{"id":113122,"date":"2025-08-02T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113122\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:57:09","slug":"trump-rejects-diddy-pardon-for-now-50-cent-gloats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113122\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Rejects Diddy Pardon, For Now; 50 Cent Gloats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDonald Trump<\/a> believes Sean \u201cDiddy<\/a>\u201d Combs is \u201chalf-innocent\u201d out of his sex-trafficking trial, but there will be no presidential pardon right now for the much-accused Grammy winner.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd, just two days after Deadline exclusively reported<\/a> that Trump was \u201cseriously considering\u201d such a pardon and the White House played its cards close to the chest, Friday\u2019s no pardon stance makes Diddy foe 50 Cent<\/a> very happy indeed. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCan you believe he thought he was getting pardoned,\u201d the Power franchise EP and pro-Trump rapper posted on social media with an AI generated image late Friday after a still grievance fueled POTUS told Newsmax he wasn\u2019t inclined to grant Combs a get outta jail card. \u201cNo Sir, you are not. You said very nasty things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYet, Trump being Trump, it could all change on a dime.<\/p>\n

\n\tSticking it to federal prosecutors sweeping case, the eight-men and four-women jury just found Combs guilty of lesser charges of transportation to engage in prostitution on July 2<\/a>. Though the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office for the Southern District of New York now want self-declared swinger and domestic violence \u00a0perpetrator Combs to continued to be denied getting out on a $50 million bond<\/a> and be sentenced to several years behind bars on October 2, the reality is the not guilty decision on the harsh sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges was a serious blow for now fired<\/a> lead prosecutor Maurene\u00a0Comey and her team.<\/p>\n

\n\tPart of Trump\u2019s public and behind closed door dalliance with a Combs pardon is to stick a knife in the family of ex-FBI Director James Comey. The president also wants to punish what he views as an overreaching and too independent SDNY, sources tell me. <\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier Friday, months after Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson promised he would try to talk Trump out of any Combs pardon<\/a>, the \u2018In Da Club\u2019 rapper posted a clip from the former Celebrity Apprentice host\u2019s sit-down with the fledgling\u00a0conservative cable newswer where Trump agreed with reporter Rob Finnerty\u00a0that any pardon for Diddy would \u201cmore likely be a no.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAmidst a clemency campaign from Combs loyalists to the White House and those close to the transactional POTUS and Trump being Trump, the pardon \u201cno\u201d tonight was qualified. <\/p>\n

\n\tRight after a discussion about a pardon for Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s newly cooperative confidant\u00a0Ghislaine Maxwell, Finnerty asked: \u201cSean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs. Would you consider pardoning him?\u201d To which, a typically self-centered Trump replied: \u201cWell, he was essentially, I guess, sort of half innocent. Probably\u2014 I was very friendly with him but when I ran for office he was very hostile and it\u2019s hard. So, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEspousing ignorance one moment and then intimate knowledge the next about both Maxwell and Combs, Trump was just slightly less inclined towards the latter back in May when he was when asked about a pardon for the now convicted Bad Boy Records founder. \u201cI would certainly look at the facts if I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don\u2019t like me,\u201d\u00a0Trump said on May 30 in the Oval Office<\/a> just a couple of weeks after Combs\u2019 eventually eight-week long and often horrifically depraved trial began. <\/p>\n

\n\tSince our story on Combs receiving a possible pardon, MAGA media standard-bearers such as Megyn Kelly<\/a> have pleaded Trump not to give the one-time mogul a pass. \u201cMAGA is already upset over elites seeming to cover for each other,\u201d the ex-Fox News host said on July 30. \u201cThis would not help. GOP struggling (with) young female voters, most of whom will hate a Diddy pardon,\u201d Kelly exclaimed in a pretty convincing argument that also served as a warning shot to the transactional and media thin skinned Trump <\/p>\n

\n\tStaring at a maximum of 20 years for the prostitution charges he was found guilty of, Combs remains at Brooklyn\u2019s\u00a0Metropolitan Detention Center. Diddy has been at the often criticized facility since his arrest last September in a NYC hotel. Trying to quell a MAGA uprising over the withholding of the promised files on the vile Epstein, who died in custody in 2019, Trump has been letting loose even more of a barrage of distractions that usual to direct attention away from his well-known relationship with convicted and well-connected sex offender Epstein and what the files may say about him. <\/p>\n

\n\tTo that, just days after being granted immunity in a two-day conversation with a top DOJ official, the 20-year sentenced Maxwell was suddenly moved out of federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas. <\/p>\n

\n\tMaxwell, Combs \u2026nothing to see here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump believes Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs is \u201chalf-innocent\u201d out of his sex-trafficking trial, but there will be no…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4089,67099,2458,69,171,11830,349,28375,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-113122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-50-cent","9":"tag-curtis-50-cent-jackson","10":"tag-diddy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-megyn-kelly","14":"tag-sean-diddy-combs","15":"tag-sean-combs","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114959525475932389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113122","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=113122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}