'You know my character!' Mark Robinson furiously denies still-unreleased CNN report
North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson is lashing out at a still-unpublished CNN report that is so scandalous that it has resulted in some of his fellow North Carolina Republicans urging him to get out of the race.
In a video released on Thursday afternoon, Robinson denied the as-yet-unreleased allegations and told his supporters that he was the victim of a smear campaign.
"The news media is at it again," Robinson said in a video he released on social media. "My opponent is at it again."
He then pledged that whatever words CNN will say he used in its article are "not the words of Mark Robinson," speaking of himself in the third person.
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"You know my words," he continued. "You know my character and you know that I have been completely transparent in this race and before."
Robinson claimed that the scandal is all a plot to change the subject from the issues to what he called "tabloid trash."
"Folks, we've seen this type of stuff in the past as well," he said, comparing himself to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
When Thomas appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he called the proceedings “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.”
"Well, it looks like Mark Robinson is too," he said, once again returning to speaking of himself in the third person.
He confirmed earlier comments from his campaign he's staying in the race.
See the video below or at the link here.
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