Will Trump Pardon Diddy? His Rival Is Convinced the President Owes Him ‘Some Favors’
One of Diddy‘s rivals, Suge Knight, claimed that President Donald Trump could potentially pardon Diddy for his crimes. The Bad Boy Records mogul is currently facing trial after he was arrested for sex trafficking.
“Puffy’s gonna be alright,” Suge Knight told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo in an interview from prison, where he’s serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter in a hit-and-run-accident. “I think he’s got some favors with the government. I think they’re gonna show him a little leeway. It might not seem like it when it’s all said and done, but I don’t think he has nothing to worry about, and I don’t think he’s worried because he’s gonna be federal, and if he gets convicted, Trump’s gonna pardon him.”
When Cuomo asked for clarification about the matter, the mogul responded, “He pardoned Michael Harris. They don’t care about that, it’s all about, you know, what’s in it for the long run.” Harris was a Bad Boy Records co-founder and was arrested for attempted murder and drug trafficking in 2021. Trump later commuted his sentence.
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Knight then claimed that Diddy could potentially influence the jury through his connections. “I still feel that Puffy is going to be alright and have a fair shot at it,” Knight said. “ He’s not a dummy. And I’m quite sure somebody going to talk to those jurors and convince one or two of them that’s all you need, is one.”
The interview comes after Diddy’s ex, Cassie Ventura, took the stand and testified that Diddy left a freak off, a drug-fueled sex session, to confront Suge Knight. “We were having a freak off in one of his homes in L.A. and he said Suge was at Mel’s Diner and we packed up and drove down there,” she testified, and added that Diddy and his bodyguards were armed with guns and drove in an SUV. Knight didn’t recall it ever happening, telling Cuomo that it was “a good thing they didn’t show up” because “somebody would have got hurt.”
Diddy, born Sean Combs, had ties to Donald Trump before he was arrested. In 2015, he told the Washington Post, “Donald Trump is a friend of mine, and he works very hard.” However after Trump’s first term, he became more critical about his positions. “White men like Trump need to be banished. That way of thinking is real dangerous,” he said in an interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God, per CNN.
Cassie emotionally testified about how her life was at a standstill because she would devote most of her time to participating in freak-offs. “I didn’t know if he would be upset enough to be violent or if he would write me off and just not want to be with me at all,” she said in a Lower Manhattan court. “Over time, it turned into the fact that there were actually blackmail materials to basically make me feel like, if I didn’t do it, that it would be hung over my head in that way, or that these things would become public.”
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