President Donald Trump is allegedly “seriously considering” a presidential pardon for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is presently in prison and awaiting sentencing on prostitution-related charges.
The decision by Trump to pardon Combs, 55, who has been incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn since his arrest in September 2024, is sure to generate a firestorm of outrage.
Earlier this month, a jury returned a split judgment in his high-profile federal trial, acquitting him of the more serious accusations of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy while convicting him of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. His sentence is scheduled for October 3.
According to Deadline Magazine, the concept of pardoning Puff Daddy has evolved from “simply another Trump weave to a concrete event.”
The U.S. President said, when asked on the matter in the Oval Office, that “nobody’s asked but I know people are thinking about it.”
“I know they’re thinking about it. I think some people have been very close to asking,” he added.
“First of all, I’d look at what’s happening. And I haven’t been watching it too closely, although it’s certainly getting a lot of coverage,” Trump continued.
“I haven’t seen him; I haven’t spoken to him in years. He used to really like me a lot, but I think when I ran for politics, he sort of—that relationship busted up from what I read. I don’t know. He didn’t tell me that, but I’d read some nasty statements in the paper all of a sudden.”
“So, I don’t know. I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me wouldn’t have any impact,” he concluded.
