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Reverend Jesse Jackson sends plea to Biden to pardon his son the same day as Hunter reprieve By NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 09:44 AEDT, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 09:50 AEDT, 6 December 2024 e-mail 9 View comments The same day President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. asked the Democrat to extend the same courtesy to his own son. Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. spent 30 months in prison a decade ago after spending around $750,000 in campaign cash on more than 3,000 personal purchases including a Michael Jackson fedora, a Rolex watch and fur coats. In a two-page letter to Biden, obtained by Politico , the 83-year-old civil rights leader explained away his son's spending problem. 'While my son came to Congress with my "big" name, our family had no "big" financial statements for our years of civil and public service,' Jackson wrote. 'He had no foundation for living in two places with a family, and over 10 years, he spent funds he raised each year - not taxpayer funds - a total of $75 thousand dollars each year for certain personal and living expenses.' Jackson and his then-wife Sandi signed plea agreements, with Jackson pleading guilty of fraud, conspiracy, making false statements, mail fraud, wire fraud and criminal forfeiture. 'Like Hunter, federal investigations begin in one place and always conclude somewhere else,' the elder Jackson said. He asked Biden to give his son and former daughter-in-law a 'full and absolute pardon.' 'I implore you to consider his full freedom as opposed to his continued sentence in the form of "felonization,"' Jackson wrote. 'I hope that his pardon ... would provide for the expungement of his as well as Hunter's record,' the civil rights leader added. Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (left) spent 30 months in prison after spending $750,000 in campaign cash on more than 3,000 personal purchases. His father, prominent civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. (right) asked President Joe Biden to pardon his son Speaking to Politico, Jesse Jackson Jr. confirmed that he had filled out documents for formally request a pardon from Biden - after not doing so with Democratic President Barack Obama after he was released from prison in 2015. 'I did 30 months in prison. I did what the judge told me to do on behalf of the people. I honored it. I pled guilty. No jury had to find me guilty. So I owned my behavior,' the younger Jackson said. 'But the felonization doesn't end. My marriage ended. My house is near foreclosure. I'm having difficulty getting hired. It doesn't end,' he continued, adding that it's even harder for others to reenter society. 'It shouldn't be a life sentence.' In his letter, Jackson Sr. pushed that spending reform was needed, as maintaining two homes as a member of Congress - one in a home district and then a place to live in Washington - was cost-prohibitive for many American public servants. 'In addition to your pardon consideration for my son and his former wife, I pray that, some measure of relief and reform may result from this letter for the benefit of all citizens, and those elected citizens who go to Washington, D.C. to serve our country,' Jackson wrote. Jackson noted that his son made 'full financial restitution' - meaning now the home where his grandchildren reside in Washington, D.C. is near foreclosure. 'Whether from a position of established wealth or a position of less means, I pray that they find service to the American experiment, a joy and not a burden, as they live in two place, protect and educate their children, and care for their families, while they protect and care for the American family,' Jackson wrote. The elder Jackson ended the letter by referencing Hunter again. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s letter was addressed to President Joe Biden - pictured Wednesday during his trip to Angola - on the same day that Biden announced that he would be pardoning his son Hunter 'President Biden, even at this writing, I realize the burden you are carrying with your own son's future,' Jackson said. 'I will keep you in prayer as you weigh the balance of his life and the power of forgiveness.' Jackson Sr. has been living with Parkinson's Disease since 2015 and retired last year. At the time, Biden sent out a statement remarking on their 'decades of friendship and partnership.' 'Jill and I are grateful to Reverend Jackson for his lifetime of dedicated service and extend our appreciation to the entire Jackson family,' Biden said. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Biden would pardon Jackson Jr. Politico reported Wednesday that Biden's aides are discussing whether some of President-elect Donald Trump's politicial foes should get blanket pardons before the Democrat heads out the door on January 20. Among those named in the story were Sen.-elect Adam Schiff - who said he doesn't want a preemptive pardon - former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney and Dr. Anthony Fauci, who's been criticized by Trump's MAGA allies for the COVID-19 pandemic response. Politics Joe Biden Share or comment on this article: Reverend Jesse Jackson sends plea to Biden to pardon his son the same day as Hunter reprieve e-mail Add commentStock market today: Wall Street ends mixed after a bumpy week
