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Posted on 10/15/2024 1:24:28 PM PDT by silent_jonny
RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced a multi-million dollar lawsuit against both a major news network and a local musician over multiple published reports that Robinson claims are defamatory.
On Tuesday, Robinson and his attorney, Jesse Binnall, who represented former Pres. Donald Trump in multiple cases including his unsuccessful attempts to have the 2020 election thrown out, announced in a Tuesday morning news conference that they had filed a defamation lawsuit. They accuse The Assembly and CNN of publishing false articles in September that allege that Robinson frequented a pornographic video store and pornographic message boards at various points in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The complaint claims that the defendants — CNN and Louis Love Money, who spoke to The Assembly in September — intentionally shared defamatory statements about Robinson to interfere with the election.
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Louis Love Money
On Aug. 11, 2024, local band Trailer Park Orchestra put out a music video for the song “The Lt. Governor Owes Me Money,” where the frontman, defendant Money, sings about making a bootleg porn tape for Robinson and says that Robinson still owes him $25.
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CNN used the hit piece NOT because they had vetted it, but because it served the political assignment the Dims gave them - “get Robinson and we can win North Carolina”.
wonderful.
Funny how none of these decades-old accusations were brought up 4 years ago, when Robinson was running for Lt. Governor.
The left.. Should be sued every day.. It might stop the hit pieces..
Didn’t Rino Tills dare him to litigate?
I hope Robinson gets a better outcome in his lawsuit than he’s going to get in this election. Rasmussen’s latest poll notwithstanding, Trump has been at best likely to eke out a 1-3 point win in NC now — but that was pre-hurricane. Trump *should* improve his standing there now (and maybe the ever right-leaning Ras poll reflects that), but nothing is going to help Robinson at this point.
The presidential race in NC got much tighter (and has stayed that way) the moment Biden was removed from the ticket, so Robinson can’t be totally blamed for that.
However, there appears to be an adverse “Robinson Effect” on the downballot statewide office elections, of which there are NINE in North Carolina this year. Probably 5% of North Carolinians could even tell you who the candidates are in those races and, as so often happens in races with little-known candidates, will vote straight party line.
Republicans won 6 of those 9 row offices four years ago, and not one of those 6 even got to 55%. NC is a VERY closely divided state no matter what the delusionals might say, and there is some evidence that the Robinson Effect is hindering other statewide office-seekers, though the GOP may still win several (Democrats seem very likely to pick up the Superintendent of Public Instruction office from the GOP).
Funny, but not haha funny.
Just heard today that in August, Trump was down 5 in NC. A recent poll taken during and/or since all the troubles has him up 7. Heard it on Wilkow’s show on SiriusXM Patriot. I missed which poll it was.
Not sure what poll that could be. No poll has ever had Trump down as much as 5 points in NC as far as I know, and most of them in recent months have been in the +1 to +3 range.
OTOH no poll has Trump at +7 either — yet — and maybe the Biden-Harris-FEMA f**ked up response to the disaster will cost them dearly. As it should.
Election 2024: Trump Now +5 in North Carolina (Rasmussen) (Trafalgar has Trump up 2)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | October 15, 2024 | Rasmussen Reports
Posted on 10/15/2024, 4:36:26 PM by willk
Former President Donald Trump has widened his lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground state of North Carolina.
A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and American Thinker finds that, if the election were held today, 51% of Likely North Carolina voters would vote for Trump, while 46% would vote for Harris. In September, Trump had a three-point lead – 49% to Harris’s 46% – in North Carolina.
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Tillis responded to the [CNN] report by suggesting that Robinson should either “take immediate legal action” if it is false, or, if the report is true, “he owes it to President Trump and every Republican to take accountability for his actions and put the future of NC & our party before himself.”https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4933203-mark-robinson-thom-tillis-north-carolina-tension/
I'm no fan of Tillis. He's at best a fair-weather Trump supporter. But I don't disagree with what he said there.
It's a moot point now anyway. Robinson was a longshot to begin with.
I would like it very much if this lawsuit makes it through the legal gauntlet and actually costs CNN 50 million dollars.
Their old anonymous sources trick is going to bite them in the billfold.
One of my top 10 or 20 favorite movies right there. “French fried potaters”, “It ain’t got no gas in it”, “Don’t you say another word about that boy”.
I love that movie. I should watch it again.
It’s amazing that so many conservatives still fall for these last minute allegations which amazingly are revealed when a conservative is making headway in a state the Democrats desperately need to win.
Someone anonymously makes the allegations with no true evidence, the reliable and loyal Democrat media publishes the salacious headlines and republican voters just as reliably abandon the candidate.
Long after the election has been lost by the conservative candidate, it’s found the allegations were false. The Democrats say “it worked, didn’t it?” and the media says “how could we know it was false?”. The GOP voters cry, “They lied to me but it was in the media so I assumed where there was smoke there was fire so voted for someone else”.
Rinse, then repeat in 2 or 4 years.
maybe at least cut the margin by fighting back on innocent til proven guilty
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