It’s an unprecedented sum in modern politics, particularly for a lame-duck president who is barred from running again.

The purge of the transcripts of Trump’s speeches and interactions with the media came just days after HuffPost revealed how few they had been posting.

The probe marks an escalation in U.S. government scrutiny of media watchdog groups who Elon Musk has accused of colluding to get advertisers to boycott his social media site.

“There are certain elected officials who appear to have a certain orange hue about them," one Democrat scoffed at a tanning provision later stripped from the bill.