Odds of a Trump Pardon of P. Diddy Low Heading Into June

The odds of US President Donald Trump pardoning disgraced music mogul P. Diddy were low at 9 percent following comments made by the president when asked about a potential pardon on Friday.

Fox News' Peter Doocy posed the question to Trump.

"Well, nobody's asked. You had to be the one to ask, Peter. I know people are thinking about it. First of all, I'd look at what's happening," the US president responded.

"I haven't spoken to him in years. He really liked me a lot."

Trump added that, while he hadn't followed the star's trial very closely, he knew it had received a lot of coverage. The president went on to state that he and Diddy had been close at one time, but the relationship had "busted up" once he got into politics.

Trump has issued a long list of pardons since his return to the White House, including those convicted over the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, rapper NBS YoungBoy as well as Julie and Todd Chrisley, reality TV stars convicted in a 2022 of fraud and tax evasion scheme.

Trump's comments came a day after Diddy's former personal assistant testified that the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted her, threw her into a swimming pool, dumped a bucket of ice on her and slammed a door against her arm during a torturous eight-year tenure.

The woman, testifying at Combs’ sex trafficking trial under the pseudonym “Mia,” said Combs put his hand up her dress and forcibly kissed her at his 40th birthday party in 2009, forced her to perform oral sex while she helped him pack for a trip and raped her in guest quarters at his Los Angeles home in 2010 after climbing into her bed.

“I couldn’t tell him ‘no’ about anything,” Mia said, telling jurors she felt “terrified and confused and ashamed and scared” when Combs raped her. The assaults, she said, were unpredictable: “always random, sporadic, so oddly spaced out where I would think they would never happen again.”

Her testimony echoed that of Combs’ other personal assistants and his longtime girlfriend Cassie, who said he was demanding, mercurial and prone to violence. She is the second of three women testifying that Combs sexually abused them.

Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges. His lawyers concede he could be violent, but he denies using threats or his clout to commit abuse.