Republican governor nominee Mark Robinson entertained conspiracy theories that the U.S. government was behind the attack on Pearl Harbor and death of General Patton
The Republican candidate for governor North Carolina Mark Robinson once insinuated that the US government was involved in both the attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of US General George Patton as part of a conspiracy to aid Joseph Stalin.
Robinson, who currently serves as the state’s lieutenant governor, is now entering what is considered one of the most competitive gubernatorial races in the country, in a state that is also a battleground in November’s presidential election.
In a 2018 radio interview, the presenter argued: ‘Japan is the one who bombed us, but most of our material and efforts went to Europe.’
‘Right. It really calls into question the motives and the suspicions surrounding our whole entry into the war, it really does,” Robsinson responded. ‘It raises serious questions.’
It is one in a long line of conspiracy theories that Robinson indulged in before entering politics. He has also been accused of a number of anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexist comments over the years.
Mark Robinson speaks at the NC GOP Convention in Greensboro, NC on May 25, 2024. He is in a close race for governor against NC Attorney General Josh Stein
DailyMail.com listened to the newly unearthed material sound from an episode of Politics and Prophecy with Chris Levels.
There has been extensive reporting about Robinson harboring conspiracy theories, but this is believed to be the first audio of him discussing conspiracies about Pearl Harbor and Patton.
Robinson is heard saying, “You know, I’m not prepared to say that our government deliberately set up Pearl Harbor. I know there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there that say…
At that point the host interrupted with “I will!” There is too much evidence behind the theory that the US was behind the attack.
“Sure,” Robinson replies. “There are certainly questions out there, serious questions that have been raised.”
When Japan attacked Hawaii on December 7, 1941, 2,403 Americans were killed.
Robinson further argued that President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to enter the war was part of a communist conspiracy to help Stalin.
“If you look at the whole of it, and you look at the way that FDR completely ignored the struggle in Japan and focused all his energy, all his energy was focused on a way for us to get to Europe, and not just to get to Europe , but to go there to help the man he called Uncle Joe,” Robinson said.
“So wait a minute, we went to Europe, and we quote liberated Europe from the Nazis, but then we turned around and handed over even more property to the communists. That makes no sense, he continued.
In a 2018 radio interview, Mark Robinson said “serious questions” have been raised and responded “absolutely” when the show’s host claimed the US government was behind the attack on Pearl Harbor.
When Japan attacked Hawaii on December 7, 1941, 2,403 Americans were killed.
Robinson called the circumstances surrounding the death of General George Patton in 1945 “just too strange for me.” He said, “I certainly don’t believe it” that one of America’s greatest commanders died as a result of a car accident
Later in the same interview, the host claimed that the US government had assassinated General Patton.
“I’m not ready to say for sure, but it seems like it, because Patton was a rabid dog when it came to that communism thing,” Robinson replied.
Patton was paralyzed in a car accident in December 1945. He died less than two weeks later.
“How this man ended up dying in a car accident, I will never know,” Robinson said.
‘I certainly don’t believe it. I just think it’s too weird,” Robinson said of his death as a result of the accident.
Robinson also called FDR a “quasi-socialist or a complete socialist surrounded by communists” who went to Europe with the “intent of saving Joseph Stalin, saving communism and Marxism.”
“Just like when the Democrats tried to smear him for calling for more education about the evils of totalitarian dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao, these are just more twisted word games concocted by the Democrats and their allies in the press to falsely to fall. Mark Robinson,” campaign director Mike Lonergan responded.
Lonergan pointed to Robinson’s comments in the interview, in which he said he was “unwilling” to support them while entertaining the theories.
The comment about dictators relates to an unrelated clip posted online last summer in which Robinson’s comments about dictators were edited to be misleading.
“North Carolina voters know better and they will see right through it when they elect Mark Robinson as governor in November,” Lonergan said.
Lt. Governor Robinson speaks at a Trump rally on March 2, 2024. The ex-president endorsed Robinson in the governor’s race, calling him MLK ‘on steroids’ during the rally
Robinson’s previous references to conspiracy theories are well documented.
He previously claimed in a post that he was “skeptical” about “everything” he has seen on TV, including 9/11, and the assassination of JFK and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Robinson also wrote that he does not believe the moon landing was fake or that September 11 was an “inside job,” but wrote that if he found out it was true, he ‘wouldn’t be surprised.’
The right-wing conservative firebrand has also been a polarizing figure who has come under fire for his past comments about women, Jews, Muslims and members of the LGBTQ community.
Before running for lieutenant governor in 2020, Robinson once wrote that the Black Panther movie was ‘made by an agnostic Jew and put on film by satanic Marxists.’
Other messages are included Denial of the Holocaust. In one he wrote ‘this folly about disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them into concentration camps is a load of nonsense.’
After the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Florida, which killed 49 people in 2016, he wrote that homosexuality is “STILL a heinous sin” and that he would “NOT join in the celebration of gay pride.”
He also suggested that Ellen DeGeneres, who is openly gay, was a “top-level demon.”
In messages following the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Robinson called the survivors “spoiled, angry, know-it-all KIDS” and “media prosti tots.’
Robinson is a conservative firebrand who has come under fire for past anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ, sexist and other controversial comments and posts on the internet
Robinson won the Republican nomination for governor of North Carolina on Super Tuesday in March.
He is supported by Donald Trump, who Robinson described as ‘Martin Luther King on steroids’ when he endorsed him at a rally in Greensboro before the primary.
Robinson called the civil rights leader a “communist” in a 2018 podcast. He has also dismissed the Civil Rights Movement as a communist plot to “undermine capitalism.”
