NC GOP governor candidate Lt Gov Mark Robinson files $50 million defamation suit against CNN

North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson on Tuesday announced a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against CNN for a recent report tying him to a series of racist and sexually graphic comments on an online pornography forum. 

"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, now the state's lieutenant governor, said at a press conference Raleigh, according to the New & Observer newspaper. 

In a suit filed in Wake County Superior Court, Robinson is seeking $50 million in damages, alleging the cable news network intentionally defamed him with the report last month that he called “salacious tabloid lies.” 

The site to which CNN has tied Robinson is Nude Africa on which he allegedly called himself a “Black NAZI” and said he would buy enslaved people if slavery came back. 

The suit also names as a defendant Louis Love Money, a North Carolinian who made a music video hinting that Robinson had purchased pornography at his porn shop.