The musician Grimes claims that her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk, the “love of my life,” has become “unrecognizable” to her — and not because he became Donald Trump’s leading cheerleader in the final months of his campaign. Grimes’ concerns have to do with Musk’s apparent unwillingness to cooperatively co-parent the three children they share together, according to the Daily Beast . The singer dated Musk from 2018 to 2022, and they share two sons, X Æ A-Xii and Techno Mechanicus, and a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl. On Wednesday, Grimes took to X , the platform that Musk owns, to explain how their custody battle adversely affected her creative output and family life, the Daily Beast said. The custody issue was reportedly was resolved on Wednesday, but the details are unclear. The singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, said she had “spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights.” She presumably was referring to Texas, where Musk, the world’s richest man, now lives and operates his SpaceX, Tesla and other companies. Grimes said she only had “a fraction of his resources” to fight for access to her children, while her Instagram posts and modeling were “used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids.” Grimes added that she has been “fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me ... all the while I didn’t see one of my babies for 5 months.” “Having babies rips you apart and puts you back together,” Grimes said. “Babies are ten thousand philosophy classes of (expletive) you can only learn from that experience.” In another post shared Wednesday, Grimes wrote that she was “going bankrupt” from the custody suit. “I just slept and cried every minute I wasn’t explicitly fighting for my kids during that year,” she said. Grimes teased that she could say a lot more, but said she’s limited in what she discloses publicly. She said that most of her experiences in recent years “should remain behind closed doors.” Business Insider reported that the clerk’s office in Travis County, Texas, where Musk filed suit, confirmed on Wednesday that a judge issued a final order, back in August. The office said the status was listed as “closed” but declined to provide further details. As the Daily Beast said, Musk has not responded to Grimes’ X posts, even though he seems to spend much of his time on X. Certainly, he’s been busy, holding court at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and hatching plans to drastically reduce federal government spending as the co-lead of the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency. Then again, Musk also has been ripping off posts almost hourly, many about his SpaceX rockets but also about his plans to cut hundreds of thousands of government jobs on Trump’s behalf and his belief that he’s America’s free-speech prophet. Musk also regularly expresses his concerns about plummeting birth rates around the world, one of the reasons he has become almost evangelistic about fathering as many children as possible. He’s currently known to have fathered at least 11 children with three different women, including Grimes. Musk was reported to be building an “unusual family compound” in an upscale residential area of Austin, Texas. The New York Times reported in October that Musk hopes one day that all 11 of his children and their mothers can live there or at least stop by. The property appears to reflect Musk’s pronatalist ambitions, the New York Times reported. Pronatalists, from both the Christian right and Silicon Valley, believe that people should have as many children as possible, although they differ on the means of reproduction. Given Musk’s custody battle with Grimes, it’s hard to imagine that she’d want to be part of the compound, though her three children probably spend a lot of time there. The ex-couple’s oldest son, 4-year-old X, also has been seen in his father’s company quite a bit. Musk made news after he was photographed posing with the boy in a celebratory Trump family photo on election night.
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Rich Rodriguez opened his second tenure as West Virginia football coach with a volley that went thundering north on I-79. Hired on Thursday to return to coach his alma mater — a team he led to four Big East championships from 2001-07 — Rodriguez made an appearance Friday on “The Pat McAfee Show.” The Backyard Brawl between WVU and Pitt, one of college football’s greatest rivalries, was a topic of conversation between Rodriguez and McAfee, his former kicker with the Mountaineers. The next Backyard Brawl — Sept. 13, 2025, in Morgantown — catches the eye by its mere date (9-13), which is the opposite of the 13-9 Pitt victory when it upset WVU as a 28 1/2-point underdog on Dec. 1, 2007. That defeat knocked the Mountaineers out of a national championship shot and was the last for Rodriguez as West Virginia’s coach. Two weeks later, he left Morgantown to become head coach at Michigan. During the interview, McAfee, who famously missed field goals from 20 and 32 yards in that game, told Rodriguez the next Brawl is “obviously, the football gods putting something up on the tee, potentially, early in your first year.” “How do you view the thought of that particular game?” Rodriguez responded with an answer that will live with him for many months. “I probably misspoke a little bit earlier when I said the two worst four-letter words were soft and lazy,” he said. “I left out Pitt.” While an audience full of West Virginia fans chanted with vigor, McAfee nodded approvingly and couldn’t help himself when he added, “You do know that particular school literally wins nothing. They hang their hat on beating us in that one game, legitimately. That’s it. Let’s make sure Sept. 13 that kind of all goes away.” In the interest fair play, TribLive contacted two former Pitt players for their reaction to Rodriguez’s comments. Former Pitt linebacker Scott McKillop, who, in 2007, stopped WVU running back Steve Slaton inches short of a first down on a fourth-and-3 play in the fourth quarter, said he was “shocked” to hear a Pitt reference on “The Pat McAfee Show.” “However, if we are playing word games, some four-letter words that I associate with Rich Rod are quit, lose and fail.” Sitting quietly at home, former Pitt tight end Dorin Dickerson, co-host of “The Morning Show” on Pitt’s flagship station 93.7 FM, had three words of warning for Rodriguez. “They better win,” he said.
