Mark Epstein, brother of the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, released a statement Saturday night, acting to shut down one of the most explosive interpretations circulating around newly released Epstein estate emails. defender He claims that the much-talked-about reference to “Baba” in a conversation he had with his brother Jeffrey in 2018 had nothing to do with the former president. bill clinton.
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The conversation in question is part of a March 2018 exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Mark Epstein that was made public this week under subpoena from the House Oversight Committee. In the exchange, Mark asked Jeffrey, who wrote that he was with Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon, to “ask if Putin has any pictures of Trump blowing his hair.” Mr. Clinton was known by the nickname “Bubba,” raising questions about who the Epsteins were referring to.
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Epstein said in a statement that the exchange was completely misunderstood. “These statements were simply part of a humorous private exchange between the two brothers and were in no way intended for public release or to be construed as serious statements,” he wrote. He added, “For the avoidance of doubt, references to ‘Baba’ in this letter are in no way a reference to former President Bill Clinton.”
Mark Epstein’s spokesperson Ali Clark said: defender In an email, Baba said he was a “private person who is not a public figure.”
Mark Epstein warned that attempts to graft political meaning onto the nickname “misrepresent both the purpose and tone of the original communication.” The spokesperson added that “misinterpretations of honorifics and nicknames in email communications” were distracting from “serious questions that remain unanswered.”
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But the broader email release goes far beyond a joke between brothers.
Other messages currently released paint a darker, more politically dangerous picture. Jeffrey Epstein claimed in a 2019 email to author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls because he asked Ghislaine to stop.” Another email sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011 alleges that President Trump spent hours with one of his sex trafficking victims at Epstein’s home.
outside California Congressman Robert Garcia, Ranking Democratic Party He spoke before the House Oversight Committee. defender On Friday, he accused the Justice Department of obstructing the committee’s work, saying the documents raise “serious new questions” about the relationship between Trump and Epstein. “There is a massive cover-up going on right now in the White House and the Department of Justice over the files,” Garcia said, adding that the former president is “obviously panicking.”
White House Press Secretary Abigail Jackson said: defender “These emails literally prove nothing.”
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Trump’s own actions reinforced that impression. On Friday night, he launched a vitriolic Truth Social attack laced with anti-transgender rhetoric and attacked him after one of his staunchest allies, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, withdrew her support after she joined a bipartisan effort to force a House vote to force the Justice Department to release all of the unclassified Epstein files.
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