Key Takeaways
- President Donald Trump mentioned that Sean "Diddy" Combs has asked him for a pardon.
- Trump was questioned about the possibility of pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, whose Supreme Court appeal was denied earlier that day.
- Diddy was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for violating the Mann Act.
President Donald Trump said that a recently-sentenced federal prisoner has asked him for a pardon: Sean "Diddy" Combs.
During remarks delivered to the media on Monday (October 6), Trump fielded a question about whether he would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell's attempt to challenge her conviction at the Supreme Court was denied earlier that day.
"I'd have to take a look at it," he responded about a possible Maxwell pardon.
That led Trump to ruminate on pardon requests more broadly.
"I have had a lot of people ask me for pardons," he said. "I call him Puff Daddy, he has asked me for a pardon."
You can see Trump's response at the 29:15 mark below.
Last week, Diddy was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for two counts of violating the Mann Act. The charges related to "freak offs" — hours or days-long sexual encounters involving the mogul's girlfriends and male escorts that Combs paid for, directed, and often recorded.
Reporting from this past summer indicated that Trump had even then "seriously considered" pardoning Diddy.
