NC Lt. Gov. lawsuit against CNN over "political interference," defamation (10-15-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_04]: I've got a blank sheet of paper in front of me, I've got the complaint pulled up in front of me, also on the laptop, and I've got the press conference that I was planning to play some audio from, but we'll see what happens.

[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_04]: 704-570-1110, email is pete at thepetekalendershow.com. Very little show prep required by me today. That's not true. See, that's the thing is you do the show prep and you never know if you're going to need it.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_04]: And what I have learned in this time slot is a lot of times you don't get to do the topics that you had planned to do.

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah, just back burner that show prep and maybe I'll get to it tomorrow.

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_04]: All right, so the phone lines open as always. 704-570-1110, email is pete at thepetekalendershow.com.

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Going over the complaint, the lawsuit, the defamation lawsuit that was filed by Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson in Wake County Court.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Superior Court against Lewis Love Money, the porn shop owner or worker, rather, who gave the interview to the Assembly, which apparently is linked to George Soros.

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_04]: It's an online publication.

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_04]: And because this happened, I do have like a whole stack of the Mark Robinson story, but it's back home.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_04]: So I don't have it with me. So I can't refer back to the stuff easily.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_04]: But they're also suing Robinson is also suing CNN over the story that it did about two weeks later.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Alleging that he had made all of these crazy, lewd, lascivious, salacious, disgusting comments on porn sites under his own name, supposedly.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_04]: But in the complaint, the lawyer for Robinson argues that this information was based off of dark web, hacked, leaked information.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_04]: And so they are, you know, if you're trying to verify it, you would need to see the source of it.

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's been hidden from them by not only the website that this these comments allegedly appeared on, but also CNN.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_04]: They're not cooperating to show their homework, basically.

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Show us your work. How did you get to this? How did you find this stuff? How did you confirm it?

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_04]: And I've read the story. People are like, well, you should read the CNN story.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_04]: I did. I read it all. And I identified some problems.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_04]: But that was that's just me.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_04]: They need to go after it with like a digital forensic analysis.

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_04]: They need to go in and get the people that know what they're looking for and know how to deconstruct this stuff and know how to follow the breadcrumbs in the digital world.

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_04]: They need to they need to turn that stuff over so it can be corroborated.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_04]: In fact, I said this at the time, if I recall correctly, which is why didn't CNN do that?

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Right. Why didn't they do that initially in their first story to make sure that it was unassailable?

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_04]: All right. Let me go over to the phones here and talk with Mitch.

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello, Mitch. Welcome to the show.

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Pete, man, I am so confused.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So we have a black man who's being accused of having some sort of a, for lack of a better term, different sexual behavior.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And then on the other hand, we have a straight lily white guy and the two are running for office.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And the left wants me to vote for the lily white straight guy and the black guy with a different sexual behavior, which certainly falls somewhere under the LGBTQ plus plus plus plus banner is not the victim.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm confused.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Allowed by some, you know, drag queens to kindergartners like that's seems like that would be the obvious next step.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm really confused, man. Up is down and down is up.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. Yeah. Well, and so here's the thing, Mitch, I appreciate the call.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I said this at the time also, which is that none of this stuff is disqualifying for the left.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_04]: They don't care.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_04]: They celebrate that kind of fetishes and these kinds of sexual deviancy.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_04]: So this isn't disqualifying for them.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_04]: They don't care.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_04]: They think you do.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_04]: They want you to care.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_04]: And they want to be able to mock Mark Robinson as a sexual deviant, even though if you mock sexual deviancy, then you're a hater or something phobe or something is or whatever.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_04]: See, that's the.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, that's why I say, like, don't your booze mean nothing to me because I've seen what you cheer for.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_04]: OK, I don't know about this one.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, Pete.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello, Pete.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome to the show.

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Pete.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, great name.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_04]: What's up?

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, not to criticize too much here, and it wasn't you necessarily, but a lot of guys on our side, people on our side really didn't get Mark the benefit of the doubt, you know.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_03]: And I don't begin to learn with these these people on the other side.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_03]: They just lie indiscriminately.

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_03]: They don't especially especially when it's a black conservative on our side.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm just wondering how many times we've got to go down this road before you just say no more.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_03]: What in the heck is naked Africa?

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Nude Africa.

