Overview
- In a New York Times interview, President Trump said Sean "Diddy" Combs asked for a pardon in a letter and stated he is not considering clemency.
- Thursday’s acknowledgment marks the first on-the-record confirmation that the White House received Combs’ written request.
- Combs, 56, was convicted of two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution and is serving a roughly 50-month sentence.
- Trump also signaled no pardons for several high-profile figures, naming Nicolás Maduro, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Robert Menendez, and said he has not been asked about Derek Chauvin.
- The decision comes against the backdrop of Trump’s earlier pardons, including mass pardons for January 6 defendants and the 2024 pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández.