Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs loses bid to get out of jail prior to sentencing<\/a><\/p>\nSean “Diddy” Combs loses a bid to be released from jail ahead of his sentencing on October 3.<\/p>\n
“I was very friendly with him. I got along with him great and he seemed like a nice guy,” Mr Trump said in an interview on Friday with conservative American news channel Newsmax.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know him well, but when I ran for office, he was very hostile,” he added.<\/p>\n
Asked if that meant he was not inclined to pardon Combs, Mr Trump said: “I would say so, yeah.”<\/p>\n
A New York jury found Combs guilty last month of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n
He was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges after a marathon trial in which he was accused of harrowing abuse.<\/p>\n
Since the verdict, his lawyers have repeatedly renewed their efforts to get him out on bail until his sentencing.<\/p>\n
His lawyers had asked US District Judge Arun Subramanian on July 29 to release Combs on a $US50 million ($77.2 million) bond.<\/p>\n
They argued conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where Combs was being held, were dangerous and that defendants convicted of prostitution-related charges in the past were usually released ahead of their sentencing.<\/p>\n
Combs is due to be sentenced on October 3 for his conviction on prostitution-related charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean “Diddy” Combs is seeking a pardon from US President Donald Trump, one of his lawyers has confirmed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,40207,2973,37380,2490,134,40206,84,38596,40205,1109,3281,2957],"class_list":["post-46735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-combs","tag-courts","tag-diddy","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-pardon","tag-politics","tag-sean-combs","tag-sentencing","tag-trial","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}