Sean “Diddy” Combs indeed asked for presidential pardon from President of the United States Donald Trump.
The politician has confirmed that the disgraced music mogul has requested a presidential pardon in connection with his federal criminal case, which concluded last week with Diddy, 55, sentenced to more than four years in prison for his conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
On Monday, October 6, while speaking with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins regarding a potential pardon for Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, the 47th president of the U.S. mentioned that “a lot of people have asked me for pardons,” including Combs.
His confirmation came two months after a member of the controversial rapper’s defense team told the outlet that the camp had reached out to the Trump administration about a potential pardon.
“It’s my understanding that we’ve reached out and had conversations in reference to a pardon,” attorney Nicole Westmoreland revealed that time.
However, due to the Bad Boy records founder’s “very hostile” behaviour towards Trump had made his chances to get presidential pardon very slim.
Trump, 79, had previously indicated that he was unlikely to pardon Combs during an interview with Newsmax, saying, “I was very friendly with him, I got along with him great and he seemed like a nice guy. I didn’t know him well. But when I ran for office, he was very hostile.”
Although the US President had shared the possibility of pardoning the disgraced rap mogul around three months back, he rethink his decision now.
The 79-year-old stated that the two had a friendly relationship until he ran for the office in the 2020 presidential election.
“It’s hard, we’re human beings,” Trump told Rob Finnerty during an August 1 interview. “We don’t like to have things cloud our judgment, right? But when you knew someone and you were fine and then you run for office and he made some terrible statements. So, I don’t know. It’s more difficult.”
