Jeffrey Epstein's brother stuns with response to email about Trump sex act with 'Bubba'

Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, issued a statement Saturday addressing the uproar sparked by the release of a 2018 email exchange in which he appeared to suggest that President Donald Trump had engaged in sexual acts with someone identified only as “Bubba,” according to a Business Insider reporter.

Sent in March of 2018, the email in question saw Mark Epstein email his brother Jeffrey Epstein to inquire about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had “the photos of Trump ----ing Bubba,” using a slang word for oral sex. It was released last Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee, which dropped 20,000 pages of documents it had subpoenaed from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.

An online frenzy erupted over the email, with many speculating that “Bubba” could have been a reference to former President Bill Clinton, with “Bubba” being his nickname. But on Saturday evening, Epstein quashed that theory in a statement, according to Jacob Shamsian, legal correspondent for Business Insider.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the reference to ‘Bubba’ in this correspondence is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton,” Mark Epstein said in an apparent statement, shared by Shamsian on social media late Saturday.

“Any attempt to conflate that reference with President Clinton, or to read sweeping implications onto 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.”

Mark Epstein went on to dismiss his 2018 comments as “simply part of a humorous private exchange between two brothers” that was “never meant for public release,” though ultimately did not clarify who “Bubba” referred to.

Mark Epstein is among the voices who called into question the circumstances surrounding his brother’s death, who supposedly died by suicide in 2019 in prison while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Mark Epstein had hired a forensic pathologist to conduct an independent autopsy on his late brother, the findings of which concluded that his death was more consistent with homicide than suicide.