The former special counsel who brought two criminal cases against President Donald Trump received $140,000 in free legal services from a prominent Washington law firm last month.

Covington & Burling provided Jack Smith with the gift of pro-bono legal assistance, Politico first reported citing a disclosure he filed last month in connection with him leaving the Justice Department.

It’s unclear why Smith sought outside lawyers, but Trump had repeatedly ripped Smith and his team, vowing to fire them and strongly suggesting they should be criminally prosecuted.

“They ought to throw Deranged Jack Smith and his Thug Prosecutors in jail,” Trump wrote in a 2023 social media post after Smith filed a new indictment charging Trump with illegally hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and conspiring to obstruct a probe into their handling.