WASHINGTON North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson on Tuesday filed a $50 million lawsuit against CNN after the news site reported on years of disturbing comments he appeared to have made on a porn site forum.

With his attorney at his side, Robinson, who is currently the states lieutenant governor, said hes suing for defamation after a CNN report last month uncovered troubling comments he apparently made in a forum on a porn site, Nude Africa, including referring to himself as a black Nazi and describing being sexually aroused by spying on women in showers.

The report also appeared to show Robinson calling himself a perv who likes pornography featuring transgender people a sharp contrast with his present-day transphobic rhetoric .

What this amounts to is, to quote Clarence Thomas, this is a high-tech lynching on a candidate who has been targeted from day one by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed, Robinson said at a press conference. We are going to take these first steps to fight against what we consider to be one of the greatest examples of political interference in the states history and quite possibly this nations history.

Those are some dramatic statements, but for now, thats all hes got. CNN meticulously reported its story and laid out how, exactly, it connected Robinson to the trove of comments in the porn site forum. Robinson didnt present any new evidence to back up his claims in his lawsuit.

Robinsons lawyer, Jesse Binnall with the Binnall Law Group, didnt exactly present the strongest legal argument for their defamation case, either.

A left-wing media outlet is going to do everything they can to stop this man from being governor because they know this man has an ability to connect with voters in a way that, quite frankly, scares them, Binnall said.

CNN declined to comment to HuffPost.