Oops! Mark Robinson Decries ‘Lies' About Porn Site Posts, Then Says They 'Possibly Happened'

WASHINGTON ― North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson lashed out Monday against “the false lies” about him in a CNN investigative report Thursday that uncovered years of disturbing comments he made in a forum on a porn website.

Except then, in the same breath, he suggested maybe those comments were really by him.

During a campaign event, his first since the CNN report triggered a mass exodus of staff on his campaign, Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, vowed to take legal action against CNN over its story. Among other things, the report said Robinson referred to himself as a “black Nazi,” described being sexually aroused by secretly watching women in public showers and called himself a “perv” who likes pornography with transgender people in it ― a sharp contrast to his present-day transphobic rhetoric.

“You’d better understand I am coming after CNN full-throttle,” a visibly angry Robinson told reporters about taking legal action against the news network.

“We’re not here to talk about 15- or 20-year-old salacious, false lies,” he continued in a rant .

But then, amid his shouting, he suggested those past comments may be real after all: “They want to talk about what possibly happened 15 years ago.”

You can watch a video clip of Robinson hedging here .

Robinson began denying the details of the CNN report before it even came out. On Thursday, he preemptively recorded a video to say he wasn’t dropping out of his race over CNN’s “salacious, tabloid trash.” But he’s had a hard time convincing fellow Republicans that the report is nonsense, given how thoroughly CNN’s reporters researched who was behind this username making vile comments on the porn site Nude Africa. Reporters linked the username