Welfare-bashing MAGA candidate's political rise 'wouldn’t have been possible without it'

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, now running for governor on a platform that includes blasting social programs as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that creates "dependency" for Black people, actually owed his own personal and political fortunes to profiting off these programs in the first place.

According to the Associated Press, "Over the past decade, Robinson’s household has relied on income from Balanced Nutrition Inc., a nonprofit founded by his wife, Yolanda Hill, that...