Mark Robinson drops CNN lawsuit, says he has no plans to run again
Source: Politico
Mark Robinson, the former North Carolina lieutenant governor whose scandal-plagued candidacy doomed his gubernatorial bid last year, is dropping his libel lawsuit against CNN.
Weeks before the election, CNN released an investigation that alleged Robinson had left messages on a pornography website calling himself a “black NAZI!”, expressing support for slavery and calling Martin Luther King Jr. “worse than a maggot” — among other racist and homophobic comments.
The CNN investigation linked Robinson to the comments through a username Robinson used elsewhere on the internet, along with other shared biographical details from the poster on the site. Robinson, a Republican who would have been North Carolina’s first Black governor if he won, publicly denied making any of the posts.
Robinson — who has expressed other controversial statements on abortion and gay rights — vowed to stay in the race, but the report tanked his campaign. His top staff resigned just days after the scandal, then-candidate Donald Trump no longer mentioned him, and top Republicans denounced him — with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) saying he was “unfit to serve.”
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