Russia probe’s price tag nearly $32 million, DOJ says

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The Justice Department says the Russia probe cost nearly $32 million

That total covers all of Mueller’s receipts through the end of May, soon after he had closed his office and issued his final

By far, Mueller’s largest line-item went toward salaries and benefits: $9.7 million over the course of his nearly two-year investigation. His office also reported spending $3.1 million on rent, communications and utilities; $1.6 million on travel and personal transportation; and $902,000 on contractual services that primarily covered information technology.

In fact, Mueller’s spending has been far less than that. And that also doesn’t count the nearly $42 million the government has taken into its coffers from Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman whose conviction and plea deal resulted in the forfeiture back to the Treasury of real estate, bank accounts and a life-insurance policy.

 

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Nice fat checks for Hilary supporters

That's a mere fraction of what Trump has spent on golf alone and nothing compared to the damage they ( Russian operatives) have caused and will cause in our future elections!

Send the dems the bill

What is that - a couple of realDonaldTrump golfing trips?

Minus Rump’s parade.

What a sham.

Trump owns the left.

Trump cost the taxpayers 106 million playing golf since elected

And Trumps golf outing that he takes cost taxpayers $3.4 million each time he plays. That's a whopping total of $102 million. What were you saying again?

Rather pay for the report than golf at resorts putting money in Trump's pockets.

jetrotter And they prosecuted process crimes and no Russians. What a joke

What’s that measured in T’s golf trips?

Wasted

Now tell us about the countless HRC investigations.

So. Sounds like a good start.

Right ? It as a department aint the shining star of integrity any more. Legal cost to stop the release of information in redactions ? legal cost to fight for Trump's fights for keeping his information hidden? feeding Barr ? Trump's legal defense fund

How much did Trey Gowdy pretend Benghazi hearings cost?

So it ran at a profit?! Better start another then.

Waste of taxpayers money..Washington is amuck!..

A mere pittance compared to what it brought in and Trumo's golf outings combined.

That’s cheap ! Asshat has spent over hundred million play golf.

The Republicans are straight-up troublemakers. All they do is waste tax payers money with their 💩💩💩💩.

And then you bring up the fact it made a profit. Better reporting and a stronger headline.

Compared to the cost of Mara largo excursions, 30 mil is a drop in the bucket for transparency

OMG, Russian interference in the election was FAR Fucking More Costly.

Oh really.... Mueller seized 48 million in assets that looks like a money maker

I’m not sure the cost is relevant...let’s remember this investigation was started by THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. The special prosecutor was appointed by Trump’s Attorney General. There is no one to blame but Trump’s own people.

He recouped more than that from Pauly alone.

Worth every penny.

What’s 32mill to a country with Tens of trillions? After all, the probe was for their own good even if GOP shall never admit for fear of realDonaldTrump

And?

That trumps fault 'RUSSIA' HIS CAMPAIN LIES, hatred,harass HILARY,ETC,etc,...

Trump in office is costing us trillions.

Isn’t that less than it has cost Americans for Trump to go golfing or hang out at his properties.

About the same as our presidents golf excursions.

Mueller recovered more then that in assets! Not to mention Trumps golf trips!! GOP’s fear and loathing of Hillary Clinton cost us 100 million!! 😡

Bill the DNC for perpetuating that BS!

And resulted in seizure of $40 million from Manafort added together equals 6 months costs for golfing trips for Trump!

How about Trumps golf outings?

But how much did they recover from seizing Manafort's property?

Why did a two year investigation cost so much?

Can we make Trump to pay for this as he created this shit by working with Putin

Worth every penny

And it uncovered a lot of crimes.

Politico, please do better. The investigation brought in more than what it cost.

That's less than Trumps spends for his golfing trips on our money. I'd say we got a better deal with Mueller

and how much $ did Manafort give to the budget? more than $32 million---

There should be no price we won’t pay to protect our elections and our democracy.

