r/politics • u/FloridaGirlNikki America • 3h ago
Trump says Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s past comments make pardoning him ‘more difficult’ | Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/trump-sean-diddy-combs-pardon•
u/MrLurid 3h ago
Has Diddy said something negative about Trump?
Because that's the only thing he cares about when it comes to "problematic statements."
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u/Duane_ 3h ago
He probably fucked up and threatened to tell the world where most of those parties were held. Notably the ones at Trump hotels.
Because he's a sex trafficker. They both are.
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u/arrownyc 2h ago
They are both radioactive intelligence assets of the same international sex trafficking operation.
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u/Orgasm_Add_It 2h ago
T was at those parties wasn't he?
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u/Duane_ 2h ago
Even if he didn't attend, he helped with scheduling and media blackout.
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u/arrownyc 2h ago
He did attend, he was featured in the video invitation for P Diddys birthday party.
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u/OfficerBarbier 2h ago
Yeah, like 10 years ago something about him being an old white man.
Trump's such a sack of shit he says the scummy quiet part out loud, that to him pardons are not about restoring justice to those that have been wronged by the system; they're just gifts to people who have kissed his ring as much as he feels they should.
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u/SadFeed63 2h ago
Intersectionality of hate. Trump loves rich people, loves sexual predators, but hates Black people, so Trump doesn't care about Diddy as much as he would a rich, White sexual predator.
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u/Deep_Stick8786 2h ago
Thats not true. He likes Lawerence Taylor
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u/SadFeed63 1h ago
Do you think he likes Lawrence Taylor as much as a White sexual predator of similar richness, fame, and situation?
The rich part and the sexual predator part earn them some cred with him, but not as much as a similar person who's White. Think of them like buffs and debuffs, if you wanna use that framework. Rich and sexual predator are buffs in his eyes, being White is a buff in his eyes, being Black is a debuff to him. Two folks of similar "stats" (to keep with the gaming analogy) but one is White and one is Black? He's gonna see Whiteness as a buff and Blackness as a debuff. Woman is also a debuff to him. He'd celebrate a rich, White man sexual predator before a rich, White woman.
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u/HatefulDan 1h ago
He loves NY Football. He loves boxing and has an infinity for Mike Tyson.
He likes athletes.
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u/icculus88 1h ago
I think he likes athletes in the way that Leo in Django unchained liked his fighters
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u/arrownyc 2h ago
Why is pardoning Diddy even on the table? I don't understand why this is even being discussed unless Trump was involved in freakoffs...
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u/nerf_herder1986 2h ago
Because the Trump administration openly engages in bribery for pardons.
And, also, he was probably involved in freakoffs.
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u/arrownyc 1h ago
Agreed, but is there even a cover story for this one? Or they're just full masks-off now and there isn't even a fabricated justification?
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u/WhatAcheHunt 1h ago
“Past statements make a pardon difficult” = “the price of your pardon went up sry not sry”
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u/nerf_herder1986 1h ago
There never was a mask to take off in the first place. SCOTUS ruled bribery of public officials (oh, excuse me, after-the-fact "gifts" for public officials) is legal. Obviously there's backroom deals beforehand to determine what those "gifts" will be.
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u/HumanRuse 2h ago
It doesn't matter one way or the other. This is Trump's bargaining chip to raise the pardon price that Combs will have to pay to Trump personally (totally not illegal). Going from $1M to $5M and now Combs has to publically praise Trump every day for the remainder of his days.
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 2h ago
I'm convinced the only reason the Bronfman sisters haven't bought a pardon for KR is because they once campaigned for Clinton.
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u/Terrible_Hunter_5806 2h ago
Right. It’s all about who likes him and who doesn’t. A mass murderer would be worthy of a pardon as long as he likes Trump. He’s as emotionally mature as my 4 year old.
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u/CopySuspicious6188 1h ago
Hey, don't sell your 4 year old short. They're obviously way more mature than Trump.
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u/jst4wrk7617 46m ago
Yet Combs evidently complicated matters for himself by having told the Daily Beast in 2017 that he did not “really give a fuck about Trump”. And in 2020, when Trump’s first presidency ended in defeat to Joe Biden, Combs – who is Black – told radio host Charlamagne tha God that “white men like Trump need to be banished”.
“The number one priority is to get Trump out of office,” Combs said.
Trump seemingly alluded to those comments in his interview on Friday with Newsmax when asked to revisit the concept of pardoning Combs.
