The No. 2 official in the Justice Department told ABC News in an interview Friday that there has been "no effort" to redact President Donald Trump's name from the release of files stemming from federal investigations into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Extensive redactions and the limited number of documents released related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will prove politically damaging to U.S. President Donald Trump, an analyst told Reuters on Saturday (December 20),

The Justice Department released additional documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case. At the same time, at least 15 newly released Epstein files disappeared from the Justice Department’s website.

The images deleted on Saturday without explanation included a document showing one of Epstein’s desks in which two photographs of Trump were visible. “This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release,

A photo in the latest batch of Justice Department files related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein showed a table drawer with photos of Trump inside. Now the file is gone.

Late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is seen in this image from the U.S. Justice Department’s file of Epstein, released by the House Oversight Committee Democrats Washington, D.C.

US lawmakers who pushed for the documents to be made public have criticised the initial release as incomplete.

The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people,