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Mark Epstein, the brother of Jeffrey Epstein, once again denied that his 2018 email referencing photos of “Trump blowing Bubba” had anything to do with former President Bill Clinton
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In a phone interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo, Mark said “people got crazy” about the email exchange, one of thousands released by the House Oversight Committee last week
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“I like Bill Clinton and I’m sorry for him that he has to go through that,” Mark said
The brother of Jeffrey Epstein said he is sorry people have assumed “Bubba” was a reference to former President Bill Clinton in emails between him and the late convicted sex offender.
Mark Epstein spoke with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo in a phone interview on Tuesday, Nov. 18, where he told Cuomo that an email about “Trump blowing Bubba” was not a reference to Clinton, 79. He did not clarify who “Bubba” was referring to.
“The only thing I responded to, because people got crazy, was the Bubba reference and they tried to pin it on Clinton,” Mark said.
He continued, “I made a public statement that it was not any reference to Bill Clinton, I like Bill Clinton and I’m sorry for him that he has to go through that,” before reiterating, “But the email had nothing to do with Clinton, and that’s my last word on that email.”
The email was one of many released last week by the House Oversight Committee, which shared thousands of documents from Jeffrey’s estate, in which Trump, 79, was mentioned multiple times.
In an exchange from 2018, Mark told his brother to ask Steve Bannon if “Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba,” later adding, “You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of the movie Get Hard.”
“Bubba” is a nickname for Clinton, but Mark previously denied to The Advocate that he was talking about the former president.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the reference to ‘Bubba’ in this correspondence is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton,” he said in a statement, while also claiming that the exchange had been misinterpreted.
“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 told The Advocate.
His spokesperson Ali Clark added that “Bubba” is “a private individual who is not a public figure.”
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Bill Clinton in 2015 (L) and Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 (R)
Angel Ureña, Clinton’s spokesperson, has denied any wrongdoing on behalf of the former president. While Clinton was in office, Epstein — then working as a well-connected wealth manager — visited the White House many times, while Clinton traveled on Epstein’s private jet.
“These emails prove Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing. The rest is noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns, and who knows what else…” Ureña wrote in a Monday, Nov. 17, post on X.
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Trump has tried to shift the focus from himself and onto Democrats mentioned in the emails after they were released by the committee last week. In a Friday, Nov 14, post on Truth Social, the president said he was asking the Department of Justice to investigate Clinton.
“Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures,” he wrote, “I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him.”
Hours later, Bondi posted on X that she had assigned U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, of the Southern District of New York, to lead an investigation “with urgency and integrity.”
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