Calls for transparency mounted Wednesday in the United States after several media outlets revealed that the government had removed documents from the Epstein case mentioning Donald Trump, including some relating to accusations of sexual assault on a minor.

"This is the greatest government cover-up in modern history," Democratic lawmakers on the powerful House oversight committee charged on Wednesday.

"We demand answers," they added on X.

Public radio NPR reported on Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ), headed by a loyalist of the Republican president, had blocked the release of documents related to accusations against Donald Trump that he sexually assaulted a minor.

According to NPR, several documents alleging accusations against Jeffrey Epstein and mentioning Donald Trump have also been removed from the public database relating to the sex offender 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The New York Times then reported on Wednesday that among the unpublished documents are notes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) summarizing interrogations conducted in connection with a woman's accusations in 2019. She came forward after the arrest of the New York financier and claimed that she had been sexually assaulted 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 -- referring to the accusations against Jeffrey Epstein -- has been made public.

Democratic members of the oversight committee said they had been investigating in recent weeks how the FBI handled the allegations made in 2019, and said they "can confirm that the Justice Department appears to have unlawfully withheld FBI interviews" with the alleged victim.

"Suppressing direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious crime possible in this White House cover-up operation," they charged on X.

When contacted by AFP, the Department of Justice redirected to its response to Democratic lawmakers on X. In this message, the DOJ urges them to "stop misleading the general public by manufacturing outrage from their radical anti-Trump base."

"NOTHING has been deleted," the ministry maintains, asserting that only duplicate documents, or documents falling under a legal ban on publication, or documents that are part of an ongoing federal investigation, were not released.

The US Department of Justice released on January 30 "more than three million pages" of the Epstein dossier, some of which were redacted, stating that the Trump administration had thus fulfilled its obligation, imposed by a law passed in November by Congress, to shed full light on this politically explosive case.

But several of Jeffrey Epstein's victims are outraged that many 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 with him well before his legal troubles.