Fact Check: Epstein Brother’s 2018 Email Mentions Trump and “Bubba” — No Clear Link to Clinton

What this is about

A 2018 email exchange from Mark Epstein (Jeffrey Epstein’s brother) appears in a large set of messages the House GOP Oversight Committee posted in November 2025. One image of the thread was shared online on Nov. 13, 2025, by the @CalltoActivism account and includes a line asking whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had a photo of Donald Trump “blowing Bubba.”

What the record shows

The released thread: The image is part of a repository of roughly 23,000 email images the committee made public. The message in question contains references such as "DONNI TEE," "your boy Donnie," and "Trump," but the name "Clinton" does not appear in the thread.

🚨WTF: In one of the leaked emails, Mark Epstein suggests asking Steve Bannon if Putin has "the photo of Trump blowing Bubba," to which Epstein replied, "and I thought— I had tsuris," (Yiddish for "troubles").

How to verify the image yourself

The committee published the messages as image files in a public archive. To view the message image referenced here, start at the House Oversight Committee press release and follow links to the committee’s Google Drive or Dropbox archive. From there: open the Images index, go to subfolder 011, and open the file named HOUSE.OVERSIGHT.030719.jpg. The email thread appears in that image file.

Context and limits of this fact check

This report confirms that the wording described above appears in the committee’s released image and that the online post accurately reproduced that language. It does not conclude whether the exchange was meant as a joke or was serious, nor does it assert that the term "Bubba" refers to former President Bill Clinton. The thread contains no explicit mention of "Clinton," so any claim equating "Bubba" with Bill Clinton is not established by this image alone.

Bottom line

The email image in the House Oversight Committee archive does include a reference to Trump and the phrase "blowing Bubba." The thread mentions "DONNI TEE," "your boy Donnie," and "Trump" but does not include the name "Clinton." The identity of "Bubba" and the intent behind the exchange remain unproven by this document.