North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson on Tuesday sued CNN for $50 million over an article the network published last month alleging he made comments on a pornography web forum years ago.
Robinson, a Republican who is running for governor, filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN and a North Carolina musician, Louis Love Money, who alleged he went to pornography stores. Robinson has denied both authoring the messages and Money’s claims.
“CNN and Louis Love Money are responsible for a new low in digital lynching,” the lawsuit states. “In a malicious hit job so well timed as to be uncanny, they have published disgusting lies about Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson in what appears to be a coordinated attack aimed at derailing his campaign for governor, and has already inflicted immeasurable harm to his family, his reputation, and his good name….