North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson gave a fiery speech in Greenville for the annual GOP state convention, saying President Joe Biden‘s administration was turning the United States into a “socialist hellhole.”
Robinson, a rising conservative firebrand, became lieutenant governor after the November 2020 election, making him the first black person to serve the state in that office.
During his speech at the Republican convention over the weekend, Robinson told a crowd of listeners it was their duty to “run into the trouble.”
“During 9/11, people running away from those burning buildings, running away in horror … we saw policemen and firemen running to those buildings, basically running to their deaths, to go help others, because they saw trouble and they knew that they were needed,” Robinson said.
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“That’s got to be us on this day, right here. We’ve got to run to the trouble, folks,” he added.
Robinson, who has said he came from a “poverty-stricken background,” defined “the trouble” in several ways, saying, “The trouble is the Biden administration, that is seeking to turn this country into a socialist hellhole.”
“The trouble is antifa, that wants to roam the streets and beat you into submission,” he added. “The trouble is Black Lives Matter, that claims to care about the lives of black people, but it’s turned a blind eye while violence in black communities are taking lives at a genocidal rate. They’ve turned a blind eye.”
Robinson told the crowd at the conservative convention that it shares the same heritage as those during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks “who ran towards those burning buildings.”
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“You do not share your heritage with weak and ineffective people who cower at the sign of trouble,” Robinson said.