And it got results that this administration doesn’t want to deal with.

Maybe we should do something after spending that money, like impeachment

Drop in the bucket with our president. He spends more than that on nepotism weekly

Which is pennies.

And manafort assets what, $40 mil? That's an $8 mil surplus. Much more than China is punky paying us in dotards Bullshit tariffs

now add up Benghazi.

BUT 20 MILLION was recouped

And it was very productive. So what's your point? Don't talk about spending when republicans are trying to break the bank

How much for trump golf trips thus far?

Horrible headline. Why did you chose this rather than saying the investigation turned a profit? This investigation cost us nothing, while President Imbecile's golf outings have cost us over 100M.

And took in over $45 million from Paul Manafort to cover it.

Your headline fails to say how much the investigation recovered - making it net positive

Productive and cheap. Best thing the government had done in a long time. 👏👏

How much money was recovered from the arrests? Why don’t you report on that piece of information. Another report should follow with Trump’s cost to play golf all in the same article. Then let’s compare where our money is going.

worth every penny,...

Awesome, how much was the gop witchhunt into benghazi? 8 committeess 33 public hearings, 4 years and final report says everyone did everything they could and no charges for anyone, not even a Jay walking ticket, it was an investigation made by fox news in search of a crime

Didn’t he recover between $42,000,000 & $46,000,000 from Manafort forfeiture? Doesn’t that make his cost a negative $10-$16,000,000?

What was the amount paid to Mueller for his services?

How many Golf trip equivalents is that

We wouldn’t have needed it if Trump wasn’t involved

Still 8 million to good since thats what Mueller recovered just from Corrupt trump Campaign Director Manafort

That is about 1/2 of what realDonaldTrump cost the tax payers to go golfing. Remember what he said while campaigning - “when I’m in the W/H I’ll be too busy to golf”

Many times greater than what the Russians spent on social media posts

And they recovered $40 million.

It was worth every penny & costs a lot less than Trump's taxpayer funded golfing.

And trump golf trips have cost $340 million - think about that AnyoneButTrump2020

And the Probe recovered more than that in fines

Manafort forfeited $42Million, so the Taxpayers actually made a $10Million profit! ThankYouMrMeuller!

Waste of our money on a hoax...smh

'Cost of Mueller’s investigation: $3,200,000; Benghazi 'investigation': $7,000,000; Trump’s golfing trips: $83,000,000; New debt from Republican tax bill: $1,500,000,000,000.'

How much was the Benghazi fiasco?

A bargain at twice that, compared to the damage 45 has done to this country

Who cares that anywhere near what Donald Trump is golfing every other weekend

Then we need to take the 8 million surplus and give to Charity.

But with all money they took from Manafort has payed for it.

And....how much money did it recover. Don't lie us, do your job!

Trumptakesrussianfunds

Democrat witch hunt vote the bums out

Yes that certainly was a lot of money for the investigation however look at what it cost the American people for the Russians to interfere with our election has anybody tried to figure out the cost of that I don't think you can even put a price on it. The Cost is too high!

And the money ceased for a net gain of ?

... and the FBI confiscated a floor in Trump Tower as part of it’s investigation 🤣🤣🤣🤣

And recovered over than $45 million and more indictments and convictions than any other special prosecution. All in all a good job well done. In the meantime Trump has cost taxpayers over $100million for his golf weekends at his own resorts! Taxpayer $$$ in Trumo pockets!

What a waste of precious taxpayer money, by biased bunch of Clinton hacks, Corrupt Comey release of confidential info, wiretapping opponents campaign and Cllinton paying for dossier. Stupid Rosenstein ( now gone) investigated the wrong campaign. Been a Wash swamper for too long!

Way to go Dems...

You need to be griping about the wall and looking into Trumps accounts.

