Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., issued an ultimatum to North Carolina's GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson following the bombshell report of his alleged porn scandal, saying that he "owes it to President Trump."

"If the reporting on Mark Robinson is a total media fabrication, he needs to take immediate legal action," Tillis said in a Friday post on X. 

"If the reporting is true, he owes it to President Trump and every Republican to take accountability for his actions and put the future of NC & our party before himself," he said.

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Tillis' statement came after Robinson made a social media video denying his involvement in the scandal and vowing to remain in the race to become the Old North State's governor.

"Let me reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson. You know my words, you know my character, and you know that I have been completely transparent in this race and before. Folks, this race right now, our opponents are desperate to shift the focus here from the substantive issues and focus on what you are concerned with to salacious trap, tabloid trash," he said in the X video. 

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Fox News Digital has reached out to Robinson's campaign for comment.

In comments to CNN, Robinson said that this was "not us."

"This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me," Robinson said. "I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies."

In CNN's report Thursday afternoon, the outlet alleged Robinson's previous use of a pornography site, called "Nude Africa."

On the pornographic site, Robinson allegedly messaged with fellow users regarding peeping on women in locker rooms as a teenager, describing himself as a "black NAZI" and declaring a fondness for transgender pornography. The candidates' involvement spanned from 2008 to 2012, according to CNN, well before Robinson entered the political arena in 2019.

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CNN's report alleged that Robinson used a pseudonym on the porn site, "minisoldr."

"I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered," Robinson allegedly wrote on Nude Africa.

In another post in 2010, CNN reported Robinson allegedly stated, "I’m a Black Nazi!" while discussing Black Republicans. 

The allegations come as North Carolina remains a highly contested battleground state as the 2024 election inches closer.

The key battleground states – including North Carolina – had razor-thin margins that decided President Biden's 2020 election victory over Trump.

In 2020, Trump narrowly won North Carolina by just over 1 point. The latest polls in the monumental 2024 presidential race suggest a coin-toss race, with the former president holding the slightest edge.

Fox News Digital's Emma Colton, Paul Steinhauser and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.

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Eight firefighters were injured – six critically – after their fire truck rolled over and crashed on a California freeway as they were returning from a shift battling a devastating wildfire.

The group of firefighters were returning to the station after battling the exhaustive 23,000 Airport Fire during a 12-hour shift, when the truck unexpectedly overturned on an Irvine, California, freeway around 6:50 p.m. local time Thursday. 

The crash left eight people hurt, one of them needing to be airlifted out of the scene. 

Six of the eight crash victims were critically injured and taken to local trauma centers.

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Photos and videos from the scene showed the devastated fire truck on it's side after the crash.

Authorities did not specify what led to the accident, but it remains under investigation.

Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy said in a press conference on Thursday night that the vehicle "did swerve for whatever [reason] and did roll several times. What caused that, again, I have some thoughts, but I don't have any factual information."

During a press conference on Friday morning, Fennessy provided an update on the injured firefighters, saying that they had a "long road" of recovery ahead of them.

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"We ask that you pray for our firefighters and their families," Fennessy said. "This is the beginning of a long road for many of those firefighters and our fire departments."

Fennessy said Friday morning that the six firefighters injured in the crash remained hospitalized in conditions ranging from "stable to critical." 

He said "many of the injured are going to be hospitalized for quite a while," but he did not provide specifics about the injuries. Two other firefighters injured in the crash were treated and released on Thursday evening.

"Our crews, as you can imagine, are devastated," Fennessey said. "As you can imagine how traumatic it would be to see your fellow firefighters that injured in the middle of the freeway."

The California fire chief said that the community was hurting after the incident, but that he was confident that they would "rally around each other."

"This is devastating for me, personally, devastating for everybody in the fire service here in Orange County," Fennessey said. "We're heartbroken, we're devastated, but there's no doubt in my mind that the crews, firefighters, our professional staff — everybody involved are going to rally around each other, and we're going to be stronger because of it."