do. This is not us, these are not our words and this is not anything that is curious for the rest of me nor has it ever, has it ever been the people here of North Carolina . No, i have been completely transparent about my history. All the wards and we put them all out. We let folks know about it but the folks here also know my character. They know who i am, they know my voice, so to speak. This is not my voice is not claims that we would ever say or even think. So. Absolutely. We do. How do you explain all of the matching details on this profile . The profile on Nude Africa lists your full name as Mark Robinson the email listed on the account is an email that you used have used elsewhere on the internet . Including with your photo, you have used that name many soldier on multiple Social Media accounts, including twitter, pinterest, black planet, and youtube. How can you deny with all of these matching details that this is you . Look, im not going to get into the Minutia House on my manufactured this all these salacious tabloid lives. But i can tell you this. Theres been over 1 Million spent on me through ai about Billionaire Son whos bound and determined to destroy me. The things that people can do with the internet. Now this incredible, but what i can tell you is this, again so, not. My words. This is simply Tabloid Trash being used as a distraction from the substantive issues that the people of this state are facing we have addressed it. We have said its not true and we wish we could move on and get busy with the business of the people of the state okay. Well, these posts, they do take place over a fiveyear period from 2008 to 2013 you mentioned ai. Are you saying that somebody was somehow manufacturing biographical details to exactly match you using your username i have no idea how this was done. I have absolutely no idea how it was done. And i have five weeks left in this campaign to focus on the substantive issues that north carolinians price i did not have time for Tabloid Trash. There have been rumors that some of your Campaign Staff have have quit. Can you tell us if thats true or not absolutely not. And we are not getting out of this race. There are people who are counting on most of win this race. Because again, we dont want a governor whos going to be a person that cant be counted on to tell The Truth. And i can assure you my opponent has been taken to court for not telling The Truth in campaigns, and hes been completely dishonest in his ads against me because camp is so desperate to destroyers, its just like Clarence Thomas im hamas said years ago, this is a Hightech Lynching and, you know, bag along years ago. But used to use wrote nauta using table and Lieutenant Governor robinson released a video shortly after our interview reiterating that he plans to stay in the race. Wolf andrew, i also tell me a little bit more about those comments that robinson made about dr. Martin Luther King junior yeah. I mentioned those a little bit earlier, wolf, he used a slur as i mentioned for mlk Martin Luther King junior, he called him Martin Lucifer and then used a slur that I Cant say on air. He also called him a quote, commie. And that was back when they were putting his memorial in washington, dc on the national mall andrew. Thanks for your excellent reporting. Thank your team as well. I want to bring in right now the Civil Rights advocate, Martin Luther King, the third, the son of the Civil Rights icon. Hes joining us from atlanta, martin. Thank you so much for joining us. First of all, whats your reaction to Mark Robinsons clearly racist comments about your father . Well, it is certainly very tragic that instead of elevating what Civil Rights leaders did, and people in North Carolina who on the front lines of the modern Civil Rights movement, particularly in greensboro where the Sit In Movement occurred. And by the way, weigh on this day, wolf, 66 years ago, my father was stabbed in harlem. Wow signing his book by a black woman from a black woman by the name of ai zoila curry. My point for making that is after dad was stabbed the next day, he was able to share with the media and he talked about the dangerous rhetoric that is being propagated in our in the nation 66 years ago, 66 years, excuse me later, that rhetoric is being propagated, or at least its been alleged that its being propagated by a person whos running for the governor of the state of North Carolina. And its a very, very sad scenario, as i said, i feel that people should be lifting up the contributions that have been made by north carolinians to move things forward in our nation around civil and Human Rights so that all people are treated with Dignity And Respect yeah, thats so important former President Trump, as you probably know, thats at some high praise for robinson in the past. Let me play this one clip. Listen to this this is Martin Luther King on steroids. I think youre better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times 21 of the great stars of the party. What are the great stars in politics . Lieutenant governor Mark Robinson so whats your response to that well, first of all again, i dont even know exactly what that means, but it does not mean anything positive. The fact that these things have been attributed to what this person stood for. And it certainly has nothing to do with what my father and his team and others have stood for about decency, about justice, about creating the kind of nation that where all people are treated a tree are treated fairly and its unfortunate. Again. But maybe not surprising. Weve seen this kind kind of behavior from the former president many times. And the fact that people still embrace that theres a frac, their fraction, i think far more people want to see us as a nation that works together. We can disagree doing my Fathers Era and my mothers leadership. They taught us they were not the only ones, but they taught us how to disagree without being disagreeable. Variable. Thats the spirit we must bring civility back to the political landscape and i think we have to work on that every day we are far better as the nation than the behavior that we see when we make these kind of this kind of divisive rhetoric and language, which is causing all kinds of things in the political spaces in our nations just in general. Yeah, so important i wish, i wish there would have been writing in a forum discussing black republicans back in 2010, Martin Robinson stated, and it was unprovoked, quote, im a Black Nazi reading those comments, what went through your mind ever like to say that somebody is crazy. Were demented. But that was the first thing at this person is way off the rocker that you would admire someone who is such an evil force and figure. And did so much harm in relationship to killing jewish people and other things. So that you empathize with this person. Theres got to be something wrong with you. And it also says that there should be concerns about north carolinians who have allowed this person to emerge as one whos providing leadership. He is a Lieutenant Governor. At The End of the day, we still have a lot of work to do to stamp out Hatred Hostility to stamp out this kind of behavior Martin Luther King the third, thanks as usual for joining us thank you. And still ahead this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris is on her way to atlanta right now. And former President Trump will be in georgia for the first time in seven weeks. Were going to discuss the pivotal race of the state pivotal role of the state, i should say less than 50 days from the election the Birth Mono one or facility was overwhelming. The idea that this fictional character played a role in politics is Bananas Tv only moments that shaped our culture premieres sunday at nine on cnn its time to grow your business create a website. How go daddy, coding, but all that writing. 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