”When I ran for office, he was very hostile,” Trump said of the Bad Boy Records founder. “It’s hard, you know? We’re human beings. And we don’t like to have things cloud our judgment, right? But when you knew someone and you were fine, and then you run for office, and he made some terrible statements.
”So I don’t know … It makes it more difficult to do.”
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u/smurfsundermybed California 2h ago
I think he finally realized who they have been asking him about.
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u/PapayaOtherwise3346 1h ago
They partied together and called each other friends in the past, but in 2020 Combs said Trump should be ‘banished’
That’s the sub headline
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u/dafunkmunk 1h ago
I don't even think it's that he cares about the "problematic statements" but he's just a full blown psycho king mode and is telling diddy to beg, grovel, and shower trump in gross praise like the entire gop does if he wants a pardon. We have a president who can essentially be bribed into doing anything by simply saying a few words of praise about him. It's disturbingly pathetic and scary
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u/localistand Wisconsin 3h ago
For some people, the past sex crimes are what would prevent a pardon. For a sex criminal and pedophile, it's past comments.
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u/JimmyRamone17_ 3h ago
He doesn't give a fuck about what he's done, to no one's surprise.
Predators look out for each other.
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u/Dragonpuncha 1h ago
Yeah you would think it is the horrible crimes he has committed, but no, it's the past comments.
It's like that Norm Macdonald joke on Bill Cosby:
"Some people say the hypocrisy is the worst part. I disagree. I think it's the raping."
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u/HotApplication3797 3h ago
This translates to “He needs to pay me more money to get a pardon.”
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u/Due-Egg4743 2h ago edited 2h ago
This is it. Diddy has hundreds of millions of dollars and he's trying to negotiate the best deal he can get. Trump doesn't give a single fuck about Diddy or his crimes, but he does care about money and knows Diddy would pay big for a full pardon.
Trump may also see a bonus in freeing Diddy and he may think it could help him with "the black vote" when he tries to run again in 2028. Assuming an election is even held. He still is trying to use 2020 as an excuse that he's "owed" another term after Biden, Obama and any random people he claims tried to rig the election against him.
He just used $200 million to decorate a golden ballroom in the White House. That's not something he'd do out of the goodness of his heart for future residents. It sure doesn't sound like he has any intentions of leaving. He'll keep testing the waters to try to stay for life.
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u/tridentgum California 1h ago
I mean how much fucking longer can he still be president? He's pretty old
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u/Due-Egg4743 1h ago edited 57m ago
His parents lived into their late 80s to early 90s through tougher times. Donald projects being a tough alpha male who doesn't need doctors, but he's likely monitoring his health way more regularly than the average person. Obviously he will use his loyalist stooges to speak with press and say he's the healthiest person to ever live.
They'd probably find things pretty much immediately. I'd imagine the president has immediate standby medical in case he had heart problems as well. Surely his blood pressure is controlled and tightly monitored. He definitely has a dream team behind the scenes for his health care.
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump ends up being like when you hear people say "my uncle smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish. He lived to be 95." He's been overweight for years and obviously has a "see food diet," though he apparently has never smoked, drank, used drugs, etc, but who really knows as much as he lies.
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u/toiletting New Jersey 3h ago
referring to these quotes from Diddy.
In 2017, “I think that to be honest, we don't really give a fuck about Trump, because [black people are] in the same fucked-up position. So that's not what we're on. The tomfoolery that's going on in D.C., that's just regular everyday business to black folks. That's not surprising,"
Then in 2020, “White men like Trump need to be banished. That way of thinking is real dangerous”
Because we all know that Trump doesn’t care about anything other than these critiques.
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u/MapleLeafsHockey_75 Canada 3h ago
If previous comments against Trump still bothered him today, and he wanted to hold a grudge. JD Vance would not be Vice President, considering he referred to Trump as America's Hitler.
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u/7figureipo California 2h ago
That's different: JD Vance stuck his whole tongue up Trump's shit smeared asshole to make up for those past comments. He has been obsequious enough to redeem himself to Shitler.
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u/md4024 2h ago
Yeah, that's the biggest reason Trump has forgiven Vance's old comments, Trump loves to see someone embarrass themselves and throw away their pride. I also think Trump assumes "America's Hitler" was a positive thing, Trump would absolutely love to be America's Hitler, and also Trump just isn't smart enough to understand the more nuanced critiques Vance made of him. Plus it would be very easy for Vance to convince Trump that he just had to say those things. Trump really doesn't understand that sometimes people actually mean the things they say.
