Donald Trump once again burdened himself with rumors about a possible presidential design for Sean Combs, the hip-hop mogul, which was convicted of two transport companies last month to participate in prostitution, and called him “half-inside”, but agreed with a host who asked whether it is “more likely”. Noer. No. “
Combs was not found to be guilty on July 2, more serious sex trade and conspiracy fees for sex trade and the indictment for blackmail. However, each of the two prostitution counts could end up in prison for up to 10 years if the Mogul is to be convicted on October 3 (right -wing experts, but say Rab You expect him to get much less.)
“Well, he was essentially, I think, a kind of half-inside,” Trump told Rob Finnerty to the Newsmax moderator on Friday evening. “[He’s] Still in prison or something, but he celebrated a victory. But I think it wasn't as good as a victory. ”
Trump and Combs had had a up and down relationship in the decades since their first meeting in the nineties. Over the years, the real estate magazine was discovered at a series of VIP parties and events of Combs in New York City, including the blowout birthday of the Bad Boy founder. Trump called Combs “a good friend” during an episode of 2012 from 2012 by The apprenticeWhile Combs described Trump as a “friend of mine”, not long after Trump started his first campaign.
But when Combs 2017 was asked for Trump, he said to The Daily Beast: “I think we, to be honest [black people are] in the same shitty position. This is not what we have. ” Talk to Charlamagne Tha Gott In 2020, Combs said: “White men like Trump have to be banished. This way of thinking is really dangerous. This man literally endangered our lives of us and our families to choose. The number one priority is to get Trump out of office.”
When asked about a possible pardon in May, Trump said: “I haven't seen him, I haven't spoken to him for years. He always liked me very much, but I think when I ran for politics, I suddenly read a little bit of any bad statements in the newspaper.” But at least he seemed a bit sympathetic to the emergency of Combs and said reporters that he would “certainly look at the facts” of the case. “I know that people are thinking about it,” he added. “People were very close to it.”
During the interview on Friday, Trump recalled that he was “very friendly with him. I came with him great, and [he] seemed to be a nice guy. I didn't know him well. But when I ran into office, he was very hostile. It's difficult, do you know? We are people. And we don't want things to spoil our judgment, right? But when they knew someone and they were fine and then they run to the office and he made some terrible statements. So I don't know … it makes it more difficult to do. “
As Rab The mogul's employees registered in May contacted people near Trump shortly after winning the presidential elections last November. During the transition of the President and in the opening months of Trump's second administration, several long -time friends and allies of combs who have known the rapper for many years Round.
The small number of high -ranking Trump officials who were aware of the conversations were expressed in depth due to the severity of the indictment of commuting a possible fighter penalty. (A representative of Combs did not immediately answer a request for a comment on Friday.)
It is unclear whether Combs' acquittal about the heaviest fees has changed the calculation under the president or persons in his administration. As Rab On Thursday, Combs' team has intensified his campaign behind the scenes in the past few weeks, according to the people in and from the Trump administration. “The plea has increased [this month]Says a Trump consultant and refers to a striking increase in the attempts by Combs Allies to recruit the Trump team.
In the past few weeks, long -term COMBS allies have offered, political operators, lobbyists and other with close connections to Trumpland and government officials to pay great financial sums as an exchange for help with a potential Trump award, three people who are familiar with the matter Rab. One of the sources says that the offer in which they are in the middle of the six numbers.
Several Trump consultants still believe that it would be a deeply informal mistake to apologize, while the administration is still involved in a scandal about the treatment of Jeffrey Epstein's examination.
There are also ongoing talks among the survivors to send a personal letter to Trump, in which he urges him against the idea. Rab Has checked a draft of the letter, warned the combat because he tried to rewrite and “rewrite the story” after his conviction for prostitution costs. The draft, the draft, adds that “would not be justice”, but a “devastating message to survivors everywhere: our life, our pain and our truth are still negotiable”.
On Thursday morning, Combs' lawyers submitted a 62-page registration, in which a judge was asked to clear his prostitution judgment and to grant him fully or to grant him a new process that “focuses exclusively on these two cases”. At the beginning of this week they submitted a new application in which the combs were published for deposit. The southern public prosecutor of the New York public prosecutor submitted her own application on Thursday evening and argued that combs remain in prison until his conviction.