President Trump said Monday that Sean “Diddy” Combs had requested a presidential pardon, his comment coming just days after the convicted rap mogul was sentenced to more than four years in prison for transporting his former girlfriends and male commercial sex workers across the country for depraved sex parties distinguished by drug use and violence.
“I have a lot of people who have asked me for pardons,” Trump told reporters at the White House . “I call him ‘Puff Daddy,’ has asked me for a pardon.”
Combs, 55, was sentenced to 50 months in prison on Friday following his July conviction on two prostitution offenses alleging he violated the Mann Act. Manhattan Federal Judge Arun Subramanian said the mogul had abused the power and control he wielded over the lives of women he “p