WASHINGTON — North Carolina GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson has had a rough go since Thursday’s CNN report laid out evidence that he’d made years of disturbing comments in a forum on a porn website, including references to himself as “a Black Nazi” and descriptions of being sexually aroused by spying on girls in public showers.
Robinson has denied the CNN story’s accuracy, calling it “false lies,” even though he suggested — in the same breath — that maybe those porn site comments were from him after all.
But just last week, the North Carolina Republican was describing himself very differently. In fact, he was comparing himself to “people in the Bible.”
Days before the bombshell story came out, Robinson, who is currently the state’s lieutenant governor, was at a North Carolina church telling people that God worked through biblical figures like King David of Israel — and then put himself in the same category as them.
“The one thing that always encourages me is studying the people in the Bible,” Robinson said in Sept. 15 remarks at the First Baptist Church Of Indian Trail.
“No matter whether they were hand-picked like David or whether they were thrust into situations, they weren’t perfect people,” he said. “But they were the perfect people for God to use at that time. And he worked with them where they were, and that’s what God is doing with me.”
The GOP gubernatorial candidate added that because God is working with him, he tries to “be convicted about the things that I do wrong.”
A Robinson campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
The First Baptist Church Of Indian Trail previously posted a video of Robinson’s remarks on its Facebook page, but the video has since been deleted.
American Bridge, a Democratic research group, was able to pull a clip from the video before it was deleted. You can watch it here:
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