I'm honestly not sure which part of North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson's freshly filed defamation lawsuit to focus on here.
The obvious reason for this is that Robinson – currently the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina – sued CNN for defamation yesterday. The lawsuit targets the network for publishing carefully documented allegations that Robinson made a series of bizarre and often bigoted comments on a porn forum called Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI” (caps in the original).
Robinson's lawsuit alleges that someone likely impersonated him using information from data breaches, which is certainly the case possible – but based on the evidence it would require a remarkably complex process…
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