Dem probes could ‘torture’ young Trump officials with crushing legal bills, subpoenaed conservative warns

A conservative group that was caught up in a federal inquiry into the 2020 election is cautioning that Democratic calls for investigations of President Donald Trump's allies could saddle junior staffers with ruinous legal costs and damaged reputations. Rachel Bovard, vice president of programs at the Conservative Partnership Institute, told Fox News Digital that special counsel Jack Smith's subpoenas forced her organization to pay millions of dollars to comply, even though it was never credibly accused of a crime.

Bovard argues that Smith's effort worked as a rehearsal. In her telling, he gathered wide-ranging information on groups across the right, and the Justice Department and FBI still hold it, available to a future Democratic administration. The institute was targeted by the Justice Department under President Joe Biden rather than by Congress, but she said she expects Democrats to borrow the same approach if they win control of Congress in the midterms. She also said the subpoenas exposed details such as the group's health coverage and benefits, which she considered irrelevant.

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