(Washington) Calls for transparency rose Wednesday in the United States after several American media revealed that the government had removed documents mentioning Donald Trump from the Epstein file, including some relating to accusations of sexual assault on a minor.
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“This is the largest government cover-up in modern history,” the Democratic representatives of the powerful oversight committee in the House of Representatives accused on Thursday.
“We demand answers,” they added on X.
NPR public radio reported Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ), led by a loyalist of the Republican president, had prevented the publication of documents related to accusations against Donald Trump according to which he sexually assaulted a minor.
According to NPR, several documents discussing accusations against Jeffrey Epstein and which mention Donald Trump were also removed from the public database relating to the sex criminal who died in prison in 2019 before a trial.
THE New York Times then reported on Wednesday that among the unpublished documents are notes from the federal police (FBI) summarizing interrogations carried out in connection with the accusations of a woman in 2019. She had come forward after the arrest of the New York financier and had claimed to have been sexually assaulted a few decades earlier, when she was a minor, by Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.
The New York daily claims that of the four interrogations carried out, only one summary – discussing the accusations against Jeffrey Epstein – was made public.
The elected Democrats of the supervisory commission claimed to have investigated in recent weeks the way in which the FBI handled the accusations made in 2019, and said they “can confirm that the Department of Justice appears to have illegally withheld FBI interrogations” with the alleged victim.
“Cushing out direct evidence of potential assault by the President of the United States is the gravest possible crime in this White House cover-up,” they charged on X.
Asked by AFP, the Department of Justice redirected its response to Democratic elected officials on
“NOTHING has been deleted,” maintains the ministry, asserting that only documents that are duplicates, or fall under a legal publication ban, or are part of an ongoing federal investigation have not been published.
The US Department of Justice published on January 30 “more than three million pages” partly redacted from the Epstein file, affirming that the Trump administration had thus fulfilled its obligation, imposed by a law adopted in November by Congress, to shed light on this politically explosive file.
But several victims of Jeffrey Epstein are outraged that numerous documents have been redacted, and that no legal action has been taken against the financier’s alleged accomplices.
Once close to Jeffrey Epstein with whom he moved in the same circles, Donald Trump has always denied having any knowledge of his criminal behavior and claims to have broken up with him well before his legal troubles.
