Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ authorized crew has reportedly been in touch with President Donald Trump a couple of pardon for the disgraced music mogul.

One of many attorneys on Combs’ protection crew has revealed that they approached Trump’s administration for a pardon.
“It’s my understanding that we’ve reached out and had conversations in reference to a pardon,” Nicole Westmoreland, a member of Combs’ protection crew, informed CNN on Tuesday, Aug. 5. When she was requested how the Unhealthy Boy founder feels about his possibilities for a pardon, Westmoreland informed the outlet that Diddy “is a really hopeful individual and I imagine that he stays hopeful.”
Following her interview, a White Home official informed CNN they “is not going to touch upon the existence or nonexistence of any clemency request.”
Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution on July 2, after an virtually two-month federal trial in New York Metropolis. He was acquitted on extra critical fees of racketeering and intercourse trafficking.
Diddy has been held on the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Middle since he was arrested in September 2024. His authorized crew has since made 5 unsuccessful makes an attempt to get him launched from custody on bail, with Choose Arun Subramanian denying their newest movement on Aug. 4.
Again in Might, Trump was requested about pardoning Combs, per ABC Information, which got here even earlier than his trial ended. On the time, the president informed reporters he “will surely have a look at the details,” including, “If I believe somebody was mistreated it wouldn’t matter whether or not they like me or don’t.”
Following the conclusion of his trial, Trump was requested once more about the potential of pardoning Combs throughout an interview with Newsmax on Aug. 1, the place he sand a unique tune.
“Properly, he was basically, I guess, type of half-innocent,” Trump stated. “I don’t know what they do, nonetheless in jail or one thing. However he was celebrating a victory, however I assume it wasn’t pretty much as good of a victory.”
Trump added that he “didn’t know him properly” and that Combs was “very hostile” when he ran for workplace.
“We’re human beings. We don’t wish to have issues cloud our judgment, proper? However while you knew somebody and also you have been fantastic and then you definately run for workplace and he made some horrible statements,” he continued. “So, I don’t know. It’s harder. Makes it extra, I’m being trustworthy, makes it harder to do.”
Combs’ sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 3. He faces a most sentence of 20 years in jail.