Worth every penny and by the way how come you didn’t add that the fines and confiscation of assets from Cohen, Manafort et al cover for a lot of it You are pathetic in your one sided reporting

Collective price tag for 2 military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan? 6 Trillion. Russian hack of our political system - worth investigating after 17 intelligence entities confirmed it. Witch hunt? No. National Security.

How come hea DC lines don't mention the $$$ that they recovered from Manafort😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

federalreserve Pay it off with what you get from Manafort seizures. Don’t put the money into general funds or G-D forbid the Wall.

Which means it turned a PROFIT for the government in the tens of millions, when you take into account what was seized as a result of what Mueller investigated (and what the DOJ continues to investigate).

Trump made more than that double dealing with the government paying for his golf excursions at his resorts.

Hmm...no mention of the recuperated funds.

Less thana third of the presidents golf tab, pretty good deal I’d say

Make Russia pay for it!

Bill Barr's accounting

Wasted tax $$$

It made money. Make that the headline.

How much of that is offset by the seized assets of the criminals?

How much was the July 4th Bloated Extravaganza Trump gave himself?

I also thought it was said that Russia probe returned approx $40+ million? If so, there’s a net gain of approximate $8+ million. So the probe cost taxpayers zip? Of course Liar-in-Chief TsarTrump won’t admit it.

Yup..and?

With that kind of money we could have impeached all the Dems with dirty cities.

Then with the Manafort forfeiture, it actually made money for the government!

How is that a bad thing? In terms of government expenditures, that's a fairly cheap price tag compared to what is spent on the military and other key departments. The extensive probe was worth it (salaries & benefits too).

A bargain if it helps root out corruption

Less than Trump spends on going to his golf resorts.

Now do the gop’s tax scam

So, Trump sojourns to play golf cost over $100 million and counting. And, BTW, how much is it worth to prove Russian election meddling so we can try to prevent it (except for Moscow Mitch’s obstruction). And, did you know that one F-22 costs over $150 million. Yes, one (1).

Did it say how much it earned and profited? Did it also declare how much other investigations of less corrupt governments have cost? WHAT KIND OF TWEET IS THIS?

They realize we figured out that russians did mess with the election and the probe found that out right?

Melissa31920880 They all need to be arrested.

And how much have US taxpayers spent on Trump’s golfing?

...this is how the Democrats waste money to support their hate.

And brought in $48 million from Manafort.

Yes, but it forced the forfeiture of assets well above that figure as part of the plea deal and sentencing of Manafort! Have we received a financial analysis of the Benghazi sham? No? The email nonsense? No? Hmmm, odd, don't you think?

NET COST .. LESS THAN ZERO $40M IN ASSETS SEIZED 🎉

This done all the time recycling the flow of 💰 in the pockets of these old menand their cronies....this go for Black and Hispanic politicians because the power is with the Communist Right this we know now.

This is way less than what the Trump campaign received from the NRA... funneled from Russia?

Money well spent if all the trash gets thrown out the WH!

The investigations obstruction greatly increase their work. Thank Trump for some of this expense.

It made money.

They're massaging price tab

So subtract the $40 million made off Manafort’s criminal enterprise and it sounds like it was a very good deal.

So, still not as much as all that golfing.

And what's the price tag for Trump's weekly golf excursions? Or taking the family to England recently? Or sleepy Melania's jaunt to Africa? Did that produce any results? 🤔

Of which, $42 million was seized.

He got back a substantial amount of that money from the other traitor manafort.

Well that’s a lot less than trump’s golfing weekends!!

Half what we pay for Trump to go to his minigolf course every weekend?

Democrats are corrupt.

And how much was added to the treasury from Manafort forfeitures? (And, btw, how much did the whole pointless Benghazi thing--all 8 separate probes--cost?)

Now add in the money seized by Mueller from Manafort and there’s a profit.

Good. Cheap at twice that price.

Less than Trump golf outings

Paul Manafort picked up the tab

Just tack that $32 million onto the $2.7 trillion and we're good.

