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Former President Donald Trump caused taxpayers to fund between $100,000 and $1 billion for each of the following:
• Multiple civil and criminal investigations in the decades before his presidency
• The prosecutions and incarcerations of his former attorney, chief financial officer and campaign manager
• Extra Secret Service costs for over 300 golf trips
• The Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, also known as the Mueller Report
• State defenses of dozens of litigations to reverse the 2020 election
• Two impeachments
• Ten House hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot
• The apprehensions, prosecutions and incarcerations of hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters
• Two current Department of Justice investigations
• The current New York indictment.
Not considering the dollar value of human life, Trump’s inept actions and inactions relative to the first year of COVID-19 cost cities, states and Uncle Sam billions for virus-related expenses.
The above events are the antithesis of law-and-order conservatism, fiscal conservatism and moral conservatism.
