An email in the Jeffrey Epstein files that references U.S. President Donald Trump "blowing Bubba" has attracted scrutiny on social media.
On Wednesday, U.S. lawmakers released more than 20,000 pages of documents connected to Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.
Some of the documents mentioned Trump, including one from Epstein's brother, Mark, which references photos of Trump "blowing Bubba." "Bubba" is a nickname of former president Bill Clinton, but Mark Epstein told Newsweek the individual was not Clinton. He did not provide any additional details about the identity of “Bubba” or the meaning of the emails.
Newsweek reached out to the White House by email to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.
Files related to Epstein continue to cause problems for the Trump administration, as bipartisan groups have called for greater transparency in the case and the further publication of documents and evidence in the government's possession.
Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and has said their friendship ended in the early 2000s. But the recent release of thousands of documents has brought fresh scrutiny to the president's relationship with Epstein.
In an email sent in March 2018, Mark Epstein told Jeffrey Epstein to ask Steve Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist, if Russian President Vladimir Putin has "the photos of Trump blowing Bubba."
“You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of the movie Get Hard,” Mark Epstein wrote.
Newsweek also reached out to Bannon and the Kremlin by email to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.
Posts on social media about the email have since gone viral, with people questioning what the email means.
One user wrote: "Who is Bubba, and why did Trump blow him?"
Call to Activism, an account with over 1.1 million followers, wrote: "WTF: In one of the leaked emails, Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother suggests to ask Steve Bannon if Putin has 'the photo of Trump blowing Bubba,' to which Epstein replied, 'and I thought- I had tsuris,' which is Yiddish for troubles."
Trump is also referenced in other documents, including in emails between Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell in which Epstein called Trump "that dog that hasn't barked." In an email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein said Trump "knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop."
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee later released additional emails said to show Epstein's correspondence with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 233 pts · 277d
d3lta19@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 276d
You win the internet today, friend
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 276d
We all need at least a little light in dark times.
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world · 158 pts · 277d
“So uhhh, got any comment on the dick sucking thing?”
Kenny2999@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 277d
"Its big and its beautiful, Bill"
ech@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 276d
That'll be a meme in less than 24 hours.
Inb4 "There are two people in this photo" gets updated to 3.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 277d
Emailing the Kremlin is also fucking hilarious.
half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 276d
Right? That part took me out.
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 277d
elvith@feddit.org · 10 pts · 277d
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй?
elvith@feddit.org · 27 pts · 277d
🍆💦 ^✊^👁️👄👁️^👌^
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 277d
“U up?”
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 141 pts · 277d
I swear to fucking god if the pedophelia gets him in less trouble than a consensual act between two grown men I'm gonna scream.
Though the idea of him blowing a naked Bill Clinton hammering on his six sax is at least funny.
bigfondue@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 276d
tal@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 277d
I can but imagine that this will be a concept explored in generative AI images in short order.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 277d
Fuck, I'd go out and make it if I wasn't trying to avoid imagining that...
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 276d
If the act happened, I honestly think it might
For fascists power is king, and exploiting someone innocent and defenceless does not show you as less powerful. To a twisted mind, it might actually be a sign of power and authority, as fucked up as that is
Fascism has never been about logic, consistency, empathy, or anything of that sort. All that matters is power. And not only that, but perceived power. The strongman facade is more important than anything else, and being heartless and authoritarian are prime strongman traits
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 276d
Why do you assume he was naked. I kind was imagining a frat party scenario where Epstein and a bunch of other are watching and cheering and everyone is blackout drunk
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 274d
Because for the sax image, naked is funnier.
nomorebillboards@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
It doesn't matter what he does because they'll say anything bad is fake
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 104 pts · 277d
Not gonna lie. If that turns out to be true, I did not expect that at all.
Raping a child on video would have not have been as damaging to his reputation in the eyes of his voter base than that. Especially if Bubba is a black man.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 277d
"Bubba" was a pretty common nickname for Clinton while he was in office because of his accent.
theredknight@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 276d
If you read the other emails with Bubba in them it's Clinton. They go on and on about Bubba butter
Sludge@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 277d
Ain't nothing illegal about getting your dick sucked by an adult black man named bubba. This, on the other hand - something about this case feels like it's probably illegal.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 277d
The list of illegal things Trump did is long enough. What we need is things that will break the hold his cult has over the country.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 276d
His fanbase doesn't care about illegal things he's doing, however, they might actually care about him being "subservient" and "demeaning" himself to another man like this
Of course, I need not mention the layers upon layers of problems with this sort of thinking, but I feel like the people who love trump definitively fall prey to it
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 276d
Yeah this is a double edged sword of a situation. His followers lose respect for Trump while being even more homophobic.
Do we take the good with the bad for the overall good, or are we making a deal with the devil?
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 276d
We don't have to take anything. There is no deal. There is no action. Just respond to the situation at hand. We don't control what they think, otherwise they wouldn't like trump in the first place
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 277d
And just like that, MAGAts are suddenly okay with men giving blowjobs
Lol!!!
