Financial records have revealed that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s politically motivated cases against President Donald Trump cost American taxpayers a whopping $50 million.
In an effort to derail Trump’s 2024 presidential election campaign, Smith led two cases against Trump on behalf of the Democrats.
However, the American people have been left with a hefty bill for Smith’s “investigations” into Trump over the last two years.
The cost of the unprecedented lawfare was revealed in Department of Justice (DOJ) expenditure reports.
Trump announced his 2024 presidential run on November 15, 2022, shortly after Republicans won back the House in the midterm elections.
On November 18, 2022, Smith was appointed special counsel by Democrat President Joe Biden’s DOJ and tasked with “investigating” Trump.
Financial disclosures from the Special Counsel’s Office show that from mid-November 2022 until March 31, 2023, Smith’s office incurred costs of about $9.25 million.
A second disclosure laying out the office’s expenditures for the following six months showed the office’s spending increased to roughly $14.66 million.
Meanwhile, a third expenditure report, the latest available, showed that from Oct. 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, Smith’s office spent roughly $11.84 million.
These costs include both direct and indirect expenses, the latter of which is provided through various DOJ agencies.
Expenditure figures for the months between April 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2024, have yet to be released.
However, the average of the three reported periods is roughly $12 million.
When that estimate is added to the numbers from the three reporting periods that have been publicly reported, the amount spent by Smith’s office since he was appointed rounds to about $47.5 million.
However, this estimate does not include any expenditures from September 30 to date.
The total money spent is likely more than $50 million, Newsweek reported.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith in November 2022 to launch two “investigations” into Trump.
One case was the federal Jan. 6 investigation into Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election.
The other was related to Trump’s handling of sensitive classified documents, which Democrats claim was improper.
After an exhaustive, nearly two-year investigation, and other cases that saw Trump surrendering to authorities for a mugshot, Smith filed motions on Monday to dismiss the cases against the president-elect.
Smith cited procedural standards that preclude the prosecution of a sitting president.
The Obama-appointed judge overseeing the Jan. 6 case agreed to drop the charges.
Meanwhile, a decision on the classified documents case was still pending as of Monday evening, according to the Associated Press.
Trump responded to the judge’s decision Monday.
He called the investigations he has been subjected to “empty and lawless.”
He added that they “should never have been brought.”
“Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He continued by blasting state prosecutors and district attorneys, such as Fulton County DA Fani Willis, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and New York State Attorney General Letitia James, all career Democrats.
Trump said the Democrat prosecutors “inappropriately, unethically and probably illegally campaigned on ‘GETTING TRUMP.’”
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