By Em Steck、Andrew Kaczynski
3小时前
发布于 2026年3月20日，美国东部时间下午5:03
马克·罗宾逊（时任北卡罗来纳州副州长） 于2024年7月15日在威斯康星州密尔沃基举行的共和党全国代表大会上发言。
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前北卡罗来纳州副州长马克·罗宾逊承认，在其2024年州长竞选活动的最后几个月中，他就美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）KFile的一项重磅调查撒了谎，而这项调查揭露了他曾在色情网站上发布大量煽动性和种族主义言论的广泛历史。
罗宾逊最初否认了该报道，并于当年秋季起诉CNN，索赔5000万美元，同时继续推进其州长竞选活动。最终，他以超过14个百分点的差距输给了现任民主党州长乔希·斯坦因。
如今，在最近的一次播客采访中，罗宾逊承认了自己的欺骗行为，并表示他曾对色情和性存在“痴迷”。他声称，为了保护包括唐纳德·特朗普总统在内的身边人，他对CNN的报道“撒谎”是“最权宜之计”。
“我不会说我完全撒谎了，整个故事中有些内容是真实的。有些部分——确实有一些真相存在。”罗宾逊周四在采访中说道。
但他表示：“如果当时为了他们的便利而必须无视真相，我觉得那是正确的做法。”
“我当然不想成为让美国总统输掉选举的人。也不想让其他人失去选举。我猜可能有人觉得我确实这么做了。”他说道。
2024年9月，CNN KFile报道称，罗宾逊在十年前曾在一个色情网站的留言板上发表了一系列煽动性言论，其中包括称自己为“黑人纳粹！”并表示支持恢复奴隶制。这些评论使用的化名是“minisoldr”，CNN通过匹配大量个人信息和共享邮箱地址，成功将其与罗宾逊关联起来。
当时，罗宾逊在接受CNN采访时强烈否认了这一报道：“这不是我们的话。这些言论不属于我，也不符合我的特点。”
尽管面临共和党人要求其退选的压力，罗宾逊仍选择继续参选，其竞选团队成员随后迅速撤离。
卸任后，罗宾逊撤销了对CNN的诽谤诉讼，并誓言退出政坛。
在佛罗里达州牧师乔希·霍尔主持的播客“After the Call”中，罗宾逊进行了长达90分钟的采访，深入探讨了自己的童年、与色情和性痴迷的斗争，并承认了CNN报道中的部分内容。
“最重要的是，你知道，那些指控我观看色情内容并与观看色情内容的人有关联，这些都是绝对真实的。”罗宾逊表示。
他称自己公开谈论色情“痴迷”，是因为他认为像他这样挣扎后重获新生的人，是帮助其他挣扎者的最佳代言人。
“其中唯一的羞耻就是沉溺其中。”他说。
罗宾逊还暗示，他的在线化名“minisoldr”发布的一些内容可能被错误归因于他。“我不否认，在某个时候，我说了足够多的低俗言论，足以让这些内容看起来像是我的所作所为。”
目前尚不清楚罗宾逊具体指的是哪些言论。
他还坚持称，如果在选举前的夏天听从直觉更换竞选团队，他本可以挺过这场丑闻。
“我本应该在夏天更换竞选团队，并将竞选活动引向完全不同的方向。如果那样做了，我相信即使有CNN的丑闻，我仍然会赢得那场选举。”他表示。
当主持人问他是否能回到那个时候做出不同选择或承认此事时，罗宾逊毫不犹豫地回答：
“不，我会做完全相同的决定。”他补充说，这个故事“从来不是关于我的”。
“对于那些针对我的人来说，这不是关于我，而是关于一个远比我更重要的事业。他们知道可以利用我来摧毁我身边的人，包括总统，他们会这么做。所以我会做出完全相同的决定。”
Mark Robinson admits ‘I lied’ about CNN story
By Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski
3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2026, 5:03 PM ET
Mark Robinson, then-North Carolina Lt. Gov., speaks at the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson admitted he lied about a bombshell CNN KFile investigation during the final months of his 2024 gubernatorial campaign, uncovering his extensive history of posting inflammatory and racist comments on a pornography website.
Robinson initially denied the report and sued CNN for $50 million that fall as he marched on with his gubernatorial campaign. Robinson eventually lost to current Democratic Gov. Josh Stein by more than 14 points.
Now, in a recent podcast interview, Robinson has acknowledged his deception and that he had an “obsession” with pornography and sex. He says he lied about the CNN report to protect those around him, including President Donald Trump, because it was “the most expedient thing to do.”
“I won’t say that I completely lied, some of the things about the whole story. Some of it — there’s some truth to it,” Robinson said on Thursday.
But “if I had to ignore the truth at that moment for their expediency, I felt like it was the right thing to do,” said Robinson.
“I certainly don’t want to be the person that costs the president of the United States the election. Didn’t want to cost anyone else their election. I guess there may be some people that feel like that I did,” he said.
CNN’s KFile reported in September 2024 that Robinson made a litany of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board a decade earlier, in which he called himself a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery. The comments were made under an alias, minisoldr, that CNN was able to link to Robinson by matching numerous biographical details and a shared email address.
Robinson strongly denied the story to CNN in an interview at the time. “This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me,” Robinson said.
Despite pressure from Republicans to drop out of the race, Robinson remained in it and his staff quickly fled the campaign.
After leaving office, Robinson dropped the defamation lawsuit against CNN and vowed to retire from politics.
During a 90-minute interview on “After the Call,” a podcast hosted by Florida-based pastor Josh Hall, Robinson delved into his childhood, his struggles with his obsession with sex and pornography, and copped to some of the reporting in CNN’s story.
“More than anything, you know, allegations that I watched pornography and was involved with people that watched pornography, and that that was absolutely true,” Robinson said.
Robinson said he was speaking out about his pornography “obsession” because he believes people like him, who struggled and came back from it, are the best messengers to help others struggling.
“The only shame in it is staying in it,” he said.
Robinson also suggested that some things his online alias, minisoldr, posted were falsely attributed to him. “I don’t deny the fact that at some point, I said enough salacious things where they could certainly make it seem so.”
It is unclear what comments Robinson is referring to.
He also maintained that had he followed his instincts and replaced his staff in the summer before the election, he could have survived the scandal.
“I should have changed campaign teams in the summer and took my campaign in a completely different direction. And if I had, I believe even with the CNN scandal, I believe I still would’ve won that race,” he said.
When asked by the host if he could go back to that time and make that decision or own up to the story, Robinson didn’t hesitate.
“No, I’d do the exact same thing,” he said, adding that the story was “never about me.”
“For the other, for the people who were doing it to me, it wasn’t about me. It was about a cause bunch bigger than that. And they knew that they could use me to destroy, the people around me, up to and including the president, they would do it. And so I’d make the exact same decision.”
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