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Speaking with members of the property connected Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump floated the anticipation of issuing a statesmanlike pardon to disgraced rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, saying "it's not a popularity contest" and "I would surely look astatine the facts" if asked.
In a national indictment unsealed connected Sept. 17, Combs was charged with racketeering conspiracy (RICO); enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. If recovered guilty, helium faces a minimum of 15 years down bars oregon a maximum condemnation of beingness successful prison.
He has maintained his innocence passim the ongoing proceedings successful which witnesses person testified to alleged rape, intersexual assault, terrible carnal abuse, forced labour and cause trafficking.
Speaking with members of the property connected Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump floated the anticipation of issuing a statesmanlike pardon to disgraced rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, saying "it's not a popularity contest" and "I would surely look astatine the facts" if asked. (Getty Images/Jane Rosenberg and Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In effect to a question by Fox News newsman Peter Doocy astir his erstwhile relationship with Diddy and whether helium would see a pardon of the erstwhile rapper, Trump indicated that helium would see "if I deliberation idiosyncratic was mistreated."
The president said that truthful acold "nobody’s asked" for immoderate specified pardon, but noted: "I cognize radical are reasoning astir it. I cognize that they're reasoning astir it. I deliberation radical person been precise adjacent to asking."
"First of all, I'd look astatine what's happening, and I haven't been watching it excessively closely, though it's surely getting a batch of coverage," said Trump.
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Janice Combs, Diddy's mother, arrived successful tribunal Tuesday for her son's trial. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
"I haven't seen him. I haven't spoken to him successful years," helium went on, adding that Diddy "used to truly similar maine a lot, but I deliberation erstwhile I ran for authorities … that narration busted up."
Trump said that though helium ne'er had a falling retired with Diddy per se, aft entering politics, helium would "read immoderate small spot nasty statements successful the insubstantial each of a sudden."
"It's different," helium went on. "You go a overmuch antithetic idiosyncratic erstwhile you tally for politics, and you bash what's right. I could bash different things, and I'm definite he'd similar me, and I'm definite different radical would similar me, but it wouldn't beryllium arsenic bully for our country."
US President Donald Trump, right, and Elon Musk, main enforcement serviceman of Tesla Inc., during a quality league successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Friday, May 30, 2025. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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"As we said, our state is doing truly good due to the fact that of what we're doing, truthful it's not a popularity contest, truthful I don’t know, I would surely look astatine the facts. If I deliberation idiosyncratic was mistreated. Whether they similar maine oregon don't similar me, it wouldn't person immoderate interaction connected me," Trump concluded.
Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
Peter Pinedo is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital.
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