‘Some Folks Need Killing!’ NC GOP Governor Nominee Delivers Wild Rant in Speech at Church

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) delivered a shocking campaign speech at a church this week, calling for the “killing” of a wide range of foes ranging from America’s past war enemies to “wicked people” and those who kick conservatives off social media.

Robinson is no stranger to controversial remarks, including saying that Black Americans owe reparations, referring to members of the LGBTQ community as “maggots,” calling Michelle Obama a man, and denying the Holocaust. He was endorsed by former President Donald Trump and won his March primary to face North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) in November to replace term-limited Gov. Roy Cooper (D).

Robinson’s rant about killing people was delivered at Lake Church in the small town of White Lake, North Carolina and was first reported by The New Republic’s Greg Sargent. The speech was part of a “God and Country Sunday” event that is still on the church’s Facebook page.

The Republican candidate’s speech was “yet another example of an ugly game widely played on the MAGA right, one supercharged by Donald Trump,” wrote Sargent, and “entails hinting that right-wing political violence is necessary and justified because a ubiquitous, all-seeing, all-powerful leftist threat—one that is pure invention—is already supposedly attacking and persecuting conservatives on a mass scale.”

From Sargent’s transcription of Robinson’s remarks:

We now find ourselves struggling with people who have evil intent. You know, there’s a time when we used to meet evil on the battlefield, and guess what we did to it? We killed it! … When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, what did we do? We flew to Japan! And we killed the Japanese Army and Navy! … We didn’t argue and capitulate and talk about, well, maybe we shouldn’t fight the Nazis that hard. No, they’re bad. Kill them. Some liberal somewhere is going to say that sounds awful. Too bad. Get mad at me if you want to.

Some folks need killing! It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity! When you have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping. It’s time to call out, uh, those guys in green and go have them handled. Or those boys in blue and have them go handle it….

We need to start handling our business again… Don’t you feel it slipping away? … The further we start sliding into making 1776 a distant memory and the tenets of socialism and communism start coming into clearer focus. They’re watching us. They’re listening to us. They’re tracking us.

They get mad at you. They cancel you. They dox you. They kick you off social media. They come in and close down your business. Folks, it’s happening … because we have forgotten who we are.

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