How much have trumps weekly golf outings cost? How much has trumps manufactured crisis at the border cost taxpayers? The needless & unprecedented expansion of detention centers was designed to fill the pockets of his donors while exerting unbounded cruelty on families.

Seems very cheap to defend the country against a foreign attack. Good job.

Worth it

Politico, ur sliding right. Seized assets more than covered cost. Trump wastes more golfing. Cover that

So if that doesn't count the money made from Paul Manafort assets, then why is that the title of the article? That seems a bit misleading; that or your article is poorly written, but either way... 🙄

That’s nothing compared to how much trump is using our tax money to support his immediate & extended family

So. Get it back from realDonaldTrump , his bunch of grifting family members, his mobster friends, and Russian assets in GOP

And pulled in more than that in fines.

$42M taken in

Doing nothing with the probe results ... priceless!

Democrats and Clinton should be made to 💰

Look how much we spend on farm tariffs and the military budget.

How much did the war-for-oil in Iraq cost?

Worth every penny. Besides, I believe Mueller recovered more than he spent, so you might want to adjust your story header to reflect that.

The return on investment of safeguarding democracy is priceless. 32M is nothing for protecting elections vs Benghazi—utter politically motivated.

And so many people didn't read it.

Aaaaand how much is the current bill on Trump playing golf?

How much has realDonaldTrump golf trips cost us?

For no collusion and confirming what the intel community already knew about Russian interference in the elections

Money well spent less then 5 trips to that shithole Maralago

What is $32 million when President Trump spent $70 million on trips to Mar -a-Lago and other places to play golf.

So what? Fake 45 and Russia have cost us much more than that figure!

How many went to jail and how much forfeited assets.

Finding criminals is never cheap but at least they recovered $45M...they made money.

Didn't get your money's worth, eh?

Just looking at the costs is not very ‘businesswise’

Can we, the American people see an accounting of how and where our $32 Million was spent? Whose pockets in is in?

That's a deal compared to what he's spent on golf outings & travel for him & his crime family..

All based on a dossier the perpetrators knew was phony! No penalties for the known crime of presenting what they knew was false information to a FISA Court? And Trump was investigated in ‘search’ of a crime? Shame on our ‘injustice’ system!

Well worth it and much less than Trump's golf weekends

With the prosecution of Paul Manafort, with fines and forfeiture of assets, Mueller probe brought in over 40 million dollars.

realDonaldTrump has spent more than $340 million on golf trips -Vote

That’s true but you forgot to mention that the Mueller InvestigationReport helped recover/reclaim approx. 30 million of the 32 million spent on his Investigation

Has to be WAY LESS than the MarALago and TrumpNationalNY travel costs.

Guess Manafort's apartment wasn't worth much after all; not enough to offset the cost of the probe.

The definition of insanity is trying something over and over again expecting different results. It's time to move on. In 100 years America will have had all kinds of different presidents from all walks of life. Unless of course we keep working against each other.

Golf outings st Trump properties so far nearly $200m

What’s the total after the amount Mueller raked in when they busted Cohen & Manafort? Try again.

Manaforts seized profits are worth an estimated $ 45-50 million. Mueller profited for tax payers.

wow, Democrats blew that kind of taxpayers money on what?

Yeah, but it made a profit

And Frump's tax breaks cost us trillions.

headline should also include how much they brought in as income due to forfeitures, fines, etc. I have read it is more than 32 million...

A bargain! Now do all the golf trips

You woulda been surprised what it woulda yielded if Barr hadn't interfered & shut it down

DOJ forgot to mention the millions of profit the Mueller probe gained.

realDonaldTrump spends 3 times that playing golf, go figure !

Sick. I want my money back 🤮

So it ran a profit after forfeitures

Oh...But it paid for itself! On the money it took in. Trump spends that on golf weekends over just THREE Months...all on our tax payer $$! No refunds there.

Politico. Why lead with this headline You completely leave out how much was made in successful prosecution of Manafort etc. The money that was collected far surpasses the cost of the investigation! Come on! You and cnn had the same headline. Come on!!!

And many indictments.

Yeah they need to send that bill to the democratic party and all of its deplorable‘s ,should have to pay that back to the United States government

Chicken feed compared to Trump's 120 million cost to play golf.

All that dough to take down Trump. What a waste of time and money.

How many homeless could have been helped with that money?

Was this guy there or did he read the report .No fucken way this guy wrote more than his signature !!

And it's worth every penny.

And each trip that DontheCon takes to Mar a Lago costs taxpayers about 3.4 million dollars.. how many times has he been there again?

And well worth every nickel cause when Trump leaves office he’s goin to jail where he belongs.

It was well worth it

& your point is?

Yeah? How much will having a Russian-controlled POTUS and Senate leader cost us?

And what did the guilty pleas bring in as confiscated assets?

And the gov’t made money on Manaforts property they seized. And I do believe the profits outweighed the costs of the investigations.

Trumps golf trips will surpass that figure

For naught!

That wouldn’t pay for only a few of the electrical components for ONE F-35 purchased from Turkey who sleeps with Russia 🇷🇺

How much has Trump’s golfing cost?

How much was the Manafort forfeiture?

It cost trumps election win over $150 million in laundered money from RUSSIA to ensure he won. And over 2 trillion for his budget for depts. Then 10 billion for the WALL. So don't bitch on the cost of finding out trump is a criminal.

So. Trump spent more than that on golf.

Finding the truth is 'priceless.'

So what.

In my opinion, that was money well spent. Also, didn't Mueller seize properties in some of these cases? I seem to remember that he did. That surely offset some of the costs.

A bargain compared to the president’s corrupt use of his golf courses. Plus the various trials confiscated tens of millions in criminal gains.

That don't even scratch the surface of what Trump has made since he has been President. Trump is crooked and he must go now.

Dang shame they are ignoring the results then

Mueller should pay it back.

Well, like I said, that is the cost of one month golfing of Donald Trump at his own properties.

DonnieDumDum has spent more than that golfing...or at least putting up his security detail and guests at his own resort so the taxpayers money actually lands in his pocket!!

Spent more on Trump golf trips. Any questions?

And turned a profit of 10 million!

WRONG. This investigation almost ZEROED out due to monies collected from Manafort and others in back taxes, fines, etc.

They confirmed that Russia worked with Trump Campaign. Need we say any more

A lot more is costing and will cost , foreign hacks to interfere with our democratic process.

Does that include Mueller's Starbucks tab?

Money well spent... chasing and arresting criminals

It's a hoax and witch hunt from the start. The real probe should be Hillary selling uranium to Russia. Bcoz Russia is able to produce nuclear weapon and potentially could be used against US.

Cut trump’s selfish vanity trips to his own properties and that will cover the cost several times over

And some high profile criminals were prosecuted and put in prison with the exception of Trump, the RepublicanCowards wont make him accountable for his crimes of treason.

...and trump golf trips cost 340M.

Justice had a price.

Oh. The probe that the President and every Republican obstructed and delayed? All the President's men lying caused more and more investigation and misguided a lot as well. If the Repubs had been more interested in getting to the bottom of it, it would have cost much less.

lfsweets Does that include incarcerations?

Subtracting what they would have spent irregardless of the probe and the $42 mil collected sounds like it was a good investment to me.

So it cost us each $.10 ?

And how much had the Secret Service spent taking Trump golfing?

Thank God we made 49 million

Manforts assets took care of that.

Hey politico your hack titles have been fixed for you. 'Department of Justice says the Russia probe net gained over $10 million for the United States' now pay us for doing your job correctly.

But Manafort alone forfeited more than that, so the taxpayers made a profit.

That’s like 10 weekends of FatAssTrump golfing

How much did they collect from Manafort? Sounds like a lot less than Potus golfing

Not as much as Maralago

Which is about .003% of what the government spends as a whole in a single day, so...

Confiscating Manaforts assets was more than that.

One day of golf for Trumpy

How much did the Clinton probe cost. They investigated her for over 20 years.

I want a refund

How many golf trips is that?

What a waist of tax dollars . Thanks dumbacrats.

Far less than Melania's plastic surgeries and DT's golf outings

Trump has taken $102 million tax payers dollars and counting for his golfing and visits to his clubs. One is for national security and one is for a grifter.

how much have we paid mar a lago so far?

Less than—One third of the cost of Trumps goldfish outings, SO FAR.

An estimated $28.6 million in property & cash holdings,has been forfeited - the vast majority of it from Manafort. But CNBC reported that the real estate and cash holdings Paul Manafort was forfeiting as part of his plea deal could be worth upwards of $42 million to $46 million

But how much did it MAKE?

But how much did it bring in with forfeited assets?

But not as much as drumpf golf trips

Wasted time and money. Thanks, DC!

Mueller probably thinks that’s $32...

Almost the price of Manafort’s penthouse.

Thx, just trying to help the media do their constitutional duty!!

How much did they give Hillary? Hundreds of millions for Clinton global initiative And what did Obama mean, by tell Putin this is my last election, like he knew he had it in the bag? And why did he go from no million to 60 million?

You mean trumps justice department. How much was the 7 year investigation into the Clinton’s

Having an election influenced by a ruthless dictator resulting in the most corrupt administration in American history. Priceless. TrumpForPrison2020 TrumpIsARussianAsset TrumpTreason

Worth it if they would do something about it!

Strange that Trump's DOJ keeps bringing up how much the Mueller probe cost, but never mentions how many millions were RECOVERED FROM DEFENDANTS.

Can't wait to investigate a democrat for 2 years...

Should take away all the pensions of the guilty parties that caused the hoax break them take away their wealth

Barr’s justice department, lies!

Money well spent with a bunch of Trump's cronies indicted, convicted, or plea deals. Widespread criminality revealed, and impeachable offenses uncovered. The cost of doing nothing based on this info is incalculable. The nation will never recover if no action taken on Trump.

And then they got how much from Manafort?

How much money did they collect during the process, there were a lot of fines levied

And it was worth every penny, every minute and every criminal that was revealed!

NOT TRUE: the Mueller report will cost NOTHING! The investigation yielded substantial fines & settlements that will be MORE than the cost of Mueller’s entire probe! Manafort will forfeit more than $40 million in cash & property! No cost-just profit! DO IT OVER!

And your point is?

How much did we get in fines over it? Not to mention the convictions. The stupid GOP spent a ton on their Benghazi witch hunt and didn’t get jack shit!

But DOJ didn’t report income from fines, penalties and back taxes and you should.

That’s one day of golf for 45

Investigate what it earned in penalties and back taxes otherwise you are reporting one side of the story.

That’s outrageous, people are dying because they can’t afford their medicine and we have $32 Mil to spend. How come Bernie’s policies are considered pie in the sky, but no one bats an eye at 32 Million Dollars?

Ensuring fundamental integrity of our government: priceless

Substantially less than Trumps golf outings

Cool. Now do the cost of all of Trump’s golf trips to his own properties.

...and the US Govt got 42 million from Manafort, so we now have a +10 million in our coffers

so like a few months of Trump golf trips?

Compared to 41 million taken in

Pennies compared to trumps visit to his properties

How much do trump’s weekend trips cost?

Peanuts compared to what Trump has cost. A 4-hour a day work week. Golf every weekend. Dignity. Humanity. Honesty.

Politico leaving out that the Manafort investigation retrieved $42-$46 million - so Mueller made a profit.

So net gain of $8 million. A government program that actually made money? A first for the Trump regime!

So Bill Barr alone had the power to block, blurr, and rewrite a report that so much $$$ invested in? He acted On Trumo’s not American people’s behalf?

So but if we didn’t do it it would of cost us our Democracy

The biggest injustice in history. Go Trump...

How much is a weekend at Mar-A-Lago?

And for what other than a Democrat and LSM daily speculation cesspool

So?trump and his family costs us that much every time we have to cover their security. I would rather know the truth than protect trump.

And the GOP’s fear and loathing of Hillary Clinton cost you $100 million.

Time for Democrats to be coughing up some money Republican taxpayers should not be held accountable for this unjust investigation

And what about the millions Trump's golf and Mar-a-Lago vacations and holidays have cost us? $32 million is a small price to pay to help protect America from Russian meddling and Trump's criminality and incompetence.

If trump and his people weren’t so corrupt it would have cost Zero. Exactly how much it cost looking into Russia cooperating with other presidential campaigns.

They should send the bill to the democrat party.

And it was worth nothing

How much was Mr Mueller personally paid 'for lending his name to the Investigation and Report'?

How much was the Trump Inauguration Fund? And, what happened to the millions left unspent?

A LOT less that Trump's golf trips have cost us.

Almost as much as trumps golf vacations with secret service costs

If that’s true The probe recovered 42 million from Mannafort looks like 10 million in profit 😃🎉🎉

Well Trump should NOT LIE!!!!!

I think Manafort, Cohen, and Flynn helped pay their way

And how much has trump's golfing excursions cost the tax payers?

...or in Trump's preferred currency, 228.6 high end prostitutes.

Benefits? It was a part time job for these people, they got benefits. Just like health care, your government has a very different health care system than we the people, so when they are telling you how health care should be run, demand they get off their plan and come join us.

And Manafort alone had to pay the gov. $36 mil. I think we’re ahead here, folks.

What is the cost to protect Democracy? $32m seems cheap?

we spend BILLIONS on our elections, from political donations/spending to the administration of the election itself without even factoring in the profit from this investigation, $32m is 0.5% of election spending, a tiny price to pay to improve confidence in our elections

Didn't they get $40+ mil just from Paul Manafort?

And how much did they recover n fines and penalties. I seem to recall it more than paid for itself

How much profit was made for Manafort, etc fines and forfeitures.

Disinformation

I'm starting to think we should be able to invest in these investigations against Trump and his cronies. They should turn a tidy profit.

How many Trump golf rounds does this amount to?

It was actually profitable. White collar crime prosecution in this case was WORTH IT.

And I think we got 40m from Manafort alone! Well done Mueller!!

And worth every penny

How much has golf cost us?

Like a few rounds of golf.

How much did it cost when Michelle Obama rented the whole floor of a hotel for her glam squad for couple. Weeks

A drop in the bucket compared to the price we are paying as a nation. Democracy in crisis.

And it brought in $42 million in seized assets, making it Trump's very first profit making venture.

Turned a profit just on Manafort divested of 40 million plus

Waste of money Dems should have to pay it back to the American people

A bargain, when you consider that amount of money is spent on 16 weekend trips to Mar a Lago.

Well worth it

You forgot to mention 42 million in seizures that offset the 32 million in cost..Which put 10 million plus in the USA treasury

Worth every penny!!!

How much of this cost can we bill back directly to Rep Adam Schiff?

Recoup your losses by criminal forfeiture, not like these guys weren’t getting rich working against the country

Tobias Harris is going to make 33 million this season

Politico should not post headlines like this. If you read the article you would see Mueller made money. But most magats only read the headline. Bad on Politico.

Sue DemocRATs and give us back that money!

Less than taxpayers pay for trump to golf at mar a lago

A drop in the bucket

Worth every penny

TheDemocrats Seems fair price to pay for hate and vengeance NOT

Trumps golf outings are now at 106 million? What I could do to help the needy with that money

Yeah, and how much did it bring in? I’m guessing more than it cost.

That’s ok trump has spent way more than that on useless unending golf trips to his properties that he’s making money from!!

The IDIOTS that requested the INVESTIGATION, should be FORCED to PAY for it! ALL PARTIES involved, knew that it was comprised for 1 reason! The DEMS were trying to FIND EVIDENCE Of ANY CRIME, to Get Rid of Our DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT! Now THEY can pay the BILL

Russia investigation: $32M Trump’s golf outings: $160M Eventually seeing Trump indicted: Priceless

Democrat Party should reimburse the American People..everyone they lied too

Worth every penny and a drop in the bucket compared to what Trump has spent on golf.

Trump’s golf vacations cost about $75.0M MORE, almost $110.0 at last count.

Well that's nothing compared to what taxpayers have paid for POTUS & the TrumpCrimeFamily to travel every weekend.

All of it was paid for by the crooks that were arrested.

And netted how much from Paul Manafort? Do your job better.

Big whoop. Ken Starr’s Whitewater/Lewinsky jerkoff was over $70 mil.

So there was a $10 Million profit on the investigation after taking into account the Manafort forfeitures? Shouldn’t the headline say this?

And it brought in even more than that from seizing assets of Republican traitors like Don the Con ‘s campaign manager.

Mueller is still ahead

Clickbait. Should have included in your headline what you had in your story: Recovered same from manafort. A wash.

How much was spent on golfing?

Probably about the same amount US government spent shuttling DonTheRump to all his golf courses, renting space at Trump properties, and guarding the numerous Trump children sucking on the government teat.

Manafort alone forfeited $36 million, so it turned a tidy profit.

If the DOJ says that the Mueller report costs 32 million, are they taking into account the money made from Manaford, etc.? Realistically it was a lot less.

God forbid we spend money to find out real substantial information. Meanwhile... we fund his golf outings.

The trumps should of thought of that before they broke laws.

A round of golf for the Prez and his band of little followers?

Benghazi

They recovered more than that, so the probe made money. Do better politico

Well worth every penny. It wasn't 4 years and no results other than a lie about a bj, Benghazi $7mil in 2 years of Cong hearings.

Worth it.

Amazing the amount of sheep that still believe this Russia 🐂💩. Not one American prosecuted, 13 invisible Russians 😂, Hillaryous 😁😎.

How does that compare to end investigations into Benghazi?

maybe you should put in your headline what Mueller made back too! He actually paid that debt off, and made a profit! Trump followers will only read the headline. Shame on you! Now why don't you do how much trump has made off the taxpayers at his properties?

And millions more in media usage.

Now talk about how much the national debt has increased in two years...🙄

You mean the injustice department?

More than enough to be covered by all that tariff 💵 in our coffers.

How much has Trumps golf weekends cost so far? I heard its in the hundreds of millions by now.

Now do Trump gold trips and rallies at taxpayer costs?

Ok so since you recovered 40 M$...we can say it was free

So are they tying to put a price tag on upholding democracy?

Worth every-single-penny 🙂

Lies

From the article: 'And that also doesn’t count the nearly $42 million the government has taken into its coffers from Paul Manafort' So, it cost $0. Compare that to the $106M we've spent on Trump's golfing.

The Bill Clinton 'cum on a dress' investigation cost $70 million in 1990s dollars.

And so what?

How much does his golf trips cost 🤷🏼‍♂️

If it would have costed $320 million it would have still been worth it.

How much has Trump’s golf trips cost?

Ummm, it actually made money, when you factor in the assets that were seized from Manafort.

The Democrats are really really good at throwing taxpayer money down the drain.

That was one expensive Nothing Burger.

Or, less than 1/3rd the cost of the President’s golf rounds.

How much does his golf trips cost 🤷🏼‍♂️

Always government waste.

Clearly Mueller was taking advantage of those mental health benefits.

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