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Never heard of it.

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Nude Africa.

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, whatever.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_03]: A new pornhub or something, you know.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's what I mean.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, there are parts of this story that don't make sense.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, part of that could be that he is, you know, he really did set up a profile using his own name and actual biographical information, which is to me, that would be weird.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Why would a guy do that, especially if he's married and trying to hide all of this from his wife?

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_04]: So that that seemed odd.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_04]: But this would be I'm not aware of another kind of.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_04]: So because I did this the day this story broke.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Which is let's assume it's real and then let's assume it's false.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And ask questions going down each path.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_04]: And if you assume that this is false, I'm not aware of any other comparable smear hit job that would even come close to what would be necessary to construct this kind of a of a digital footprint.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I'm not aware of any of anything else that comes close.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Sure.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_03]: And that's exactly right.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_03]: And it's just like Clarence Thomas with a pubic hair on the token.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_03]: I never heard of that.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_03]: What the hell was that about?

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, I just think at the time.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_04]: At the time.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Nobody.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_04]: At the time.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Nobody had heard of any such thing like that.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that was a reference to.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Wasn't it also something out of like a porn movie or something?

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_04]: So.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_04]: So, again, like if it's if the story is false and it is a hit job, then you're dealing with people that have actually consumed this kind of media in the case of Clarence Thomas.

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Or it's somebody who has written the stuff that is now attributed to Robinson.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_04]: So that comes from somebody's mind.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Somebody wrote that stuff.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's like this stuff is sick.

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_04]: And so that to me, though, is like in order to create this this story out of whole cloth, like I don't know of another example.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's why I think people are are ready to believe it, because it seems like so over the top that people would come up with all of these ways to fabricate this stuff.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_04]: But in today's day and age, it's not surprising that people could do this.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Sure.

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, again, Pete, I don't know.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I'm just, you know, more cynical than you.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_03]: OK, I don't trust the word that comes out Democrats mouth at this point.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Not not a word.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Not one.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_03]: And then you've got the establishment Republicans on our side that they got nothing.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_03]: They hold nothing for Mark Robinson.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, we all know that.

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_04]: So, you know, it's well, part of it is also part of it also was in the immediate aftermath.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Robinson's response and from his campaign, which recall a bunch of people quit his campaign over this, too.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_04]: So.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_04]: So that like there's there.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_04]: There are doubts about whether or not he is telling the truth and people are not willing to take that risk on him.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_04]: And part of that is because I think that people did not know him.

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_04]: This is one of the downsides about being, quote, an outsider is that you haven't spent years and years working with people that they get to know you and trust you.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_04]: As an outsider, you come in and they read your posts and all this other stuff, you know, from years back on Facebook that you didn't delete to his credit, I would say.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_04]: But people don't they don't have any kind of of a background or a history with you.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_04]: And that that becomes a liability.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me take you back to 2016 for a second.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_03]: If you recall the campaign leading up to that election, grab him by the you know what.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_03]: OK.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_03]: That's when they brought a Steve Bannon.

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I know Bannon's not one of your favorites, but he is one of mine.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Stacey, you fight this thing.

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_03]: You get on the offense and you fight this thing down to the last straw.

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_03]: And they did.

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_03]: But I guarantee at least even myself at the time, I was like, this is over, Trump.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_03]: It's over.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think a lot of people thought so.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_03]: So what I'm saying with Mark is, Mark, you've got to fight this.

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_03]: You've got to fight it tooth and nail.

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_03]: And I hope people like Pete Callender, Pete, give your first instinct to give him the benefit.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't care if a bunch of establishment lackeys bailed out on him on his campaign.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what those guys do.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what they did in 2000.

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_03]: They weren't.

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_04]: But hang on, Pete.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_04]: These people that were the people that bailed on him were people that were with him from

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_04]: the very beginning.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_04]: These weren't.

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't care.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_04]: But they weren't establishment lackeys.

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Some of these people had been.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_03]: They didn't work in other campaigns?

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_04]: They didn't work in other campaigns?

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_04]: A couple of them were with him from his very first run, and they've been with him the whole

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_04]: time.

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_04]: So that to me raises a doubt.

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Like I said, I don't know what the truth is.

