Donald Trump is hitting pause on any plans to pardon music mogul Diddy, revealing in a current NewsMax interview that the concept has develop into “tougher” given Diddy’s previous criticism of him.
The previous Unhealthy Boy Information head, who was convicted on prostitution fees in Could, is now dealing with a colder stance from Trump, regardless of what the previous president described as a as soon as “very pleasant” relationship.
“I obtained together with him nice, and [he] appeared like a pleasant man. I didn’t know him effectively,” Trump mentioned of Diddy. However issues took a flip throughout Trump’s 2020 run for workplace, the place Diddy was overtly essential of the then-president’s management and rhetoric.
“After I ran for workplace, he was very hostile. It’s onerous, you already know? We’re human beings. And we don’t prefer to have issues cloud our judgment, proper? However if you knew somebody and also you have been high quality, and you then run for workplace, and he made some horrible statements. So I don’t know …. it makes it tougher to do,” Trump added.
The strain between the 2 public figures is rooted in long-standing feedback Diddy made years in the past, together with a 2019 interview with Charlamagne tha God, the place the music mogul acknowledged that “white males like Trump” ought to be “banished.”
Now, with Diddy’s authorized troubles unfolding in actual time, any discuss of a possible pardon has shifted from perhaps to unlikely. Although Trump famous that he believed Diddy is “half-innocent,” his remarks made it clear that non-public historical past and public statements have closely influenced his present view.
