Biden-Harris admin’s prosecution of Trump cost taxpayers over $50 MILLION

From mid-November 2022, as Smith received his special counsel appointment, until March 31, 2023, his office spent $9.25 million. During the next six months, he upped the spending to $14.66 million. His last financial disclosure reveals that he went through another $11.84 million from Oct. 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024.

Although the cost for the last six months of Smith’s work – from Apr. 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 2024 – were not included in the DOJ documents, it is estimated to be about $12 million based on his previous spending habits total: $47.5 million. Add what Smith has most likely spent up to the conclusion of his case and the new total is easily over $50 million, Fox News noted.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith in November 2022 to command the DOJ’s probe into Trump’s supposed election interference as well as his alleged mishandling of classified files. Following a comprehensive, almost two-year investigation that resulted in Trump being taken into custody for his now-famous mugshot and hauled into court, Smith abandoned all his cases against the president-elect on Monday. He admitted he couldn’t prosecute a sitting president.

On Monday evening, Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to Smith’s motion to dismiss the January 6 case against Trump. A decision on the classified files case is still pending, according to the Associated Press. "The Government has moved to dismiss the Superseding Indictment without prejudice," Chutkan wrote, adding that the "Defendant does not oppose the Motion" and "the court will grant it."

Chutkan also said, "Dismissal without prejudice is appropriate here. When a prosecutor moves to dismiss an indictment without prejudice, 'there is a strong presumption in favor' of that course. A court may override the presumption only when dismissal without prejudice 'would result in harassment of the defendant or would otherwise be contrary to the manifest public interest.' As already noted, there is no indication of prosecutorial harassment or other impropriety underlying the Motion, and therefore no basis for overriding the presumption—and Defendant does not ask the court to do so."

Trump was quick to react to the judge's decision Monday, saying the special counsel’s cases were "empty and lawless," adding that they "should never have been brought."

"Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before," Trump wrote on Truth Social, before laying into state prosecutors and district attorneys, such as Fulton County DA Fani Willis, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and New York state Attorney General Letitia James, who Trump said "inappropriately, unethically and probably illegally campaigned on ‘GETTING TRUMP.’"