WASHINGTON Former President Donald Trump could pay $156,000 in legal expenses for every person arrested thus far in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol using the $105 million he has collected by spreading the same lies he used to incite the attack, but so far has not helped a single one of the nearly 700 rioters.

Many people who went there that day are disappointed by his lack of support, said one defense lawyer on the condition of anonymity so as not to hurt his Jan. 6 clients case. If President Trump was ever going to step up and step in, the time to do it is right now.

Albert Watkins, the lawyer for the self-described QAnon Shaman who last week was sentenced to three and half years in federal prison for his role in the attack, was far more blunt speaking to reporters afterward about what Trump should do.

Id tell him, You know what? Youve got a few fucking things to do. Including clearing this fucking mess up and taking care of a lot of the jackasses that you fucked up because of January 6, he said.

In all, 670 of Trumps Jan. 6 mob face permanent criminal records and five- and six-figure legal bills for believing Trumps lies that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from him, and acting on his requests that they do something about it.

Cynthia Hughes, who is collecting money to help Jan. 6 defendants her Patriot Freedom Project web site offers visitors the opportunity to make a 1/6 Thanksgiving Pledge appeared on Trump adviser Steve Bannons podcast and urged Trump to act.

Theyre disappointed they havent heard from him. Theyre disappointed he hasnt spoken out, she said on Nov. 13. President Trump, I need to hear from you. I need to hear from you immediately, because we need your help, and we need to know that youre behind us. That you support these people that support you.

Trump, though, appears to have done nothing to support his followers, outside of the occasional public statement claiming they are being persecuted by his successors administration.

In a March 25 Fox News appearance, he claimed: Theyre persecuting a lot of those people. And in a Sept. 16 statement, he wrote: Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the January 6th protest concerning the Rigged Presidential Election.

Federal Election Commission records, meanwhile, show that through the first half of this year, Trump had not paid for anyones legal costs related to Jan. 6, other than possibly his own. Through June 30, Trumps Save America political committee had paid $206,480 to Elections, LLC , the firm co-founded by Justin Clark, one of the lawyers representing Trump in its dealings with the House Jan. 6 committee.

How much of that money precisely went toward his attempts to keep secret his involvement in that days attack cannot be determined through public records, and neither Trumps office nor Clark responded to HuffPost queries.

In all, 140 police officers were injured by Trumps mob, with five officers dying over a period of weeks in addition to four Trump supporters who died that day.

But Trump, both during his impeachment for inciting the attack as well as in comments afterwards, has refused to take any responsibility for what happened even though he himself invited his followers to descend on the Capitol on that particular date and at his rally urged them to march on the Capitol to fight like hell to persuade then-Vice President Mike Pence to install Trump into a second term.