Why Mark Robinson, why?

Alright, let’s see a show of hands.

How many of you originally believed former Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson when he swore up and down in 2024 that CNN’s pornography allegations against him were false and nothing but a wicked political attack? How many? Let's see your hands. Alright, Mrs. Robinson, you can put your hand down now. 

And before I continue, let me first state for the record, none of us are perfect. All of us have fallen short of the glory of GOD one way or another. But that’s to varying degrees. In “Brother” (as in Christian, NOT Black) Mark Robinson’s case, especially after he admitted on a 90-minute podcast last week that he indeed suffered from an “obsession with pornography;” that he did post online on the “Nude Africa” porn forum under an assumed name that “I’m a black Nazi”; that he supported the reinstatement of slavery and called slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a “commie bastard,” there's no question his is a special case that deserves expert attention.

Check that - some EXTRA expert professional attention!

“Certifiably sick” is the category you normally check off for such pronounced symptoms of diminished moral capacity. And to think this nutcase was vying to become our next governor. 

Regarding his admitted obsession with pornography, Robinson said, “I’m thinking that maybe I need to get a good therapist (no, chocolate Hugh Hefner, you need a GREAT therapist!). Of course, a Christian therapist, I think, would be best (yeah, that Satanist you’ve been checkin’ in with isn’t working out too well). But I’d like to find out why, throughout my entire life, I’ve been such a carnal person. I don’t understand it. I don’t understand why it’s been that way.”

Yes, this man truly needs deep, deep mental therapy for himself for knowing he had this serious problem and still running for statewide public office.

Honestly,  I hope he gets it.

However, Charlotte Observer op-ed writer Paige Masten observed, “Even in his honesty, Robinson remained defensive, and he seemed to believe that he did something righteous by lying. Even though he wanted to own up to it, he said, other people would be affected, so it would be “selfish” to be truthful."

In other words, Robinson’s admission of contrition comes with a “but.”

That “but” was that this deluded tough guy also admitted that he lied about his perverted obsession in order to protect …Donald Trump. And was willing to fight to the end to protect him.

“President Trump and I had become very good friends,” Robinson explained, apparently not realizing that you don't become "very good friend" with the crook-in-chief unless you're a billionaire, something Mark Robinson never has, and never will be in this lifetime. “And I realized how important it was for President Trump to win that race. And I knew that we were—not only was I in the fight for my life, that the country literally was in the fight for its life,” Robinson told Pastor Josh Hall on his “After the Call” podcast.

“And so I’d make the exact same decision (now), I’d fight the exact same way, because I always knew, I always knew there would be time for this (acknowledging the truth). But in those eight weeks (after the CNN allegations), there wasn’t time for that. What there was time to try to protect as many people as I could and do whatever I could to make sure that the fire that I was drawing didn’t get drawn to them as well.”

Any seasoned, scholarly, highly recognized university researcher out there who’s been looking long and hard for evidence of true MAGA madness, well there it is. Talk about a crackpot in serious denial.

A conservative Black man who admittedly and proudly castrated himself publicly just to help save the candidacy of a convicted, proven racist and criminal con man running for the presidency. You just can’t beat that kind of sick, off-the-charts madness!

Look at this for a moment…Mark Robinson risked his entire reputation and future, no matter how tattered it might be, NOT to spare his wife, nor his children, nor his church nor his community any more shame or pain, but to spare another  man who could care less whether he lived or died, and certainly has treated Robinson as such immediately after the allegations came out, and every minute of every day since.

I mean does Mark Robinson (who looks like a black Roger Ailes if you think about it) have a cushy job somewhere in the Trump Administration or Republican Party that rewards him for his extraordinary blind loyalty and self-sacrifice for his so-called "very good friend"? Of course not! C’mon, Trump has pardoned people who have actually committed crimes far worse than what Mark Robinson has done to himself, and they’ve gotten the royal treatment afterwards. And yet, Robinson’s unbridled loyalty to Trump ultimately admits him to the Damned Fool Hall of Fame.

Trump once lauded Mark Robinson as “Martin Luther King on steroids” in terms of his leadership capabilities and commanding presence. Surely someone like that could have been useful to the Trump Administration in some capacity, perhaps as a liaison with the so-called white right-wing Christian community Robinson was already very popular with.

But apparently Robinson was seen as too much damaged goods to touch. So now we have a grown man who once aspired to the highest elected office in this state, who is now tossed to the side by the political party he championed, and by its titular leader who wants absolutely nothing to do with him any more.

Please don’t get me wrong - honest contrition is good for the soul. Sincerely falling on your sword to spare supporters who believed in you, who've fought for you, who've stood up for you against all odds, is hard, but the right thing to do. It is what Almighty GOD would have us to do, because, as the Good Book says, “The truth shall set you free.”

But what Mark Robinson did last week in his admission of lying to protect Donald Trump, wasn’t brave, courageous, or at all laudable.

It was cowardly and damned stupid, because the man admittedly covered up for someone who is destroying this country, and almost did that years earlier with his selfish handling of the COVID pandemic crisis during his first term. Instead of saying that he was wrong because Trump is wrong, Mark Robinson would rather take the punishment for protecting a known and proven creep he still supports.

Why protect a man capable of openly and despicably celebrating the death of another human being as Trump did last weekend after it was reported that former FBI Director Robert Mueller, an honorable and decent man of unquestionable public service, had died? Grant you, Trump had hard feelings for Mueller after he led the investigation into the 2016 presidential election, and found evidence of Russian influence, but no Trump campaign criminal collusion.

And yet our president disparagingly said on his social media platform, “Good, I’m glad he’s dead!” The indecency of that sentiment is something we should all be embarrassed by.

Or the shocking rant Trump performed last week in front of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, telling our former enemy-now-close-ally in front of television cameras that they should remember Pearl Harbor when it comes to being sneaky.

Let us not forget starting a war Trump promised Mark Robinson and other MAGA mini minds like him he would never do. The resulting cascade of problems - from high gas prices to the very real prospect of a world war given the growing instability of Trump’s “excursion” into Iran should prove just how selfish the untrustworthy the mad MAGA leader is even to his base.

How do you even give this reprehensible sack of pus and bones so much as a thought when he’s shown long before now that he’s not worth protecting, because he has no capacity for human decency for other people? Why would Mark Robinson gut himself wide open for Donald Trump?

And it’s not just Robinson who is suffering behind his foolishness, but his family, who has certainly suffered because of their association with him.

All of this tells me that Mark Robinson should truly, and I mean this, truly go hide his ignorant face somewhere never to be seen or heard from again. I don’t know why he's decided now was the time to come out with this nonsense apology after the shameful trail of hatred he proudly championed while he was our divisive lieutenant governor. 

But I’m sorry, Mark Robinson. Honest contrition is one thing. Dishonest ignorance is something else. I’m on the side of those who never, and I meannever, want to see or hear from the likes of you ever again!

Unfortunately, there are many more mega-mad MAGA sycophants like you out there, and all I can say here and now is in November’26, expect the Trump foolishness to be fixed!

Now go back to feeling sorry for yourself, Mark Robinson! The rest of us have serious work to do.