North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN on Tuesday over its report he made remarks on pornographic forum Nude Africa where he called himself a 'perv' and 'black Nazi.'
The lawsuit, filed in Wake County Superior Court, comes less than four weeks after a report that led MAGA world to distance itself from Robinson after Trump backed the candidate in his bid against Josh Stein to take outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's seat.
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, bokep chindo and the email address supposedly associated with the NudeAfrica account — were previously compromised by multiple data breaches,' the lawsuit states, referencing the website.