By Diana Novak Jones
Oct 15 (Reuters) -
North Carolina's Republican candidate for governor Mark Robinson filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against CNN on Tuesday, saying the network´s report that he called himself a "black Nazi" more than a decade ago on a pornography website and made other inflammatory comments was "recklessly false."
The lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of Wake County, North Carolina, by Robinson, bokep chindo an African-American who is also the lieutenant governor in North Carolina, denied that he made the comments.
It called CNN´s September report a "malicious hit job" that was based on unverifiable data and was timed to derail his chances in the state´s Nov. 5 gubernatorial election, where he faces Democrat Josh Stein, the state's attorney general.
A CNN spokesperson declined to comment. Attorneys for Robinson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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