Donald Trump Confirms Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Asked Him for a Pardon

Donald Trump confirmed connected Monday (Oct. 6) that Sean “Diddy” Combs asked him for a statesmanlike pardon. Taking questions from reporters successful the Oval Office yesterday, Trump said the disgraced hip-hop mogul’s squad had reached retired to inquire astir the pardon, but the president seemed connected the obstruction astir granting one.

Combs was sentenced to 4 years successful situation connected Friday aft being recovered blameworthy of 2 felony counts of proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. After a newsman asked astir the request, Trump said, “A batch of radical person asked maine for pardons. I telephone him Puff Daddy,” successful notation to 1 of respective nicknames the Bad Boy Records brag has gone by implicit the past 3 decades. “He has asked maine for a pardon.”

While Trump did not elaborate connected the inquire oregon bespeak how, oregon if, helium volition assistance it, successful August helium told a Newsmax newsman that helium though Diddy was “essentially, I guess, benignant of half-innocent,” seemingly referring to Combs being recovered blameworthy of the 2 charges portion being acquitted of the much superior felony charges of enactment trafficking and racketeering. “He’s inactive successful jailhouse oregon something, but helium was celebrating a victory. But I conjecture it wasn’t arsenic bully of a victory,” Trump added.

At the time, Trump said the 2 were erstwhile “very friendly” and that helium “got on with him great,” but noted their dynamic shifted erstwhile helium entered authorities much than a decennary ago, describing Combs arsenic becoming “very hostile” successful the years since. Back successful May, Trump told Fox News that helium would “look astatine the facts” of the Diddy case.

“I haven’t spoken to him successful years,” Trump said astatine the time. “He utilized to truly similar maine a lot. I deliberation erstwhile I ran for politics, that narration busted up. … I would surely look astatine the facts. If I deliberation idiosyncratic was mistreated, whether they similar maine oregon don’t similar me, it wouldn’t person immoderate interaction connected me.”

In August, 1 of Diddy’s lawyers told CNN that it was her “understanding that we’ve reached retired and had conversations successful notation to a pardon,” without offering immoderate further details.

In the meantime, according to the Associated Press, Diddy’s lawyers person requested that helium beryllium sent to the low-security FCI Ford Dix national situation successful New Jersey to service retired his four-year term, telling justice Arun Subramanian connected Monday that the facility’s cause attraction programme would beryllium helpful. Attorney Teny Geragos wrote that the residential cause attraction programme astatine Fort Dix volition let Combs to “address cause maltreatment issues and to maximize family...