Trump intervenes in possible
President Donald Trump answered on Friday to a question about the potentially forgiveness of Sean “Diddy”, who is accused of federal positions, including sexual trafficking.
“I have not talked to him in years,” Trump told News reporter, Peter Doucy, when asked about the forgiveness of the combs. “I used to like him a lot, but I think when I ran by politics, that relationship broke, for what I read. I don’t know, I didn’t tell me that.”
“But I had read some … unpleasant statements in the newspaper suddenly,” he continued.
Combs once ran in the same rich social circles as Trump, but was accused Federal in September for a position of extortion conspiracy, a position of sexual trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and a transport position to participate in prostitution.
Prosecutors in Manhattan added two positions last month of sex trafficking, fraud or coercion, and transport for prostitution purposes. The surveillance images published last May showed Peines assaulting her ex -girlfriend, singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
He declared himself innocent of all the charges and faces 15 years of life imprisonment if he is convicted.
“You know, it’s different,” Trump said Friday. “You become a very different person when you run through politics and you do the right thing. I could do other things and I am sure he will like it, and I am sure that other people would like, but it would not be so good for our country.”
Trump and combs were previously seen as symbols of financial success and social status. According to reports, Trump was the first important celebrity to reach the combs birthday party in 1998, with his mutual respect even generating an article from Vibe magazine.
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Trump, then an unscrupulous real estate magnate whose wealth had been frequently praised in hip-hop songs since the 1980s, told the New York Daily News after ComBs was accused of assault in 1999 that Comps was “a visionary and great talent.”
On Friday, he resisted giving a definitive answer about whether or not to forgive.
“It’s not a popularity contest, so I don’t know,” he said. “I would certainly look at the facts. If I think someone was mistreated, whether I like it or I don’t like it, I would have no impact on me.”