Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs absurdly compared himself to soon-to-be president Donald Trump in a desperate attempt to be bailed out of jail before Thanksgiving.
The disgraced rapper’s lawyers cited Trump in a Monday court filing, pointing out the similarities between their respective legal situations.
Lawyers quoted an appellate decision from Trump’s election interference case regarding the First Amendment.
‘Only a significant and imminent threat to the administration of criminal justice will support restricting Mr. Trump’s speech,’ the DC Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in December, as recited in Combs’ filing.
Lawyers claimed that Combs has ‘a greater constitutional claim than other trial participants…to speak out against the prosecution and the criminal trial process that seek to take away his liberty.’
‘Accordingly, the Court should apply Trump’s heightened standard when considering Mr. Combs’ speech here,’ the filing asserted.
This legal briefing was in response to prosecutors accusing the alleged s3x-trafficker of trying to influence potential jurors through a ‘public relations campaign’ on his children’s social media pages.
The allegation stemmed from seven of his children to posting a video marking his birthday on November 4.
Business Insider reported that Combs allegedly used an app banned by the Bureau of Prisons called ContactMeASAP.com to arrange for these videos to be posted online.
Diddy allegedly paid off one witness after calling and texting her a staggering 128 times over four days from his jail cell to persuade her to support him.
Prosecutors also claimed he used other inmates’ phone accounts to make calls to people he is not allowed to speak with and to ‘avoid law enforcement monitoring.’
Diddy was federally charged with racketeering conspiracy, s3x trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution on September 17.
The fallen hip-hop mogul said that prosecutors ‘allegations and aggressive and deceptive media tactics’ had already shredded his public image, and only an acquittal could reverse that.
Diddy claimed the charges that he ran a decade-long criminal enterprise were ‘fictional’ and that prosecutors were putting a ‘theatrical spin’ on the truth.
He remains incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being repeatedly denied bail. Diddy is set to go to trial in May 2025.
