President Donald Trump has confirmed that Sean “Diddy” Combs has requested a presidential pardon in connection along with his federal legal case.
While talking with NCS’s Kaitlan Collins on Monday concerning a potential pardon for Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump talked about that “a lot of people have asked me for pardons,” together with Combs, who was sentenced Friday to greater than 4 years in jail for his conviction on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
In August, a member of Combs’ protection workforce told NCS that the music mogul’s 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,” lawyer Nicole Westmoreland instructed NCS’s Elizabeth Wagmeister on the time.
Trump had beforehand indicated that he was unlikely to pardon Combs throughout 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.”
Trump added on the time that this made pardoning Combs “more difficult to do.”
When contacted by NCS concerning Westmoreland’s feedback in August, a White House official mentioned they “will not comment on the existence or nonexistence of any clemency request.”
Also on Monday, attorneys for Combs asked Judge Arun Subramanian – who sentenced the disgraced mogul on Friday – to suggest to the Bureau of Prisons that Combs be positioned at a low safety federal correctional facility in Fort Dix, New Jersey the place he can “address drug abuse issues” and “maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts.”