MAGA candidate suggested Ray Rice's battered girlfriend brought 'whooping' on herself
Even more controversial comments have been unearthed from far-right North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson by The Washington Post — this time defending various convicted and accused sexual and domestic abusers.
"A review of Robinson’s social media posts over the past decade shows that he frequently questioned the credibility of women who aired allegations of sexual assault against prominent men, including Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, actor Bill Cosby and now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh," reported Patrick Sviteck and Maegan Vazquez. "In one post, Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, characterized Weinstein and others as 'sacrificial lambs' being 'slaughtered.'"
"Robinson also wrote repeatedly of a 2014 domestic violence encounter involving then-NFL star Ray Rice, who was seen on a surveillance video dragging his apparently unconscious fiancée out of an elevator.
In a post directed at Rice’s 'lady friend,' Robinson suggested the woman was at fault for the physical altercation," noted the report. Specifically, Robinson argued on Facebook, “Note to Ray Rice's lady friend; I'm a 350lb man but aint no way in HELL I'm gonna' slap no pro football player. I'm to old for an a$whoopin'.”
ALSO READ: ‘They could have killed me’: Trump's so-called 'Seattle whistleblower' finally revealed
Robinson, a gun-rights activist who pulled off a surprise win in the 2020 North Carolina lieutenant governor election at the same time Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper was re-elected, has been outed for a deluge of various offensive statements over the years, including claiming that LGBTQ people are Satanic and school shooting survivors are "prosti-tots," downplaying the Holocaust, and saying America was better back when women weren't allowed to vote.
He has also pushed some conspiracy theories that are far outside the mainstream, including the idea that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a false flag operation staged by the U.S. government.
Robinson's Democratic opponent is Josh Stein, who currently serves as North Carolina's attorney general.