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 10 pts · 276d
Real men wear diapers and give blowjobs.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 276d
Nick Fuentes already says all sex is gay, so it actually might not matter to the goypers.
m4xie@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 275d
Their issue is that blow jobs aren't antisemitic enough
redlemace@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 277d
Puting having such pictures would explain quite a lot .....
Joeffect@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 277d
This isn't the first time pictures of trump and putin having them have come up it might be the same pictures... but i remember this from maybe his first term?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 34 pts · 277d
Steele dossier. While you might read that it's been "discredited," the reality is that many of the things in there turned out to be completely true.
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 277d
The "pee tapes"
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 277d
Pretty sure the Steele dossier was talking about P tapes as in pedo
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 277d
Making things up doesn't help anybody. If you remembered the source of the allegation you could have just gone and checked.
yucandu@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 277d
Are pictures still worth anything when people can just dismiss them as AI/photoshop?
JustKeepStretching@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 277d
When they can be proven to have been taken decades before AI image creation existed, yes obviously
yucandu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
How can they be proven?
patatas@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 276d
maybe someone made a NFT of it
/s
Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 275d
Who has the negatives?
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 276d
Pictures can easily be denied since generative AI became a thing.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 63 pts · 277d
So if it's really not Clinton, and presumably it's not some random guy named Bubba that the wealthy elite picked up on the side of the road and let join in their weird little games... Bubba is also a nickname a lot of people (myself included) call their brothers growing up.
I'm pretty sure it's also not my Bubba, but Mark Epstein's Bubba? That would actually fit with the well known anything goes party vibes. It would also make Epstein saying that Trump has zero good qualities a very sick burn that haunts from beyond the grave.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 277d
So many Bubba's to choose from.
I'm going to choose to believe that if it's not Clinton, it's Bubba the love sponge.
tal@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 277d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_(fish)
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 276d
So you're saying Trump had sexual relations with a gender-fluid fish? Yeah, that might startle his cult.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 277d
Doesn't have to be a person named "Bubba". Some dudes give their junk nicknames.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 276d
Wasn't mine. Mine's called Crispin.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 275d
Mine's Francois Meatyrod.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 275d
Lives next door to Général Charles de Balls.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 274d
Exactement.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 277d
Bubba is a pretty common name for dogs in these parts....
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 276d
And my orange cat from NC. He was a hillbilly.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 277d
Bubba the mushroom
gnutrino@programming.dev · 10 pts · 276d
I don't think at this point it matters who Bubba actually is/was (I'd guess we never find out but I suppose you never know), the memes that Trump blew Clinton are too strong to be overridden by mere fact.
RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 4 pts · 277d
Bubba Trump Shrimp.
Joeffect@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 277d
What is trump is Bubba and he's the one getting blown... probably by someone who he shouldn't be anywhere close to being around...
snooggums@piefed.world · 19 pts · 277d
It is clearly worded as Trump doing the blowing of Bubba.
nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 56 pts · 276d
I am still at a loss of words over the fact that the US has a rapist pedophile as president and a good portion of the population is ok with that. A rapist pedophile that is doing the opposite of Robin Hood, stealing from the poor and giving it to his millionaires/billionaires "friends".
I just don't see how society can improve if humans are so fucking stupid and evil. This whole thing literally removed my faith in humanity. I was always a bit of a misanthrope but after this whole Trump and MAGA and Russia thing, my misanthropy is at an all time high.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 275d
You are not alone.
Perhaps there’s hope in that.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 275d
Our instinct to gather behind leadership is essential to our survival and ability to organize in vast numbers. The things we do as individuals that are not rational or helpful from our individual point of view can still serve our species. Everyone has these same drives, but in ~30% of the population they are especially strong.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 277d
Probably wasn't Clinton, but just like Vance and couches, I'm running with it anyway!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 276d
Mark Epstein wants to stay alive.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 276d
Maybe, but "Bubba" isn't very compelling evidence.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 277d
'not Clinton' does not change the fact that Trump blew SOMEONE!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 275d
It sounded like a joke anyway, implying there's no limit to how low Trump might go. He could have said "the seven dwarfs" instead of Bubba, though that would imply stamina that Trump was probably never capable of.
Reality_Suit@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 276d
His hatred of Hillary has been jealousy this whole time.
schema@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 276d
"Lock her up, so I can have him all to myself"
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 276d
"lock her up. LOCK HER UP. Lock her up. Cock her up. Cock him up. Cock him rough!"
"...What?"
"What?"
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 276d
Epstein did not kill himself.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 276d
it's so telling when they unnecessarily use this language instead of at least a neutral "who died imprisoned" or something
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 46 pts · 277d
Is Hillary the only one that hasn't sucked off Bill?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 276d
It's awkward.
gdog05@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 277d
There wasn't room, apparently.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 275d
Hard to suck him off while using a strap-on.
vateso5074@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 276d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 276d
Someone said that Roy Cohn wasn't gay, he just liked to sexually dominate young blonde men. Okaaaay...
