Sean Combs (right)accepts an award from the Rush Philanthropic Foundation from Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump (left) at Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida on March 11, 2005.

Sean "Diddy" Combs' lead defense attorney Marc Agnifilo claims that he has "nothing to do" with lobbying President Donald Trump for a presidential pardon.

Agnifilo told CBS News national correspondent Jericka Duncan in a "CBS Mornings" interview Aug. 7 that he has "nothing to do with a possible pardon."

"I have had conversations with nobody," Agnifilo said. "I have not spoken to the president. I have not spoken to anybody who speaks to the president about Sean Combs. I have not."

Agnifilo added that he is "not political" and only tells Combs what is in the news about a possible pardon, but that the hitmaker said to "go tell (Trump) I deserve a pardon."

Agnifilo's comments came after a different Combs attorney, Nicole Westmoreland, claimed in a CNN interview this week that she understood the defense team "reached out" to the Trump administration and "had conversations in reference to a pardon."

USA TODAY has reached out to Westmoreland and Agnifilo for comment.

On July 2, jurors found Combs not guilty of the most serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking ex-girlfriends Casandra "Cassie" Ventura Fine and a woman who testified under the pseudonym "Jane" in his sweeping trial that nearly lasted two months.

Prosecutors accused the embattled mogul of coercing the women to participate in drug-fueled sex parties known as "freak-offs" that sometimes lasted days. Combs was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution regarding those two women. He faces up to 20 years behind bars, as each count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. He is set to be sentenced by federal Judge Arun Subramanian on Oct. 3.

The president recently pushed back on the idea of pardoning Combs while discussing the possibility of presidential pardons for the Bad Boy Records founder, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and former Rep. George Santos in a Newsmax interview with host Rob Finnerty that aired last week.

"Sean 'Diddy' Combs. Would you consider pardoning him?" Finnerty asked. Trump didn't answer directly but said that negative comments that Combs made about him would make it "more difficult."

"Well he was essentially, I guess sort of, half-innocent. I don't know what they do, he's still in jail or something," Trump said of Combs. "He was celebrating a victory but I guess it wasn't as good of a victory."

Trump added: "You know, I was very friendly with him, I got along with him great, seemed like a nice guy. I didn't know him well, but when I ran for office he was very hostile." Later in the interview, Trump replied, "I'd say so," when Finnerty clarified by asking if it was "more likely a no for (pardoning) Combs?"

Combs is currently in jail awaiting sentencing at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. Subramanian again denied Combs' bail in an order Monday, Aug. 4, after the rapper and his legal team requested that he be released on a $50 million bond.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Diddy's lawyer distances himself from Trump pardon: 'I have not spoken to the president'

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