Last October 15, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN for defamation over its report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board. (CNN based its item on
prior reporting by Bryan Anderson at The Assembly.) "CNN chose to publish despite knowing or recklessly disregarding that Lt. Gov. Robinson’s data — including his name, date of birth, passwords, and the email address supposedly associated with the NudeAfrica account — were previously compromised by multiple data breaches,” the lawsuit claimed. Robinson also called CNN's reporting a “high-tech lynching” of a candidate “who has been targeted from Day 1 by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed.”
Robinson had hired Jesse R. Binnall, a well known trumpist litigator and a partner in the Binnall Law Group of Alexandria, Va., to represent him and find out (O.J. Simpson style) who in the world who wasn't Mark Robinson had posted those outrageous comments on porn sites under Robinson's own screen name Minisoldr.
Yesterday, Robinson tacitly admitted his defamation suit was all political theater. He ended it on Twitter with a whimper and called on Jesus like any guilty politician would:
"The words of our Savior, along with the earthly reality that costly litigation and political gamesmanship by my detractors makes clear that continuing to pursue retribution from CNN is a futile effort. That is why I have asked Jesse Binnall and his legal team to terminate any continued attempt to litigate with CNN on my or my family’s behalf."
Robinson confirmed via X that he will not run for Senate next year and does not plan to take office in the future.
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