{"id":103883,"date":"2025-07-30T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103883\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:34:15","slug":"trump-seriously-considering-sean-combs-pardon-ahead-of-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103883\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump “Seriously Considering” Sean Combs Pardon Ahead Of Sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Donald Trump<\/a> is heavily weighing giving Sean \u201cDiddy<\/a>\u201d Combs a full presidential pardon ahead of the convicted<\/a> Bad Boy Records founder\u2019s sentencing later this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tNearly two months after Trump publicly entertained the notion of a Diddy pardon<\/a> in an Oval Office gaggle, a comprehensive get out of jail card for Combs is being \u201cseriously considered,\u201d an administration source tells Deadline.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, as several associates of the much-accused and currently incarcerated \u201cAll About the Benjamins\u201d performer have been pitching the White House, other insiders confirm the topic has leveled up from \u201cjust another Trump weave to an actionable event\u201d since Combs was found partially guilty in the his NYC sex-trafficking trial earlier this month. Of course, as a number of parties attest, this being the roller coaster of Trumpworld, any decision on a Combs pardon is in flux until POTUS actually puts his signature on paper.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Donald Trump Denies Being Briefed That His Name Appeared In Jeffrey Epstein Files, Despite Wall Street Journal Report That He Was Informed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tRepeatedly denied a $50 million bond<\/a> and release from Brooklyn\u2019s Metropolitan Detention Center since his arrest last September, Combs could end up spending two to three years in a federal prison upon his sentencing on October 3 by Judge Arun Subramanian. Any sentence certainly would include time already served by Combs. Even with that, and the feds seeking the maximum under sentencing guidelines, an appeal is widely expected to be launched by the 10-attorney-deep defense almost immediately after sentencing occurs.<\/p>\n

\n\tContacted by Deadline, Combs\u2019 defense team led by Marc Agnifilo and Teny Gerago had \u201cno comment\u201d on any pardon talk for their client. While a number of individuals close to Combs both personally and professionally have been very active in seeking White House recourse for the Grammy winner, the defense team itself has had no significant participation in the process, I hear. Up on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the reply was that \u201cthe White House will not comment on the existence or nonexistence of any clemency request,\u201d according to an administration official.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Trump White House Pulls Wall Street Journal Reporter From Upcoming Press Travel Pool Because Of Jeffrey Epstein Story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWith a damning verdict for the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office for the Southern District of New York delivered by a federal jury on July 2 after an eight-week sex-trafficking trial, Combs escaped the most severe of the criminal charges he was facing. Even before the mixed verdict came in, Trump exclaimed on May 30 that when it came to a Diddy pardon, he \u201cwould certainly look at the facts if I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don\u2019t like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce big on Trump, Combs became quite critical of him during the Republican\u2019s first term and endorsed Joe Boden in 2020. Before that, Trump and Combs had known each other for decades, with the former bluntly calling the latter a \u201cgood friend\u201d in 2012. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Cassie Ventura, Sean Combs<\/a>, Donald Trump and Melania Trump in 2008 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoe Schildhorn\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tSoon after hitting stardom, the often-ostentatious Combs was a regular on the 1990s and 2000s Manhattan party and charity circuit and often came into contact with Trump, who moved in similar circles. In the Season 12 premiere of The Apprentice, Trump told a reticent ex-Danity Kane singer Aubrey O\u2019Day that he thought her former boss was \u201ca good guy, I\u2019m going to stick up for him.\u201d Asserting in May of this year that \u201cno one has asked\u201d for a pardon for Combs, Trump added, \u201cI know people are thinking about it\u201d as the May 12-starting trial went on.<\/p>\n

\n\tJumping into the fray after weeks of trolling Combs, Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson vowed to stop any pardon.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m gonna reach out so he knows how I feel about this guy,\u201d the Trump-friendly rap star May 31 posted on social media.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Fired Diddy & Jeffrey Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Slams Trump: \u201cFear Is The Tool Of A Tyrant\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWeeks later, after hearing harrowing testimony of drug-fueled \u201cfreak off\u201d sex sessions and violence from ex-girlfriends \u201cJane\u201d and a very pregnant Cassie Ventura<\/a>, as well as ex-staffers, male escorts and law enforcement, the jury of four women and eight men only convicted Combs on the charges of transportation to engage in prostitution. Avoiding a likely life sentence, the 55-year-old Combs was declared not guilty in early July of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. The result laid bare the clear overreach and shortcomings of the Maurene\u00a0Comey-led prosecutors\u2019 legal strategy, as well as the power of celebrity in American justice.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis week, Combs\u2019 defense lawyers again requested that their client be let out of his confinement. Yet again, an offer of a $50 million bond was put on the table, as were restrictions on Combs\u2019 travel and who he interacts with. Earlier this month, Judge Subramanian gave the prosecution and the defense a July 30 deadline to put together a detailed package on letting Combs out for the roughly 60 days before sentencing. It looks like that proposal will not be a joint proposal from the parties, though more documents from the defense might show up in the docket in the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Jessica Williams Guests On \u2018The Daily Show\u2019 To Say Trump Is Targeting \u201cAll Of Our Greatest Black People\u201d To Distract From Epstein Scandal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tOval Office consideration of a Combs pardon has grown in recent days, I\u2019m told by multiple sources. The increased interest also comes as the distraction-politics-advocating POTUS faces an uprising by his MAGA base over the continued reluctance on the part of the Department of Justice to make public promised files on now-dead sex offender and former Trump pal Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. Trump has even turned on enduring ally Rupert Murdoch with a $10 billion lawsuit<\/a> after the Fox News owner\u2019s Wall Street Journal published a piece on July 18 on the president and Epstein\u2019s friendship. The well-connected millionaire was indicted in 2019 on sex trafficking charges and more involving underage women. As a point of contention for some who disbelieve the official suicide conclusion, Epstein died suddenly<\/a> in custody in New York before his trial could begin.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Virginia Giuffre Dies By Suicide: Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew Accuser Was 41<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tNot long after the Combs\u2019 verdict was announced and as the Epstein flip fallout exploded, lead prosecutor Comey \u2014 daughter of ex-FBI director and Trump foe James Comey \u2014 was brusquely fired from the SDNY after years of service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. In a July 18 statement on her exit,<\/a> ex-Epstein prosecutor Comey never mentioned Trump by name, but left no doubt who she was referring to when she said: \u201cFear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is heavily weighing giving Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs a full presidential pardon ahead of the convicted…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67099,2458,69,171,15053,17104,11830,67100,349,28375,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-103883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-curtis-50-cent-jackson","9":"tag-diddy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","13":"tag-joe-rogan","14":"tag-megyn-kelly","15":"tag-pardons","16":"tag-sean-diddy-combs","17":"tag-sean-combs","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940324520391216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}