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_03]: I got a feeling I pretty well know what the truth is now.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it started off with this naked africut.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_03]: That was the first thing that got me.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Why does it have to be such an obscure thing?

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_03]: If it's Pornhub, you know, if I could say that or something like that, that, you know,

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_03]: is mainstream, let's say, it's going to be a lot easier to suss out.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Now, you've got this weird thing.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I guess the site exists, but, you know, it does.

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_03]: It does.

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_03]: And I believe that.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_04]: And it got hacked.

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_04]: It got hacked.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's a problem for, like, in my mind, that's a problem in the fact that your website

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_04]: got hacked.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Your information was compromised.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_04]: If you did have an account on that site, even if you didn't, if it got hacked, that

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_04]: means did people get access to some of the, you know, the behind-the-scenes code where

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_04]: now you could go in and change stuff, take screenshots, and push it off as if it's true?

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_03]: I got a lot of questions on the IT side.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for saying that.

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Because you've got AI coming on now.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_03]: It's going to get really squirrely in the future.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_03]: I agree, Pete.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_03]: So the Democrats, Pete, they just don't have a moral compass.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_03]: They just don't.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, and I think you know this.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_03]: You may not want to say it.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_03]: No, no.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I try not to paint with a broad brush because there are Democrats who don't vote

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Democrats.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_04]: So I don't throw them all.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, I would say leftists.

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Leftists do not have a moral compass.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Leftists want power.

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_04]: That's their compass.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_04]: It points to true power all the time.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_04]: That's the only direction they move.

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I appreciate the call, Pete.

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[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Michael sends me a message asking,

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_04]: When has the word of a porn shop worker who's in a low-budget punk band,

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_04]: who's named Louis Love Money,

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_04]: been considered credible?

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_04]: So, if you are doing journalism and somebody comes to you with this story,

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_04]: and I don't know because the Assembly never told us how they discovered this story,

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_04]: how they discovered this guy.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Did they stumble upon his YouTube video?

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Did he reach out to them?

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_04]: They never told us.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN never told us how they got onto the trail on any of this stuff.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_04]: So, we're left to fill in the blanks, which that is an indication that it is not a solid story.

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_04]: If I have to fill in blanks about how the story came to the news department,

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_04]: when it is a piece of critical information because it speaks to motive of the person that came to you,

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_04]: that's a problem.

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_04]: But the guy did go on the record,

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_04]: and we are to assess his credibility based on what we know of the guy,

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_04]: which he's got, you know, a rap sheet.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_04]: He's had trouble with the law.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, he's the porn shop worker guy.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_04]: He obviously has a financial stake and an interest in promoting this story

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_04]: because it's getting him downloads and views on YouTube and such.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a promotional effort for his band.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_04]: So, he's got self-interest.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_04]: The people that were used to, quote, corroborate his story were his friends and bandmates.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_04]: And that is not generally a good thing to rely on when you're trying to do good journalism.

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_04]: You should try to find some other independent corroboration.

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I know it would have been difficult, but maybe you could have tracked down some people at the Papa John's.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Right?

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Some of the people that Mark Robinson worked with at the time.

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe some of them could have corroborated.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_04]: That would have been more independent than other people that are friends with this guy.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_04]: As for the CNN stuff, you know, back when the story first broke, I detailed all of the questions I had about the story at the time.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_04]: So, I won't go back.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_04]: You can pull that old podcast at the PeteCallenderShow.com.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_04]: And you can listen to the questions I was raising back then.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_04]: But part of doing the journalism also requires you to assess the claims, especially extraordinary claims.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_04]: And they require extraordinary evidence.

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_04]: And the more earth-shattering and salacious the claims are, it requires you to make sure you've got it right.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_04]: And if you're going to blow up a person's life, their personal life, destroy their family, right?

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Because that's what you're doing.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_04]: If your story is not true, you have ruined a man's career and his personal relationships with his family members.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_04]: If the story is not true, that's why you better make damn sure it's true as a journalist.

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I should say as an ethical journalist.

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[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Back to the complaint here from Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Prior to this is a lawsuit against CNN.

