Overview
- In a New York Times interview, the president confirmed Combs requested clemency in writing and said he is not weighing it.
- Trump offered to show reporters the letter but did not produce it, leaving the timing and contents unconfirmed.
- Combs was convicted in July on two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution and is incarcerated at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey.
- A jury acquitted him of sex trafficking and racketeering, and his legal team has filed an appeal challenging the conviction and sentence.
- Trump also said he does not plan pardons for Nicolás Maduro, Sam Bankman-Fried or Robert Menendez, a stance set against his earlier clemency for Jan. 6 defendants and former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández.