The Mueller investigation versus Golfing Vacations
CNN just reported that total cost of Mueller's investigation was $32 million, which includes some salaries of "borrowed" employees -- which would have been paid anyway. Without those salaries, the total was about $16 million.
That doesn't count any offsets from fines paid by Manafort or others. The D's and the R's disagree about whether the fines will pay for the full investigation or not. (And we still don't know whether Stone will be found guilty and owe his own fines.)
HOWEVER, we know that the US government has already paid over $105 million for DT's golf vacations. So that puts the costs of the Mueller investigation, somewhere between $0 and $32 million, into perspective.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/07/10/trumps-golf-trips-could-cost-taxpayers-over-340-million/#183ed4a828aa
So far Trump’s golf trips have cost at least $105 million
Trump’s trips to his golf courses are very expensive and much more than Obama’s since Trump’s have been more frequent and usually requires Air Force One and all the accompanying security arraignments.
From a combination of an analysis from the HuffPost, the GAO or General Accounting Office, Politico and the Washington Post using costs from both Obama and Trump golf trips the estimated cost of Trump’s visits so far come to a range of $105 to $108 million. When you extrapolate the $105 million estimate to eight years, assuming Trump is re-elected, the total cost is over $340 million.
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