Rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) — whose 2024 campaign for governor imploded after a bombshell news report about his past racist, neo-Nazi, and sexual online comments — declared bankruptcy in a court filing on November 3, The Greensboro News & Record reported.
The November 3 court filing shows that Robinson and his wife have $797,800 in debts against roughly $535,600 in assets. including over $478,700 in secured claims over their home and vehicles, $120,000 in credit card debt, $100,000 owed to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services(for his wife’s a childhood nutrition nonprofit program), and $3,000 in tax debt to the IRS.
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Also among his debts, Robinson owes an undisclosed and unpaid settlement amount to Louis Money, a former adult video store owner whom Robinson sued for defamation after Money claimed in the aforementioned article that Robinson regularly visited his store 20 years ago. Money sued Robinson in May in state court, saying Robinson’s defamation suit against him had abused the legal system. Robinson reportedly settled with him but haddn’t pay the settlement.
Late last week, Robinson admitted that he had lied in September 2024 about a bombshell CNN article linking him to comments on the NudeAfrica adult website on which Robinson declared himself a “Black Nazi,” expressed support for slavery and Adolf Hitler, used racist language to mock civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., admitted to spying on women in showers, declared his love of transgender adult videos, and shared details of possibly-fantasy threesomes with his sister-in-law.
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Robinsonimmediately denied the report,claiming that artificial intelligence had generated the online comments attributed to him by somehow hacking into his private accounts and creating comments that were then timestamped as being posted over a decade ago.
He refused to drop out of his race to become his state’s next governor. One month after the 2024 article’s publication, Robinson filed a libel suit accusing CNN of being “reckless and defamatory” and claiming that Robinson’s online data from NudeAfrica “were previously compromised by multiple data breaches.” The suit sought $50 million in damages. In January 2025, Robinson asked his lawyer to drop the suit.
Thoughthe state Republican Party stood behind him, his campaign staff largely abandoned him soon after the article was published. Robinson ended up losing his race.
Robinson gained infamy during his time as North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. by stating that he considers LGBTQ+ people to be “filthy” “demons” who “mentally rape” children. Among hismany anti-LGBTQ+ statements, he called homosexuality “an abominable sin,”compared LGBTQ+ people to cow dung, and Satanic demons, and said trans peopleshould defecate on public street corners outsiderather than using bathrooms matching their gender identity.
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