Former President Bill Clinton mingles with people after the 30th Remembrance Ceremony for the Oklahoma City bombing, Saturday, April 19, 2025, inside First Church.

WASHINGTON – Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, sought to dispel a rumor about former President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump that has spread online in recent days.

The rumor began to percolate online after an email Mark Epstein sent to his brother was released Nov. 12 by the House Oversight Committee, along with a trove of 20,000 other messages related to Jeffrey Epstein.

In the 2018 exchange, Mark Epstein told his brother to ask Steve Bannon, then a close advisor to Trump, whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had "photos of Trump blowing Bubba."

Questions began to spread about whether "Bubba" was a reference to Clinton, who is known by the nickname.

In a Nov. 17 interview on NewsNation, Mark Epstein denied the connection.

"Let me stop you here, I’m not discussing that email. This is a private email between Jeffrey and myself, two brothers talking. It’s nobody’s business what we wrote," he told anchor Chris Cuomo.

"The only thing I responded to, because people got crazy with the bubba reference. They tried to pin it on Clinton, so I made a public statement that it was not any reference to Bill Clinton. I like Bill Clinton," he continued. "I was sorry for him that he had to go through that. But the email had nothing to do with Clinton and that’s my last word on that email."

USA TODAY reached out to Clinton’s representatives but did not immediately hear back.

Karissa Waddick, a reporter on USA TODAY's Nation Desk, can be reached at kwaddick@usatoday.com

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