Anti-LGBTQ+ GOP Candidate Mark Robinson Expressed an Affinity for Trans Porn, CNN Reports

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, previously the subject of a bombshell report alleging that he once patronized the private booths of an adult bookstore upwards of five days a week, is facing new accusations of anti-LGBTQ+ hypocrisy after CNN unearthed a pornographic message board account that appears to have belonged to the GOP politician.

The CNN KFile report, published Thursday after feverish speculation among the political press about its contents, tied an account with the username “minisoldr” on the adult website Nude Africa to Robinson, demonstrating that he used the same alias across multiple social media platforms. In comments posted between 2008 and 2012, Robinson allegedly announced himself as a “black Nazi” and wrote that “slavery is not bad,” among several other controversial posts, many of which used racial, anti-LGBTQ+, and antisemitic slurs.

North Carolina's GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Has Referred to LGBTQ+ People as "Filth"

Mark Robinson has also argued that trans women should be arrested for using women’s restrooms and cast doubt on the number of Jews killed by Nazis during the holocaust.

Notably, CNN reported that “minisoldr” once wrote, “I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!” (The news outlet referenced multiple “comments” in which the user had expressed an affinity for transgender porn, with this provided as an example.)

Robinson, currently the state’s lieutenant governor, has previously referred to “transgenderism” and “homosexuality” as “filth”, in addition to past statements supporting Holocaust denialism and endorsing a strict anti-abortion stance. Long beset by scandal, including a 2022 admission that he had paid for an abortion in 1989, Robinson has been trailing in the polls behind Democratic opponent Josh Stein, who is currently serving as North Carolina’s attorney general.

The gubernatorial race has taken on added significance amid a close presidential contest between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, with North Carolina positioned as a key battleground state.

Ahead of the CNN report, Robinson released a video statement to the conservative outlet National Review, later posted to X, maintaining that he would be “staying in this race” despite rumored pressure from the state Republican party to drop out. Robinson repeatedly denied to CNN that he was “minisoldr” on Nude Africa ahead of the article’s publication, calling its contents “salacious tabloid lies.”

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