It should be noted that Cohn's two most prominent proteges were Roger Stone and Trump, back when they were both young blonde men.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
Roy Cohn repeatedly insisted he wasn't gay. However he never denied exclusive attraction to men. His denials of homosexuality came with him asserting that homosexuals are weak victims of society, something he refused to be (which is to a certain degree understandable for a gay jew in the 50s). Hell him having a kink for dominating blonde men in that context is bad but like I get it. Evil evil son of a bitch, but he only ever paid for the wrong reasons.
Also Joseph McCarthy was brunette and absolutely dominated by Cohn.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 275d
Cohn associated being gay with bottoming, and in his way of seeing the world, being a top wasn't gay. There's an old thread in Western culture (much of it tracing back at least as far as the Romans) that took that view of men having sex with each other. I grew up in a Latino neigborhood, and that was the prevalent view there, too: it's manly to pitch, but shameful and unmanly to catch.
I believe Thiel has similar views.
And yeah, leaving all that aside, Cohn was a twisted, evil skidmark.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 275d
Anecdotal but my ignorant ass has had conversations with my friends that "so god if I find out my son is gay I will love him but please for the love of God let him pitch."
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 274d
Exactly. There's a huge amount of historical misogyny encoded in that: a real man will fuck anyone and anything, but a man letting himself be fucked like a woman is shameful, because eww, women. It was only after I got out and saw more of the world that I realized what a weird and messed-up perspective that was. Incredible the bullshit that can be internalized when you're young and don't know any better.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 276d
I don't know if your right, but it's such a common nickname for people I would be hesitant to immediately attach it to Clinton.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 276d
Could be:
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 275d
"Bubba" is a nickname almost always used for a southerner. Cohn was a lot of things, but never that.
If Clyde Tolson had still been alive, though...
jimerson@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 276d
You know, the whole YMCA song he always used is starting to make more sense.
paperazzi@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 276d
And the jerking off two giraffes dance.
And fellating the microphone.
And the shape of his mouth in general.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 274d
Like an old cow's prolapsed anus? Not sure how that's relevant here.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 277d
Eurgh, the mental image. Is this some dastardly plan to make everyone demand they just put the Epstein files back in a drawer and forget about them?
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 277d
I have a sudden horrible feeling that "Bubba" was a dog.
Xella@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 277d
Trump sucked off a dog 🤣
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 274d
That's why dogs don't like him.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 277d
Oh. Oh no.
kikutwo@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 277d
Is this why he's so scared of trans?
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com · 26 pts · 277d
Is this why he destroyed the east wing? Did it leave a bad taste in his mouth?
Asafum@feddit.nl · 24 pts · 277d
Countdown to Republicans reversing this, arguing "Oh of course the oh so tolerant and LGBT loving liberals actually HATE gay people! They're attacking poor poor Trump over this when they claim to love and accept gay people! Typical hypocrisy from the tolerant left!"
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 276d
Somebody should ask him what this means
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 275d
It's right there in the post. Apparently Mark Epstein said it wasn't Clinton and didn't elaborate.
I get that dude probably fears for his life but come on. What a coward.
If we take this at face value, then other comments I've heard about Ghislaine Maxwell's horse being named Bubba make this so fucking hillarious.
Trump and a horse walk into a bar.
The bar tender says: "hey we don't serve horses here. Who brought this horse into the bar"
The bartender looks at the assembled patrons of the bar who shrug.
Donald Trump leaves the bar and the horse follows.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 275d
Oh I meant ask Trump not Epstein's brother. Asking Trump is way funnier.
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 276d
I did not have sexual relations with that Clinton.
catbum@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 277d
What if... What if Bubba is an animal? 💀
skooma_king@piefed.social · 16 pts · 277d
Ohhhh, so that’s why Trump is calling for the DOJ to investigate Epstein/Clinton ties. Always projection.
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 277d
He’s always been a cock sucker, why is this so surprising?
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 276d
I guess the notion that anyone would go near him voluntarily. That part never ceases to shock and disgust.
Curiousfur@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 276d
Anybody have that gif of trump jerking off the microphone on the campaign trail?
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 276d
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 276d
This is a work of art
Curiousfur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 276d
Danke
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 12 pts · 277d
President snowball
mkhopper@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
That just made the mental image 10x worse.
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 1 pts · 276d
Minnie-driver-give-us-a-kiss.gif
blattrules@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 277d
Damn, even him highlighting the area of the Clinton affair to people on White House tours is projection.
thericofactor@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 277d
This brother - Mark Epstein, is still alive right? He would know who 'Bubba' is.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 277d
From the article.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 276d
And he will deny it was Clinton to stay alive.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 277d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
Get Hard movie:
The plot thickens
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 275d
Makes sense now.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-arnold-palmer-latrobe-pennsylvania-rally/
Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 275d
Just like that old joke about blowing Chunks...
xorollo@leminal.space · 1 pts · 275d
someacnt@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 276d
So there is nothing that is particularly incriminating Trump? Ugh.