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_04]: This part deals with CNN.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Prior to publication of the CNN article, CNN reached out to Robinson.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_04]: He specifically and unequivocally denied CNN's allegations that he used or created the mini soldier nude Africa profile.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_04]: So nude Africa was the website.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Mini soldier minus the IE at the end of the words is M.I.N.I.S.O.L.D.R.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_04]: He says he did not use or create that profile, nor did he make any of the statements that CNN asked him about, alleged that this account had made.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_04]: He told CNN that it was entirely manufactured.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN did not give Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson any opportunity to inspect or investigate any of the source material for these alleged statements.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Despite his explicit denials, CNN chose to publish the article based on data from a dubious website, supposed corroboration from unverified, indeed unverifiable data.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Apparently sourced from hacked data breach files obtained from the dark web.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_04]: It chose to publish despite knowing or recklessly disregarding that Lieutenant Governor Robinson's data, including his name, date of birth, passwords and the email address supposedly associated with that nude Africa account were previously compromised by multiple data breaches.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Any person could have purchased and or used Lieutenant Governor Robinson's data to create accounts all over the Internet.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_04]: As CNN is aware, people who create accounts on websites like nude Africa and adult friend finder prefer not to use their own names and identities for obvious reasons.

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Right. This was also a very big problem with the story.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, maybe Mark Robinson did use his real name and specific information to create the profile.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that would be pretty stupid, but it is possible.

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_04]: It is also possible that if he had all of that information.

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Stolen.

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Hacked.

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_04]: In a data breach of some kind.

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Which he told CNN.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Like some of that stuff has been.

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I got, you know, hacked a while ago.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_04]: They got named data birth passwords, email addresses, all of this stuff years ago.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, now that that would be an explanation, which, by the way, was not included in that CNN article, which he told CNN, apparently, according to this lawsuit.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_04]: That they published the story anyway, disregarding what he told them that his information had been hacked.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_04]: The article includes references to, what's his name, Lewis Love Money's allegations that was reported at the assembly and then gives a link back to that assembly article.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_04]: The re-reporting by CNN thus expanded the reach of Money's defamatory statements even further.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Lieutenant, Governor Robinson, by counsel, sent a retraction demand to CNN two days later.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_04]: They further demanded that CNN produce the source material for its bogus allegations so that it could be subjected to forensic scrutiny and verification.

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN responded that day, refusing to retract the article and has still, to this date, declined to produce any of the source material for inspection.

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Which, if you have confidence in your story, then why wouldn't you produce the information?

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Are you protecting sources of some kind?

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, you never identified sources.

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_04]: You never said it came from some sources.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_04]: You just said, here's the information.

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Look what we got.

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Look at these screenshots.

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_04]: You never said that you're protecting some sources that gave you access to the information.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Almost immediately after the CNN article broke, the management of Nude Africa shut down the forum section of its website where these alleged posts were supposedly archived.

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_04]: It then apparently deleted all messages from the account Mini Soldier, thereby removing any evidence that could be investigated.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_04]: As of this filing, the owner of Nude Africa has ignored all attempts to contact him.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN had every reason to doubt the veracity of the data upon which it relied.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN knew that supposed archives from a suspicious website like Nude Africa were unreliable and failed to meaningfully investigate or digitally scrutinize them.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_04]: And if I recall correctly, Nude Africa had been hacked.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_04]: I think its parent company had been hacked and a bunch of the websites that it runs were all caught up in that hack.

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN knew that the information used was from unverifiable dark web sourced data breach files.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN knew or recklessly disregarded the fact that Lieutenant Governor Robinson's emails, passwords and personal data had been stolen.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN knew Robinson's Facebook history, which is unlocked and transparent to all.

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_04]: And it goes back to 2007.

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN knew that just weeks prior to the article, Robinson had been targeted by another ludicrous and dubiously sourced hit piece by the Assembly.

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_04]: CNN knew that the election was less than two months away.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_04]: So this is what they're making the argument that this is election interference, but also that they were negligent and that they acted with malice in publishing the story that they knew was unverifiable and defamatory.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_04]: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's and before he died, my mom and my dad and all of us really helped take care of him as he got progressively worse.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_04]: 40 years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

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[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I've been a supporter for like 25 years.

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_04]: This cause means a lot to me.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_04]: I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte team this year.

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[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_04]: We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's.

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_04]: And if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it.

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Will you come walk with me for a different future, for families, for more time, for treatments?

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_04]: This is why I walk.

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's see what the phone lines have.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello, Mary Kay.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Pete.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for taking my call.

