Published at the beginning of this week “The Onion” an article With the heading “Sean Combs asks for a quick procedure so that he can come to the part in which Trump pardoned him”. As it turns out, there could actually be something on this fake news.
Combs, which was charged last September, is currently on trial in the Southern District of New York for sex trade and organized crime. But since Donald Trump’s presidential election won, close confidants of the mogul have been trying to approach Trumpland.
During the change of presidential change and in the first months of Trump’s second term of office, several long -time friends of Combs started contact with some employees of the transition team and the government of Trump as well as to other people from the president’s environment.
This has reported two sources familiar with the matter and another person who is informed about Rolling Stone. Due to the sensitivity of the situation, the sources expressed anonymous and on the condition that Rolling Stone gives no names of people who are involved in these secret conversations.
Sean Combs “doesn’t even like Donald Trump”
“He is ready to do everything to get out of prison,” reports a source that Sean Combs has known for a decade. “He has always been like that. He will always do everything that is necessary to get out of a situation.”
“He doesn’t even like Donald Trump,” they add. The sources describe the talks as ongoing and temporarily, one of the people familiar with the matter characterizes them as “contacting Diddy World to the Trump team”. A Combs spokesman did not respond to the request from Rolling Stone for a statement, just as little as the White House.
For everyone involved, it is clear that people who have known the rapper and producer for years are flattered by people who whisper into the president’s ear. Everything in the hope that this lies the foundation stone and that communication channels will create at the highest level if the Combs team has to ask for a pardon or punishment.
Trump still knows nothing
There is currently no evidence that Trump personally knows about these conversations, and the president has not publicly commented on the criminal charges or law enforcement against Combs. But the few high-ranking Trump confidants, who know about it, have expressed significant reservations against possible mitigation for Combs in view of the severity of the allegations.
One of Combs’ narrow confidants has experience with pardoning and punishment mitigation by the President. Corey Jacobs, a high -ranking consultant of Combs and a familiar friend from his youth, came out of prison when President Barack Obama then pardoned him in December 2016. He had served a lifelong prison for drug offenses.
This threatens Sean Combs
Everything is also at stake for Combs and he absolutely wants to be released from the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He made an application for an accelerated procedure, rejected a comparison and declared himself unpaid in all five charges before a federal court. In the event of a conviction, the Mogul threatens 15 years to life in prison.
During private contact with members of the Trump government and his social environment, Combs’ allies tried to present the rapper’s prosecution in clearly trumpist terms and to use the President’s Republican vision as a martyr and eternal victim.
According to their representation, he and Trump are both successful business people and controversial celebrities who are wrongly targeted by federal authorities and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. Both had to deal with a flood of allegations of sexual attacks, which they reject as wrong.
It is about Sean Combs’ private life
“The term ‘Deep State’ fell once or twice,” reports one of the sources familiar with the contact. “In this case, it is about the private, personal sex life of Sean Combs that has nothing to do with his legal business,” said Combs’ lawyer Teny Geragos on Monday in his opening plea. “The government has no place in the private bedrooms of this man.”
The supporters of Sean Combs also have government officials-including some who are involved in the Trump government in mercy applications-and reminds their other contacts in the Maga world about the fact that the President and the rapper and Mogul have known each other for many years.
Trump has publicly guaranteed Combs’ character. In a widespread clip of Trump’s NBC reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice” from 2012, Trump describes the musician and producer as his “friend”.
“I love Diddy,” says Trump as a result of “The Apprentice”. “You know that he is a good friend of mine; he is a good guy,” he adds before he asked the candidate – and former artist of Combs – Aubrey O’Day, a singer of Danity Kane, asks: “Is he a good guy?”
“I don’t want to answer this question,” she replied, whereupon the future president said that “he would definitely stand up for him”. (For years, O’Day alluded to alleged misconduct from Combs. “The answer to what happens if you don’t want to do what the managers want? I am the living proof of this.” On Instagram, O’Day indicated that she will testify in the coming weeks at Combs’ process.)
Sean Combs shows itself in public as a fan of Trump
Sean Combs is also a confessing fan from Trump. Over the years, the real estate magnate was seen at a series of Combs’ VIP parties and events in New York City, including the rushing birthday celebrations of the Bad Boy founder. In Combs ‘song “We Gon’ Make it” from 2006, Combs mentions his colleagues. “I spend a lot of money absurd, money for private jets/as much as Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Bloomberg,” raps Combs.
In 2015, months after Trump’s start of his presidential campaign, Sean Combs told Washington Post: “Donald Trump is a friend of mine and he works very hard.” Two months before Trump’s victory in 2016, the rapper on MSNBC said: “I think, [die Schwarzen Communitys] were a little disadvantaged during Obama’s presidency, ”added that Obama had“ done excellent work ”.
How does the Trump government think about the efforts?
Some of the Trump government officials who know about the efforts do not seem to take them seriously. They say that despite the existing relationship between Trump and Combs, it would be a hard fight and a PR album for the White House. Combs in view of the type of alleged crime, including the alleged sex trade with two ex-girlfriends, only to be pardoned in 2024, is difficult, so two sources familiar with the situation.
However, Trump has repeatedly proven that he is very transaction -oriented when it comes to using his office as President of the United States to make mighty, rich friends and prominent colleagues.
Sometimes pardon or punishment by Trump can be given – or revoked – for the most trivial reasons. In the last moments of his first term, Trump signed the pardon for the close friend of the rapper Snoop Dogg and Death-Row-Records founding member Michael “Harry-O” Harris. As Rolling Stone unveiled at the beginning of last year, the efforts to be pardoned were almost destroyed by an angry Trump when the outgoing president was tempted to assume that Snoop Dogg was still hated. (Trump gave in after Harris’ allied to show Trump’s documentary recordings that showed that Snoop no longer loathed him.)
Lil Wayne and Donald Trump
At the end of his first term, in the shadow of the fatal unrest in the Capitol on January 6th and at the height of the Coronavirus crisis, Trump also pardoned the rapper Lil Wayne. This happened, among other things, because he thought he was nice and a political supporter.
Rolling Stone recently published a cover story about Lil Wayne, in which the rap artist also spoke about his interaction with Trump. Then several former officials from Trump’s first government complained to this magazine that Lil Wayne was ungrateful and that he had brought Trump and his advisors like Trump’s son -in -law Jared Kushner to help him.
This article was translated and adjusted by Kristina Baum from English. You can find the original here.