Donald Trump said that Sean “Diddy” Combs asked him for a pardon, but the president gave no indication that he was going to grant him one.
Combs was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday, after he was found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said, “A lot of people have asked me for pardons. I call him Puff Daddy. He has asked me for a pardon.”
The president had been asked whether he would give a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate to Jeffrey Epstein. She is serving time for her conviction on sex-trafficking charges. Earlier on Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal.
“I’d have to take a look at it,” Trump told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
He added, “I wouldn’t consider it or not consider it. I don’t know anything about it. I will speak to the DOJ.”
Deadline reported in July that Trump was considering a pardon for Combs. In an August interview with Newsmax, Trump was asked about pardoning Combs and said, “Well, he was essentially, I guess, sort of half innocent. Probably— I was very friendly with him but when I ran for office he was very hostile and it’s hard. So, I don’t know, it’s more difficult.”
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