Donald Trump called allegedly self-professed “Black Nazi” Mark Robinson “better than MLK” when he endorsed him to be the next North Carolina governor. Trump appeared at Robinson’s rally in March and adoringly talked up the lieutenant governor as he stood beside him on stage.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s Republican candidate for governor, said he would stay in the race and denied new accusations that he posted racist, antigay and inflammatory comments on a pornography-website message board more than a decade ago.

Trump has yet to speak out as Robinson faces pressures to exit the North Carolina gubernatorial race after reports of his past messages to an adult website.