WAPO Reports That Trump’s Lies About The Election Being Stolen Has Cost Taxpayers Over 500 Million Dollars And Counting

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There’s no denying that Donald Trump spent his entire term in office costing the American taxpayers millions and billions of dollars in various expenses ranging from hundreds of trips to his personal golf resorts to extra, unnecessary Secret Service detail for his wife and adult kids. And now, thanks to his hair-brained and downright dangerous election conspiracy theories, he is still costing the American people an obscene amount of money, even as a private citizen.

A new analysis from The Washington Post has determined that former President Trump’s election fraud lies have cost taxpayers in this nation a staggering nearly half a billion dollars and his tab is still going up.

“President Donald Trump’s onslaught of falsehoods about the November election misled millions of Americans, undermined faith in the electoral system, sparked a deadly riot — and has now left taxpayers with a large, and growing, bill. The total so far: $519 million,” the report reads.

“The costs have mounted daily as government agencies at all levels have been forced to devote public funds to respond to actions taken by Trump and his supporters, according to a Washington Post review of local, state, and federal spending records, as well as interviews with government officials,” the newspaper explains in their analysis. “The expenditures include legal fees prompted by dozens of fruitless lawsuits, enhanced security in response to death threats against poll workers, and costly repairs needed after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. That attack triggered the expensive massing of thousands of National Guard troops on the streets of Washington amid fears of additional extremist violence.”

Even now, as he is forced to adjust to life as a private citizen, Donald Trump still refuses to officially concede or admit that he lost the election to President Joe Biden.

“Although more than $480 million of the total is attributable to the military’s estimated expenses for the troop deployment through mid-March, the financial impact of the president’s refusal to concede the election is probably much higher than what has been documented thus far, and the true costs may never be known,” the report reads. “Many officials contacted by The Post said they were still trying to tally the cost of rapidly scaling up security to deal with the increased threat of violence from Trump supporters. Others have given up on trying to calculate their costs — perplexed over how to calculate the financial impact of a president’s injecting so much instability into the democratic system — opting instead to simply absorb them as the cost of doing business in the Trump era.”

You can check out the full analysis here:

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