According to USA Today, the Department of Justice has spent a total of $29.4 million on investigations into President Donald Trump and his associates since 2016, compared to $6.4 million for investigations into Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his associates. This includes both criminal and counterintelligence investigations.
The largest portion of the Trump-related investigations was spent on the two-year special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any potential collusion with the Trump campaign, totaling at $25.2 million. Other Trump-related investigations include:
-$2 million on the criminal tax fraud case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
-$981,000 on the investigation into Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer
-$158,000 for the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
The biggest expense for the Biden-related investigations was for the investigation into Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, which totaled $4.8 million. The other investigations related to Joe Biden totaled $1.6 million. These investigation include the investigation into the Ukraine gas company, Burisma.
The exact purposes and scope of many of these investigations are unknown as they are ongoing. However, these figures serve as an illustration of the expense behind criminal and counterintelligence investigations and the vast discrepancy between those related to Trump and his associates, compared to those related to Biden and his associates.
