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Did Jeffrey Epstein's brother raise a question in a real email about if Russian President Vladimir Putin had photos of Donald Trump "blowing Bubba"? Yes, that's true: The 2018 email thread, one of the 23,000 emails released by the House GOP Oversight Committee in November 2025, referenced "DONNI TEE," "your boy Donnie," as well as "Trump." Mark Epstein sent a statement to Lead Stories saying it was a "humorous private exchange between two brothers" and that the "Bubba" reference was not about Bill Clinton.
The email was shared in a post (archived here) by the @CalltoActivism on November 13, 2025, with a caption that read:
🚨WTF: In one of the leaked emails, Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother suggests to ask Steve Bannon if Putin has "the photo of Trump blowing Bubba," to which Epstein replied, "and I thought- I had tsuris," which is Yiddish for troubles.
Who is Bubba?
🚨WTF: In one of the leaked emails, Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother suggests to ask Steve Bannon if Putin has "the photo of Trump blowing Bubba," to which Epstein replied, "and I thought- I had tsuris," which is Yiddish for troubles.
-- CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) November 14, 2025
Who is Bubba? pic.twitter.com/xKDCeNGaH2
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com)
The email thread can be found on a Google Drive file and a DropBox file created by the congressional committee, although it requires some scrolling down a page of thousands of image links. You can start at the House Oversight committee press release (archived here).
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of oversight.house.gov)
Click either the Google Drive link or the DropBox link. This will take you this folder (archived here):
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google Drive)
Click on the Images link to go to the subfolder index (archived here):
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google Drive)
Click on subfolder 011 to get to this page:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google Drive)
Scroll to HOUSE.OVERSIGHT.030719.jpg.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google Drive)
Click on HOUSE.OVERSIGHT.030719.jpg and this email thread will open:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google Drive)
There was widespread speculation on social media that the "Bubba" reference was about former President Bill Clinton, who has sometimes been referred to as "Bubba" by critics. Mark Epstein sent a statement to Lead Stories on November 15. 2025, that he said was "to clarify a point that has been misinterpreted in public discussion." It read:
Recently, emails from 2018 between my brother and me were made public. 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.
For the avoidance of doubt, the reference to 'Bubba' in this correspondence is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton.
Any attempt to conflate that reference with President Clinton, or to read sweeping implications into them, misrepresents both the purpose and the tone of the original correspondence. I want to be absolutely clear on this point so that the public record is not distorted and so that speculation does not unfairly implicate people who are not actually being referenced in those communications.
Updates:
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2025-11-16T04:58:54Z 2025-11-16T04:58:54Z Adding Mark Epstein statement that Bubba was not Bill Clinton and it was a joke. Revised headline.
