MAGA candidate may have forged basic training paperwork for his day care facility: report

Far-right North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, currently running for governor, may have falsified even more paperwork for his controversial day care facility than previously reported.

Last week, reports indicated that Robinson and his wife Yolanda Hill were cited by inspectors for falsifying criminal background checks for the people they hired to oversee children at their facility, Precious Beginnings Child Development Center, which they operated in Greensboro from 2000 to 2007 — alongside safety issues like not properly putting down infants on their backs, improperly storing medication and baby formula, and not properly childproofing electrical outlets. But the progressive blog Carolina Forward claims to have unearthed evidence that even more documents may have been forged.

Specifically, according to Carolina Forward, inspectors in 2005 found Robinson and his wife "forged a fake Basic School Age Care (BSAC) training certificate, in violation of state law" — and they produced an inspection report that appeared to corroborate this allegation.

Robinson, a Trump ally who surprised political observers by winning the lieutenant governorship in 2020, is now challenging Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein for the governorship.

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He has come under fire for a series of hateful social media activity, including posts demeaning and dehumanizing LGBTQ people, calling school shooting survivors "prosti-tots," downplaying the severity of the Holocaust, and suggesting that former NFL star Ray Rice's battered girlfriend deserved her domestic abuse. He has said that elementary schools should not teach science or history, and even opined that American politics was better back when women didn't have the right to vote, although he claims that his comments were misconstrued.

On top of all of this controversy, reporting earlier this year suggested that Robinson, who on the campaign has derided a lack of personal responsibility in America, failed to file his taxes for five years.