A CNN investigation published last month found that an account tied to Robinson had made a series of explicit racist and sexist comments on a pornography website. Robinson has denied that he made the comments, calling it “salacious tabloid trash.”
And in a separate report from the North Carolina online magazine The Assembly, a former employee at a Greensboro porn store, Louis Money, said Robinson frequented the establishment in the ’90s and early 2000s. His local band also produced a music video about Robinson allegedly owing him money from that time.
During a press conference held in front of the lieutenant governor’s residence, Robinson and his lawyer, Jesse Binnall, said the stories were tantamount to “election interference,” and represented a “high-tech lynching”—borrowing a term used by then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearing when faced with allegations of sexual harassment.
“This is a high-tech lynching on a candidate who has been targeted from Day One, by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed,” Robinson said.
The lawsuit alleges that CNN corroborated its reporting with data “apparently sourced from hacked, data breach files, obtained from the dark web.”
WRAL has reported that Robinson declined multiple offers for tech support to investigate the origin of the online posts.
CNN’s press office did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.
The lawsuit calls Money’s music video “a deliberate lie,” and said he had “concocted” a “fantasy … to embarrass and tear (Robinson) down, and to seek his own fifteen minutes of fame.”
Reached by phone Tuesday, Money laughed off the lawsuit. He didn’t plan to hire a lawyer, he said but “I’m looking for a publicist.”
“Number one, I hope it gets Trailer Park Orchestra about 10,000 more extra views,” Money told NC Newsline. “Because all of this ain’t a news story unless my band puts out a music video about it.”
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