
Jefrey Epstein’s brother says the ‘Bubba’ mentioned in Trump oral sex email is not Bill Clinton
Christopher Wiggins
Sun, November 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM EST
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Donald Trump
The brother of late convicted pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein,
Mark Epstein, moved Saturday night to shut down one of the most explosive interpretations circulating around newly released Epstein estate emails, issuing a statement to
The Advocate insisting that
the now-viral “Bubba” reference in a 2018 exchange with his brother Jeffrey had nothing to do with former President
Bill Clinton.
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The conversation in question was part of a March 2018 back-and-forth between Jeffrey Epstein and Mark Epstein, released this week under subpoena by the House Oversight Committee. In the exchange, Mark asked Jeffrey, who had written that he was with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, to “ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.” Because Clinton was known by the nickname “Bubba,” questions arose about who the Epsteins were speaking of.
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In the statement, Epstein said the exchange was being misread entirely. “They were simply part of a humorous private exchange between two brothers and were never meant for public release or to be interpreted as serious remarks,” he wrote. He added, “For the avoidance of doubt, the reference to ‘Bubba’ in this correspondence is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton.”
Ali Clark, a spokesperson for Mark Epstein, told
The Advocate in an email that Bubba is “a private individual who is not a public figure."
Mark Epstein warned that attempts to graft political meaning onto a nickname “misrepresents both the purpose and the tone of the original correspondence.” A spokesperson added that “misinterpretations of formal language or nicknames in email correspondence” distract from “the serious questions that remain unanswered."
However, the broader email release extends far beyond fraternal joking.
Other messages now public paint a darker and more politically treacherous picture. In a 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Jeffrey Epstein claimed that Trump “knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” Another email, sent in 2011 to Ghislaine Maxwell, alleges Trump spent hours at Epstein’s house with one of his sex-trafficking victims.
Out
California Rep.
Robert Garcia, the ranking
Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told
The Advocate on Friday that the tranche of documents raises “serious new questions” about Trump’s ties to Epstein and accused the Justice Department of obstructing the committee’s work. “There’s a massive cover-up at the White House and the DOJ right now over the files,” Garcia said, adding that the former president “is clearly panicked.”
Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, told
The Advocate that, “These emails prove literally nothing.”