Overview
- House Oversight released roughly 23,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate this week, triggering competing disclosures by Democrats and Republicans.
- A March 2018 exchange in the files shows Mark Epstein asking whether Vladimir Putin had “photos of Trump blowing Bubba,” a line that quickly went viral.
- Mark Epstein now says the “Bubba” reference was not Bill Clinton and, through a spokesperson, describes Bubba as a private individual whose identity remains undisclosed.
- Other emails include unverified claims from Jeffrey Epstein that President Trump “knew about the girls” and that a redacted victim “spent hours” with him at Epstein’s home.
- The White House says the emails prove nothing, while Trump calls the matter a hoax and says he has directed DOJ and the FBI to scrutinize Epstein’s ties to other figures as a House vote on broader unsealing approaches.