His argument was he had to ask for that welfare money to invest in his concussion drug because now he's feeling the consequences. No sympathy whatsoever, you're on record asking for MORE welfare money after you were already illegally given some.
Mississippi is the poorest state in the country, if rich people get their welfare money, we might as well just give it all to the rich for whatever they want, but it doesn't matter because middle class people will still be more upset they pay for poor people to eat than for rich people to buy 3rd houses (the DiBiase method from this scandal)