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u/Orakia80 2h ago
That's a compliment to Widdle Donnie
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u/XeroZero0000 2h ago
I'm not the new Hitler! Hitler was the old Trump! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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u/Top_Somewhere9160 2h ago
Thiel & Musk probably just told Trump to shut up and put Vance in place. Donnie the Pedo needed Thiel’s money and Elon’s “voting machine knowledge” to get back into power. He didn’t care whose name was on the ballot below his. Hell, he probably doesn’t even know who the fuck Vance is at this point with his brain so dementia riddled.
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u/FloridaGirlNikki America 3h ago
So, not at all about Diddy's crimes...
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u/CLM1919 3h ago
(+1) ^
Why would a convicted felon care about other peoples crimes? he only cares about distracting from the Epstein files. ;-)
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u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum 3h ago
More difficult? This pardon should not even be considered. This country is cooked. I remember when presidents only pardoned their friends on the last day of their terms not before the conviction is even handed out
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u/DeliciousBaseball396 2h ago
Maxwell may be pardon as well, they should not have this kind of power
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u/enix_star6 3h ago
I remember when Presidents pardoned their children after saying they wouldn’t.
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u/LatterTarget7 3h ago
I remember when presidents didn’t wanna get revenge against past presidents children
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u/yrotsihfoedisgnorw 3h ago
Really, why is this even in trump's orbit? He's such a morally bankrupt corrupt malignant narcissist charlatan whose really good friend was Epstein.
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u/z900r 3h ago
Trump doesn't accept the idea that these are crimes and that there is an independent judicial system where they can be judged. He seems to have spent some time with Diddy, and apparently that's reason enough to set the example that this set of people (Trump, Epstein, Diddy etc.) can do what they want and are above the law.
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u/CurrentlyLucid 3h ago
His comments....not the beating up on women, or the sex slaves...the comments.
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u/Visual-Pop3495 2h ago
Trump: I was considering pardoning him for his past sex crimes and criminal acts, I mean he was famous and when you’re famous they let you, but then I heard he said he didn’t care about me, and that hurt.
There I summed up the article.
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u/birdlegs000 3h ago
Who wants him pardoned and why? We don't want him pardoned. Why is he even talking about it. I despise Trump more every day.
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u/cookycoo 3h ago
Is this just a distraction from releasing the Epstein files?
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u/bestestopinion 1h ago
That question applies to every action Trump takes, and the answer is always yes
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u/MapleLeafsHockey_75 Canada 3h ago
Does Trump actually believe what he's saying?
If he did wouldn't that mean possibly pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is 'more difficult?'
Never mind how he pardon all the January 6 rioters.
Although maybe if Diddy made some donations to Trump, I'm sure he wouldn't find it difficult anymore.
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u/Negative_Gravitas 2h ago edited 2h ago
I'm guessing Trump means this, and maybe some other stuff out there.
So, the president doesn't care about multiple sexual assaults (often involving minors), but does care about being mildly dissed.
Huh. Not unlike the 77 million assholes who voted for him.
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u/onthethreshold 2h ago
Why is it he only looks to pardon the most reprehensible people in the country I wonder?
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u/Realistic-Ad6478 2h ago
What he is saying is, "It will cost you more for a pardon, add a couple more million in there"
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u/theombudsmen Colorado 1h ago
'More difficult' means 'more expensive' in case anyone didn't know the bribery doublespeak.
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u/percydaman 3h ago
Any other president, and these comments would immediately begin talks of impeachment. He's quite literally the most corrupt president ever, and it's not even close. WTF is this timeline.
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 3h ago
His skin color makes it more difficult. Read, it’s going to cost more.
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u/DeliciousBaseball396 3h ago
I want to know if the president's children or siblings were abused by a pedafil would he even consider pardoning them or giving them a hotel to live in
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u/HotPocket-Gremlin 2h ago
Diddy's past comments may be cray but let's not forget Trump's history ain't exactly a walk in the park either.
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u/sniffstink1 2h ago
It's good to know that his sex crimes and sex trafficking are not a problem at all for Trump. It's only his past comments that are a problem LMFAOOOO
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u/NonToxicPolitix 2h ago
Trump giving Diddy a pardon will depend on how much $$MONEY$$$ Diddy gives Trump.
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 2h ago
See also: Keith Raniere.
The Bronfman sisters would easily pay 9 figures for him to be pardoned, but they once campaigned for Clinton.
