Overview
- The House Oversight Committee’s release of roughly 20,000 estate documents included a March 2018 email where Mark Epstein asked if Putin had “photos of Trump blowing Bubba,” which he now calls a joking private exchange.
- Mark Epstein stated the nickname does not refer to Bill Clinton, and his spokesperson said “Bubba” is a private, non‑public individual whose identity remains undisclosed.
- Fact‑checkers knocked down alternate viral theories, including a claim that “Bubba” was Ghislaine Maxwell’s horse, which Mark Epstein’s spokesperson directly rejected.
- Other emails in the cache reference President Donald Trump, including a 2019 note claiming he “knew about the girls” and a 2011 message alleging he spent hours with a woman later identified as a victim, assertions the White House says “prove literally nothing.”
- The document release has intensified bipartisan efforts to force broader DOJ disclosures, with reported House votes in the works and a review announced by Attorney General Pam Bondi involving a Manhattan federal prosecutor.