Donald Trump believes Sean “Diddy” Combs is “half-innocent” out of his sex-trafficking trial, however there will likely be no presidential pardon proper now for the much-accused Grammy winner.
And, simply two days after Deadline completely reported that Trump was “severely contemplating” such a pardon and the White Home performed its playing cards near the chest, Friday’s no pardon stance makes Diddy foe 50 Cent very completely happy certainly.
“Are you able to consider he thought he was getting pardoned,” the Energy franchise EP and pro-Trump rapper posted on social media with an AI generated picture late Friday after a nonetheless grievance fueled POTUS informed Newsmax he wasn’t inclined to grant Combs a get outta jail card. “No Sir, you aren’t. You stated very nasty issues.”
But, Trump being Trump, it may all change on a dime.
Sticking it to federal prosecutors sweeping case, the eight-men and four-women jury simply discovered Combs responsible of lesser expenses of transportation to have interaction in prostitution on July 2. Although the U.S. Lawyer’s workplace for the Southern District of New York now need self-declared swinger and home violence perpetrator Combs to continued to be denied getting out on a $50 million bond and be sentenced to a number of years behind bars on October 2, the fact is the not responsible resolution on the cruel intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy expenses was a critical blow for now fired lead prosecutor Maurene Comey and her workforce.
A part of Trump’s public and behind closed door dalliance with a Combs pardon is to stay a knife within the household of ex-FBI Director James Comey. The president additionally desires to punish what he views as an overreaching and too impartial SDNY, sources inform me.
Earlier Friday, months after Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson promised he would attempt to speak Trump out of any Combs pardon, the ‘In Da Membership’ rapper posted a clip from the previous Superstar Apprentice host’s sit-down with the fledgling conservative cable newswer the place Trump agreed with reporter Rob Finnerty that any pardon for Diddy would “extra seemingly be a no.”
Amidst a clemency marketing campaign from Combs loyalists to the White Home and people near the transactional POTUS and Trump being Trump, the pardon “no” tonight was certified.
Proper after a dialogue a few pardon for Jeffrey Epstein’s newly cooperative confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, Finnerty requested: “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. Would you contemplate pardoning him?” To which, a usually self-centered Trump replied: “Nicely, he was basically, I assume, type of half harmless. In all probability— I used to be very pleasant with him however once I ran for workplace he was very hostile and it’s arduous. So, I don’t know, it’s harder.”
Espousing ignorance one second after which intimate data the following about each Maxwell and Combs, Trump was simply barely much less inclined in the direction of the latter again in Might when he was when requested a few pardon for the now convicted Unhealthy Boy Information founder. “I would definitely have a look at the info if I believe anyone was mistreated, whether or not they like me or don’t like me,” Trump stated on Might 30 within the Oval Workplace simply a few weeks after Combs’ ultimately eight-week lengthy and infrequently horrifically wicked trial started.
Since our story on Combs receiving a doable pardon, MAGA media standard-bearers equivalent to Megyn Kelly have pleaded Trump to not give the one-time mogul a go. “MAGA is already upset over elites seeming to cowl for one another,” the ex-Fox Information host stated on July 30. “This is able to not assist. GOP struggling (with) younger feminine voters, most of whom will hate a Diddy pardon,” Kelly exclaimed in a reasonably convincing argument that additionally served as a warning shot to the transactional and media skinny skinned Trump
Gazing a most of 20 years for the prostitution expenses he was discovered responsible of, Combs stays at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle. Diddy has been on the usually criticized facility since his arrest final September in a NYC lodge. Attempting to quell a MAGA rebellion over the withholding of the promised recordsdata on the vile Epstein, who died in custody in 2019, Trump has been letting unfastened much more of a barrage of distractions that typical to direct consideration away from his well-known relationship with convicted and well-connected intercourse offender Epstein and what the recordsdata could say about him.
To that, simply days after being granted immunity in a two-day dialog with a high DOJ official, the 20-year sentenced Maxwell was instantly moved out of federal jail in Florida to a low-security jail camp in Texas.
Maxwell, Combs …nothing to see right here.
