President Trump on Friday stated he’d take into account pardoning embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s at the moment on trial in the identical Manhattan courtroom the place Trump was discovered accountable for intercourse abuse in 2023.
Combs faces federal fees together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. Jurors have heard testimony in latest weeks that the 55-year-old music mogul brutally abused his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura whereas presiding over a drug-fueled empire of intercourse and violence.
Trump admitted on Friday that he hasn’t been following the trial carefully and hasn’t spoken to Combs in years, however stated his fellow New York native “used to really like me a lot” previous to him coming into the political area.
“I think when I ran for politics that relationship sort of busted up,” Trump stated. “He didn’t tell me that, but I read some little bit nasty stuff in the paper.”
The president, a convicted felon who dodged additional prison trials and potential jail time by being elected to a second time period in workplace, stated that he sympathizes for people who find themselves mistreated by the authorized system. He indicated it’s potential that would come with Combs if the rapper is convicted.
“I would certainly look at the facts,” Trump advised White Home reporters, claiming his selections on pardons usually are not influenced by whether or not somebody likes him or not.
Combs advised the New York Occasions in 2017 that he hadn’t spoken to Trump shortly, however had nothing in opposition to the controversial Republican.
“I’m not his enemy or nothing like that, but I’m not expecting Trump to come save my people,” Combs stated on the time.
Trump this week fired off a collection of pardons and commutations that led to the discharge of convicts who’ve publicly given him their assist, together with actuality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, former New York Metropolis congressman Michael Grimm and twice-jailed ex-Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, amongst others.
Initially Revealed: Might 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM EDT
