Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal Trump cases cost taxpayers more than $50 million, financials show

Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigations into Donald Trump over the last two years - which he opted to dismiss this week - have likely cost U.S. taxpayers more than $50 million, according to Department of Justice expenditure reports.

These costs include both direct and indirect expenses, the latter of which is provided through various Department of Justice agencies.

Expenditure figures for the months between April 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2024, have yet to be released, but 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.

"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.'"