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to thank you for really getting a fine tooth comb on the way CNN has taken such a low life approach.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_00]: They're sleazy.

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They're creating this false story, false narrative.

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Not one part of this campaign on their side, on the Democrat side, has been honest.

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Every single thing is a lie from them, including their commercials.

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And for them to be saying this about Mark Robinson, what to me is the great irony here is that they're going after this man's character as if he's involved in this porn and debauchery.

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_00]: In reality, the Democratic Party is promoting porn and debauchery.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Biden's broadcast from the South Lawn of the White House back, I guess it was like on Gay Pride Day a year or two ago.

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_00]: There were people topless, not wearing pants, gyrating.

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_00]: On the South Lawn of the White House, they had it on TV, but they had to have my son and I, he was only about 10.

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: We were watching it.

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And it had to be pixelated so you couldn't see the naked body parts gyrating.

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was a lot of LGBTQ people, like same sex with each other.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It was like a big sex party on the South Lawn of the White House.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And for them to be promoting this stuff and the thing that was so crazy, even my son was laughing and he said, listen to Joe Biden, mom.

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_00]: He said, most dignified thing I've ever seen.

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Most dignified thing I've ever seen.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And there was nothing dignified about it.

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It was debauchery.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It was flagrant.

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And at the Apex Library, when I used to live in Apex, just last spring, I went in in the springtime near the end of school year.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And the books that were prominently placed, not in the stacks, but on the shelves where you can see the whole cover, five of them in the young adult section were for summer adventure gay sex.

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And they were young adult novels with several illustrations in them showing sex acts of young teen boys.

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And these are the chosen books that were highlighted.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, if you go into the library, it's Thanksgiving.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to have books about Thanksgiving for little children.

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, these were highlighted for teens graduating.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a Roy Cooper Democrat, North Carolina we're looking at.

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, those are counties.

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_04]: If that's a county library, that's the county.

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if Cooper's got anything to do with that.

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_04]: But the point you're making, and this is what I said, it's not that they care about this stuff.

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_04]: They're not repulsed by it.

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_04]: They think you are.

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_04]: That's why they're making this the issue.

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_04]: When we all know that they, like the biggest champions to legalize sex work and pornography are on the left.

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_04]: They're not on the right.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_04]: So it's not a matter of them being repulsed or offended by his fetishes or anything like that if he wrote this stuff.

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_04]: It's that they think you are.

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_04]: So you shouldn't vote for him.

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Because they know who they're voting for.

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_04]: But, yeah, I appreciate the call.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Let me go over to Josephine before we go to the news here.

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello, Josephine.

[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_01]: You brought up Assembly, the Assembly Group, in talking about Robinson's situation.

[00:29:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's a publication.

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Did you say George Soros funds that?

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_04]: According to the lawsuit, they said that, yeah, apparently it's connected to Soros, which I was unaware of before I read that in the lawsuit today.

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, he's trying to ruin our country just about single-handedly.

[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure a lot of the war chest that Paris has came from Soros, probably.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_04]: That who has?

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, George Soros, through his various, quote-unquote, philanthropic operations, funds tons of leftist nonprofits.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah, Josephine, I appreciate the call.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_04]: It is, yeah, it's not surprising that there would be a connection because he funds so much of it.

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_04]: And to be fair to George Soros, he's not just trying to destroy America.

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a whole bunch of other Western countries.

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, look, that's why, like, where was it?

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Was it France?

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Is it France he's not allowed to go back to because they convicted him in absentia?

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_04]: I think it was France.

[00:30:53] [SPEAKER_04]: The guy who broke the British pound, right, destroyed the currency in England.

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah, he's got a bit of a record.

[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_04]: From the lawsuit, real quick, this was towards the very end of it.

[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_04]: The complaint says,

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Lieutenant Robinson can never be fully compensated for the damage done by the defendant's lies.

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_04]: His private and public lives have been devastated.

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Friends and family have turned their backs on him.

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_04]: He has been humiliated.

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_04]: It is therefore imperative that CNN, Lewis Money, and anyone else involved be held fully accountable,

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_04]: not just to mitigate the harm they have done, but to vindicate Lieutenant Governor Robinson

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_04]: and allow him to begin the healing process.

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_04]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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