President Donald Trump could hand Sean “Diddy” Combs a lifeline following the music mogul’s conviction earlier this month, based on a brand new report.
Deadline reported late Tuesday, July 29, that Trump is “seriously” considering pardoning Diddy, 55, citing a Trump administration source.
Us Weekly understands that the White House doesn’t comment on potential pardons. Diddy’s representatives didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
Trump first mooted a possible pardon for Diddy in May after he issued pardons to reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley. “I would definitely have a look at the facts. If I believe any individual was mistreated, whether or not they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any impact on me,” he commented during a May 30 Oval Office press conference.
Trump also discussed his personal relationship with the incarcerated musician. “He used to actually like me quite a bit, but I believe once I ran for politics … that relationship busted up, from what I read,” he said. “I don’t know — he didn’t tell me that, but I’d read some little bit nasty statements within the paper hastily.”
Diddy was found guilty on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution on July 2. The rapper was, nonetheless, cleared of three of essentially the most egregious charges against him: two counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering conspiracy. (Diddy has maintained his innocence since his September 2024 arrest and denied all the costs against him.)
The Bad Boy Records founder is currently detained on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Recent York, pending sentencing on October 3. He could withstand 20 years in prison less time already served.
On Tuesday, Diddy’s attorneys filed yet one more motion asking Judge Arun Subramanian to let him out on bail as he awaits sentencing. His lawyers are requesting he’s released on a $50 million bond.
On the morning of July 2, inside a packed lower Manhattan courtroom, Sean “Diddy” Combs was declared not guilty on the three most serious charges against him in his high-profile sex trafficking trial. Upon hearing the decision — he was acquitted of two counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering conspiracy and convicted […]
The motion said, partly, “Sean Combs shouldn’t be in jail for this conduct. The truth is, he would be the only person currently in a United States jail for being any kind of john, and positively the one person in jail for hiring adult male escorts for him and his girlfriend, when he didn’t even have sex with the escort himself.”
A pardon for Diddy is just not without precedent, as Trump, 79, already wielded his presidential powers to pardon two other celebrities earlier this yr: the Chrisleys.
In May, Trump issued pardons to Todd, 56, and Julie Chrisley, 52, following their 2022 convictions on charges including tax evasion, bank and wire fraud and conspiracy. (The previous Chrisley Knows Best stars have maintained their innocence.)
Todd was initially sentenced to 12 years in prison and Julie received a seven-year sentence. The couple reported to their respective prisons in Pensacola, Florida, and Lexington, Kentucky, in January 2023. They were each released on May 28.
Savannah Chrisley, Julie Chrisley, and Todd Chrisley. Savannah Chrisley/YouTube
“It’s a terrible thing, nevertheless it’s an ideal thing, because your parents are going to be free and clean,” Trump told Todd and Julie’s daughter Savannah Chrisley via a phone call shared via X on May 27. “I hope we are able to do it by tomorrow. I don’t know them, but give them my regards. Wish them a very good life.”
Trump said Todd and Julie received “pretty harsh treatment,” adding, “Congratulate your parents. I hear they’re terrific people. This shouldn’t have happened. … They’ve good children. You’re now not children, but I’ll say it anyway. They’ve good children, don’t they?”
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