WH addresses Epstein email claiming Trump has inappropriate photo: ‘Prove literally nothing'
WASHINGTON, DC: White House Spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement on Sunday, November 16, that the newly released Epstein emails “prove literally nothing.”
In one email included in the newly released files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein’s brother Mark appeared to suggest there was an inappropriate photo of President Donald Trump with a person named “Bubba."
White House Spokesperson calls newly released emails a 'distraction'
Jackson said in a statement to HuffPost, "Democrats and the mainstream media are desperately trying to use this hoax as a distraction to talk about anything other than the President’s many wins, including the Democrats getting utterly defeated by President Trump in the shutdown fight.”
“We won’t be distracted, and the entire Administration will continue fulfilling the promises the President was elected on, including cutting the Biden-era price hikes,” she added.
Last week, the House Oversight Committee released several documents related to the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
The email in question, dated March 2018, was written by Mark Epstein, who emailed Jeffrey Epstein saying, “Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.”
During the 1992 presidential election, former President Bill Clinton gained the nickname “Bubba” for his folksy manner, which led many social media users to assume Clinton was the “Bubba” referenced in the email.
Mark Epstein later clarified in statements to multiple outlets that the “Bubba” mentioned was not Clinton, and his representative told The Advocate that the name referred to “a private individual who is not a public figure.
In other emails released last week, Jeffrey Epstein appeared to suggest that Donald Trump knew about his criminal activity. In one message, Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls.”
Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had been friends for years before a falling out in 2004 involving a real estate dispute.
Donald Trump hints Epstein files changed after 2024 election
President Trump publicly endorsed a conspiracy theory circulating among his supporters that records related to Jeffrey Epstein were altered or expanded after the 2024 presidential election.
The President suggested that individuals who controlled the files could have inserted fake or misleading material and argued that if the documents contained anything damaging, it would already have been used against him.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on November 14, Trump fueled the idea of new conspiracies as Congress prepared for a high-stakes vote to force the full release of all Epstein-related records.
“If they had anything, they would have used it before the election, okay? I can’t tell you what they put in since the [2024] election,” he said, implying that federal officials could have added new information after his return to the White House.
When asked why his team discouraged Reps. Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace from pushing for a full release of the files, Trump dismissed the political tension, saying, “Because we think it’s bad to talk about it, because it gets away from the subject of how well the Republicans are doing.”
His remarks came as lawmakers, including several Republicans, began breaking with him and Speaker Mike Johnson by supporting a bill requiring the Department of Justice to release all Epstein files.