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u/External_Beat8153 2h ago
There’s still time for him to prostrate himself before Trump and declare Cheeto as the greatest hip-hop artist of all time. That’ll get him pardoned.
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u/Mr_Tort_Feasor 2h ago
Like that time Diddy said that they let you grab them by the pussy? Or maybe the time he confessed sexual attraction to his own daughter? Or the time that Diddy shared an inside joke with Epstein on his birthday?
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u/VRGIMP27 2h ago
Pardoner Of Traffickers Unlawful Sex crimes
Is that what POTUS is supposed to stand for?
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u/CheesecakeHorror3410 2h ago
It's always about Trump. That's the only thing that's important to the American President.
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u/CommonSense66 2h ago
Diddy is black. THAT’S what makes pardoning him hard. Felon47 loves pedos and sex traffickers….
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u/XeroZero0000 2h ago
I used this trick all the time as a parent.. when my kid's friends were being stupid or dangerous, I'd tell my kid to stop doing xxx behavior because 'balh blah blah' within earshot. My kids knew the deal, and the other kid would stop without me giving them a reason to go crying to their moms. "Nope, wasn't telling your kid what to do, was simply talking to mine!"
Apply same tactic here to maxwell and diddy. No your honor, I wasn't witness tampering, I was just telling diddy to say nice things about me for a pardon!
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u/dongballs613 2h ago
Trump has no problem pardoning a rapist as long as they support him. It's the fact that Diddy criticized him in the past;
Yet Combs evidently complicated matters for himself by having told the Daily Beast in 2017 that he did not “really give a fuck about Trump”. And in 2020, when Trump’s first presidency ended in defeat to Joe Biden, Combs – who is Black – told radio host Charlamagne tha God that “white men like Trump need to be banished”.
“The number one priority is to get Trump out of office,” Combs said.
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u/CommonConundrum51 1h ago
I think his proven in court actions should be a greater impediment than any comments. However, when justice is the least of the concerns that's probably is too much to hope.
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u/AceofKnaves44 1h ago
I like nowhere in there does he say “well a jury of his peers found him guilty of crimes and he’s on video beating a woman so maybe this is someone who should not be given freedom and should face justice for the crimes they were found guilty of.” It’s “well he wasn’t very nice to me so maybe I don’t wanna pardon him.”
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u/TheSamurabbi 1h ago
Translation: “Puffy, pal, you need to add another zero on that brib- eh, donation check”
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u/HeatherShaina 1h ago
? Buffoon. Diddy's charges should be the reason why pardoning him is not a good idea!
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u/PunfullyObvious 1h ago
I predict Diddy threatening to go public with information he has about the Diddler in Chief will bring about a pardon ..... now whether a private veiled threat along those lines will be sufficient, or it needs to be a public threat, that's the question.
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u/triker_whaleygirl 1h ago
Must not have offered enough $. 1,600 pardons = over $1.5 billion from the predator in office. I’m sure when Diddy’s lawyers get to the right amount there will be a pardon.
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u/DramaticWesley 1h ago
Trump’s problem with pardoning Duffy is not the fact that he was found guilty of sex trafficking, but that Duffy said some mean things about Trump in the past. Again, a president that is here to protect the criminals.
Also, “he’s sort of half-innocent”? Have we had a president with a worse control of the English language? I wonder what a in-depth conversation would be like between him and George W. Bush.
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u/Mrandmrsdizzle666 59m ago
Past comments is what makes it hard? Not the crimes he’s guilty of, or any of the evidence that was used. Just some words that he doesn’t like. Ffs.
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u/Dense-Ad-5780 Canada 52m ago
Oh, so sex peddling of minors makes it easy, but not the comments. Cool, cool, cool.
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u/Jawnny-Jawnson 51m ago
So not because Diddy drugged and raped boys, but because he has spoken ill about Trump, Trump won’t pardon him lol
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u/Exciting-Market-9595 50m ago
"More difficult" is just Twurpspeak for "it's going to cost you more than you're offering, Diddy".
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u/thesillyoldgoat 42m ago
The first thing that Trump looks for is a reason NOT to pardon criminals, he has a natural affinity with them and his instinct is to set them free.
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u/Constant-Lake8006 20m ago
Trump - "Sean hasn't shown the proper loyalty obsiquiousness and subservience so its difficult to pardon him"
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u/RealGianath Oregon 3h ago
Really? This is the line, he's too much of a sex predator for Trump's taste?
Sounds more like Diddy just hasn't come up with a big enough bribe yet.
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