Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s serving a four-year jail sentence for prostitution-related crimes, has requested Donald Trump for a pardon, however the US president mentioned he doesn’t plan to grant clemency to the hip-hop star.
Trump, in an interview with The New York Instances printed Thursday, additionally mentioned he doesn’t plan to concern pardons to a number of different high-profile people, together with deposed Venezuelan chief Nicolas Maduro.
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The 56-year-old Combs was convicted final July of two counts of transporting individuals throughout state traces for prostitution.
A jury acquitted the music mogul of essentially the most critical fees — intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
Trump instructed the Instances throughout Wednesday’s interview that Combs had despatched him a letter asking for a pardon, however he was not inclined to grant it.
Requested about pardoning Maduro, who was seized by US forces over the weekend and is going through drug trafficking fees, Trump mentioned, “No, I don’t see that.”
In November, Trump pardoned Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence after being convicted of drug trafficking.
Trump additionally mentioned he didn’t plan to concern pardons to disgraced crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried, who’s serving a 25-year jail sentence, and former Democratic senator Robert Menendez, who’s serving an 11-year sentence for accepting bribes.
The Instances mentioned the Republican president was additionally requested whether or not he would contemplate pardoning Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer convicted of the 2020 homicide of George Floyd, whose dying sparked nationwide racial justice protests.
“I haven’t been requested about it,” Trump mentioned.
On the day of his inauguration, Trump pardoned greater than 1,500 individuals who had been convicted or have been going through fees for involvement within the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by his supporters.
He has carried out a slew of different pardons since then of different loyalists.
AFP
