Days after Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to more than four years behind bars after he was convicted on two counts of prostitution, the disgraced rapper asked for help. On Monday, president Donald Trump revealed that Diddy asked him for a pardon, but so far, he’s staying quiet on what, if anything, he plans to do moving forward.
Trump shared the update while speaking with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House on October 6.
“A lot of people have asked me for pardons,” he said, as ABC News reported. “I call him Puff Daddy, [he] has asked me for a pardon.”
This isn’t the first time Trump has mentioned a potential pardon for Diddy. He also talked about the possibility of offering him a pardon in May, while talking to Fox News.
“I haven’t spoken to him in years. He used to really like me a lot. I think when I ran for politics, that relationship busted up,” he said, via Billboard. “I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any impact on me.”
So far, Diddy’s representatives haven’t offered a comment on what Trump said about a potential pardon, but his lawyers did tell ABC News that they are planning on filing an appeal following his sentencing, where a judge handed down a punishment that included a $500,000 fine and 50 months behind bars.
“What is the point of more incarceration for a person like Mr. Combs?” attorney Alexandra Shapiro told the outlet. “He really should be on a path to rehabilitation. He should be able to get treatment. He should be able to start giving back in a way that I think he is uniquely positioned to do, and it seems just senseless to keep him in prison for years more.”
His lawyers have also asked that Diddy serve his sentence at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security prison in New Jersey that offers a program called Residential Drug Abuse Program, or RDAP, for inmates.
“In order to address drug abuse issues and to maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts, we request that the Court strongly recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that Mr. Combs be placed at FCI Fort Dix for RDAP purposes and any other available educational and occupational programs,” another one of Diddy’s attorneys, Teny Geragos, wrote in a letter to the court.
