“Special counsel Jack Smith spent more than $7 million over a six-month period last year as he indicted and prepared to prosecute former president Donald Trump, bringing the total cost of Smith’s work to date to over $12 million,” the Washington Post reports.
Special Counsel Has Spent $12 Million Prosecuting Trump
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