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Ha!
Via #Harris spox Sarafina Chitika on the hellsite, directly to Trump, who included the CNN story I posted earlier (mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113… ):
Donald #Trump and #MarkRobinson have been all over the trail together this cycle. Trump elevated and endorsed this man at every opportunity.
There's no running away from this for
@realDonaldTrump
.
Welp. Here’s why they want to kick him off the ballot: 🧵 1/...“#MarkRobinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of #NorthCarolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.”
cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kf…
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •2/ Ooof!
Via Elie Mystal:
This Trump message aged... well, perfectly, actually, if you understand the people he's talking to.
Kamala HQ:
Trump: Mark Robinson is Martin Luther King on steroids. He is better than Martin Luther King
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •3/ I won't bother to copy over, but Kamala HQ also posted a bunch of "thumbs up" smiley photos of Trump with Robinson with a 👍🏼 over them.
*chef's kiss*
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •4/ And via Jeet Heer:
You can't force someone to drop out for being a mainstream Republican
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •5/ Omg, Team #Harris is ON IT!
Via team member James Singer:
Memories
Aaron Rupar:
Jul 15
North Carolina GOP guv candidate Mark Robinson, who recently said "some folks need killing" in reference to political enemies, casts NC's delegate votes for Trump at the RNC
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •6/ And the hits just keep on coming:
Via Ammar Moussa:
Donald Trump has a Mark Robinson problem.
Kamala HQ (with vid):
“We have to cherish Mark”
“Better than Martin Luther King”
“One of the great leaders in our country”
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •7/ Via @emptywheel:
In less than 2 hours Trump will do an event with Miriam Adelson in which he pretends to care abt antisemitism.
Any bets on whether he gets questions abt why he warmly endorsed a self-described black Nazi?
And...
So if the GOP condemns Black Nazi do they set up condemning the Nazis Vance has been cuddling with in OH?
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •8/ Via Elie Mystal:
You have to really not being attention to the GOP if you think Robinson calling himself a "black Nazi" who wants to bring back slavery is going to lose him votes with Republicans.
And I imagine that the trans porn stuff is pretty common among their "doth protest too much" base.
I mean, he didn't capitalize the 'b' in "black Nazi" so, he's anti-woke enough for the Republicans.
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •9/ Comms director for Sen. Heinrich Caty Payette:
Yeah so Tim Walz hit the nail on the head when he said these guys are just f*cking weird.
And via Kamala HQ just now:
Q: Senator Vance, do you have any reaction to the Mark Robinson news?
Vance: *rushes into other room*
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •10/ Another from Harris spox Sarafina Chitika:
Trump *personally* promised Mark Robinson his RNC speaking slot back in May at the NRA leadership forum.
At the RNC, Robinson gushed about Trump, calling him “the braveheart of our time.”
James Singer:
Mark Robinson was a featured speaker at Trump’s GOP Convention
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •11/ Holy crap, Kamala HQ is on 🔥:
Trump: We have to cherish Mark Robinson. You have to cherish him. He’s like a fine wine. He's an outstanding person. I've gotten to know him so well
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •13/ Well that was a fun thread to share.
Now we gotta win NC.
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •15 Totally adding this video to the thread:
mastodon.online/@spocko/113166…
Spocko
2024-09-19 21:38:17
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •16/ Above, Virginia Foxx played the "never heard of him" game, now this 🤦🏻♀️😂:
Via Annika Brockschmidt:
Watters has interviewed Robinson. He’s lying.
Jessica: We found out an hour ago that Mark Robinson who Donald Trump called MLK on steroids posted on a forum that he's a Black Nazi…
Watters: Never heard of him
#ClusterFox
Alexander Portnoy 🌊 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
in reply to Laffy • • •Ed Cates
in reply to Alexander Portnoy 🌊 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • • •@5klp471 All he's done so far is flatly deny that he had anything to do with the posts in question.
Which I believe translates to, "I have been caught utterly off guard by this and haven't been able to think up a plausible excuse, so all I can and will do for now is invoke the Shaggy Defense: It Wasn't Me."
Ed Cates
in reply to Ed Cates • • •@5klp471
Wait! "It was AI" seems to be the first attempted excuse.
rawstory.com/mark-robinson-gop…
'Someone manufactured this': Mark Robinson blames shocking 'black Nazi' comments on AI
Kathleen Culliton (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)Laffy
in reply to Ed Cates • • •Ed Cates
in reply to Laffy • • •Ed Cates
in reply to Ed Cates • • •@5klp471 RawStory posted a video of an MSNBC segment that played a snippet of Roberts' preemptive denial.
youtu.be/7KuILGMiE-E?t=68
I also appreciated Michael Steele's take, "Really? After everything else about this guy THIS was the line?"
Ex-Republican chair shocked Mark Robinson crossed a line: 'This was it?"
YouTubeSpocko
in reply to Laffy • • •The Kamala HQ put out this video complication of multiple times Donald #Trump praised #MarkRobinson.
He compared him to Martin Luther King on steroids
#NorthCarolina #Governor
TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris
in reply to Laffy • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris • • •@TCatInReality
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