Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Sues CNN For $50 Million

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate, has filed a lawsuit against CNN, claiming defamation.

Today Mark Robinson announced a defamation lawsuit in response to CNN’s salacious, coordinated & disgraceful election interference smear campaign against him.

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— Matt Hurley (@mhurleyofficial) October 15, 2024

“Jesse Binnall is taking CNN and their buddies to task for the attacks against me and my family. This will go down as the greatest case of election interference in our state’s history. They are going to pay the price and we are going to win the election!” Robinson said Tuesday.

Jesse Binnall is taking CNN and their buddies to task for the attacks against me and my family.

This will go down as the greatest case of election interference in our state’s history.

They are going to pay the price and we are going to win the election!

— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) October 15, 2024

FOX 8 reports:

On Tuesday, Robinson and his attorney, Jesse Binnall, who represented former Pres. Donald Trump in multiple cases including his unsuccessful attempts to have the 2020 election thrown out, announced in a Tuesday morning news conference that they had filed a defamation lawsuit. They accuse The Assembly and CNN of publishing false articles in September that allege that Robinson frequented a pornographic video store and pornographic message boards at various points in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The complaint claims that the defendants — CNN and Louis Love Money, who spoke to The Assembly in September — intentionally shared defamatory statements about Robinson to interfere with the election.

Robinson is seeking damages of no less than $50 million.

BREAKING: North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson has sued CNN over its recent report alleging he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board. https://t.co/56aDKS4B42

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 15, 2024

“I received a text from @markrobinsonNC this morning— let’s just say I’ve never seen him more determined in a text. He’s going after @CNN — and rightfully so. No more should the Right put up with the slanderous rhetoric of the Left — it’s time be bold as lions,” Allen Mashburn, a contributor for The Blaze, commented.

I received a text from @markrobinsonNC this morning— let’s just say I’ve never seen him more determined in a text.

He’s going after @CNN— and rightfully so. No more should the Right put up with the slanderous rhetoric of the Left— it’s time be bold as lions. https://t.co/HnR7kgeuKa

— Allen Mashburn (@Mashburn4NC) October 15, 2024

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JUST IN – Mark Robinson Launches $50 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN — ‘The Strong Will Stand and Fight’Raleigh, NC |

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has announced a massive defamation lawsuit against CNN. This legal action follows a report from the network… pic.twitter.com/zl4mD26FBa

— Overton (@overton_news) October 15, 2024

From the Associated Press:

Robinson, who announced the lawsuit at a news conference in Raleigh with a Virginia-based attorney, has denied authoring the messages.

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 states, referencing the website.

Robinson, who would be the state’s first Black governor if elected, called the report a “high-tech lynching” on a candidate “who has been targeted from Day 1 by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed.”

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