Fox News host Jesse Watters claims he’s ‘never heard of’ Mark Robinson — despite interviewing him this year

Fox Information host Jesse Watters claimed he’s by no means heard of Mark Robinson, regardless of interviewing him earlier this 12 months.

Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, is preventing for his political profession after a bombshell report by CNN’s KFile mentioned he referred to himself as a “black Nazi” and mentioned “slavery is sweet,” amongst different stunning remarks, on a porn discussion board.

Watters stayed largely silent on The 5 when the topic was introduced up by co-host Jessica Tarlov, who described North Carolina as “a giant goal for the Democrats.”

She mentioned: “And we simply came upon an hour in the past that the lieutenant governor there, Mark Robinson, who’s operating for governor…”

“By no means heard of him,” Watters interrupted.

However the controversial host had really interviewed Robinson in January on his present Jesse Watters Primetime. On the time, Robinson was interviewed by Watters relating to rumors Michelle Obama was operating for workplace and whether or not Republicans “ought to be involved” about her.

Ignoring Watters, Tarlov, who reeled off a few of the stunning allegations made in opposition to Robinson, concluded: “This makes North Carolina much more in play for Democrats. And this, once more, is proof of the type of candidates that Donald Trump thinks are good for the nation.”

Earlier on Thursday, impartial journalist Bryan Anderson had mentioned that Robinson’s marketing campaign was getting ready for a detrimental story to interrupt. Just a few hours later, CNN’s KFile reported that he had an account on a porn website known as “Nude Africa” the place the anti-transgender conservative admitted that “I like watching tranny on lady porn!”

The social conservative, who has taken a stance in opposition to promiscuity previously, wrote: “yeah, I’m a perv too,” and reportedly mentioned on the identical website when instructed {that a} movie star had had an abortion: “I don’t care. I simply wanna see the intercourse tape!”

Robinson denies the allegations and instructed CNN that the account they’d discovered on the porn website was not his.

The web feedback have been made between 2008 and 2012, lengthy earlier than Robinson stepped into politics, on Nude Africa, which has a message board. They have been written below the username “minisoldr” which CNN matched to a number of biographical particulars in addition to an electronic mail handle.

The lieutenant governor denied making the feedback when talking to the community on Thursday.

“This isn’t us. These will not be our phrases. And this isn’t something that’s attribute of me,” he mentioned. “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how someone manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”