This isn’t the first time Joe Ricketts’ emails have been leaked, but it’s pretty obvious why his son Tom Ricketts, who is owner and chairman of the Cubs, had to release a statement responding to these set of emails. Apparently Joe had no problem receiving awful emails, but he enjoyed sending email forwards filled with Islamophobic thought and racist language too.
Shocker! I know.
Molly Osberg from Splinter News has a running series, “The Billionaire’s Inbox,” and holy shit has it exposed Joe Ricketts as a terrible person. Also, rich people need better hobbies because spending hours reading obvious conspiracy-type crap about Barack Obama and then creating an email chain with your buddies to discuss where Obama really was born seems like a huge waste of time.
Here are the racist conspiracy emails rotting right-wing billionaire Joe Ricketts' brain https://t.co/8OkLJ4NbkI pic.twitter.com/VTKtX7Y0BG
— Splinter (@splinter_news) February 5, 2019
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Anyway, here’s just one example of the type of stuff these latest emails revealed about Joe Ricketts and his pals.
This is the sort of thing the powerful Republican donor Joe Ricketts, whose son heads Trump's re-election finance committee and whose other kids do things like serve as governor and own the Chicago Cubs, forwards to his pals pic.twitter.com/4dZWAF6YiZ
— Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) February 5, 2019
And of course, if you’re playing the right-wing playbook, you just have to hate Islam and fear Muslims.
tfw you're donating tens of millions of dollars to promote 'fiscal responsibility,' and for absolutely no other possible reasonhttps://t.co/K1Gg21kPvH pic.twitter.com/HhjxcfW6Ud
— Molly Osberg (@molly__o) February 4, 2019
Here’s Tom Ricketts response to his dad’s emails via The Athletic.
“WE ARE AWARE OF THE RACIALLY INSENSITIVE EMAILS IN MY FATHER’S ACCOUNT THAT WERE PUBLISHED BY AN ONLINE MEDIA OUTLET. LET ME BE CLEAR: THE LANGUAGE AND VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THOSE EMAILS HAVE NO PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY.
“MY FATHER IS NOT INVOLVED WITH THE OPERATION OF THE CHICAGO CUBS IN ANY WAY. I AM TRUSTED WITH REPRESENTING THIS ORGANIZATION AND OUR FANS WITH A RESPECT FOR PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS. THESE EMAILS DO NOT REFLECT THE CULTURE WE’VE WORKED SO HARD TO BUILD AT THE CHICAGO CUBS SINCE 2009.”
Joe Ricketts has also released a statement, apologizing.
statement from joe ricketts posted this evening on his personal website: pic.twitter.com/F7bywhePCO
— Molly Osberg (@molly__o) February 5, 2019
You can see all the emails here.
One more.
And in case you missed the last set of leaked emails from Joe Ricketts.
Did Joe Ricketts Really Compare Himself To A Slave? Yes, Yes He Did As His Emails Are Leaked
Hey, Tom, it might be a good time to get some good PR for a change this winter and give the green light to Theo to go out and sign a certain free agent.
