Megyn Kelly reportedly opposes potential Trump pardon for Diddy

Megyn Kelly is slamming the prospect of Trump issuing a presidential pardon for convicted mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Megyn Kelly took to X on July 30 to pen her views opposing the idea, referencing a Deadline article that came out a day earlier about the mogul possibly being pardoned.

"Trump should not pardon Diddy. He doesn’t deserve it. He’s a Trump hater. He’s a woman abuser. MAGA is already upset over elites seeming to cover for each other. This would not help. GOP struggling w/young female voters, most of whom will HATE a Diddy pardon," she wrote.

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Diddy was convicted earlier this month in a federal trial over charges relating to transportation to engage in prostitution. However, he was cleared of the heavier charges, including two counts of s*x trafficking and one count of racketeering conspiracy.

Deadline reported Tuesday, July 29, that the president is “seriously” considering issuing a pardon for the mogul, citing an insider from the Trump administration. The president first floated the idea in May:

“I know people are thinking about it,” he said at the time. “First of all, I’d look at what’s happening and I haven’t been watching it too closely although it’s certainly getting a lot of coverage.” He went on, “I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any impact on me.”

He also discussed his bond with the rapper:

“I haven’t seen him. I haven’t spoken to him in years. He used to really like me a lot, but I think when I ran for politics … that relationship busted up, from what I read,” he said. “I don’t know — he didn’t tell me that, but I’d read some little bit nasty statements in the paper all of a sudden."

Diddy is currently being detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. His sentencing has been scheduled for October 3. He is looking at up to 20 years in prison.

Earlier this month, when Diddy's conviction was announced, Megyn Kelly slammed the jurors for acquitting him of the most egregious charges. On The Megyn Kelly Show, the former Fox and NBC News anchor said:

“Yep, that’s exactly the right attitude for Sean Combs, who just got away with serious felonies, in my view.” She also claimed that Combs is “guilty as sin, and this jury just gave him a total free pass.”

Megyn Kelly, who was previously an attorney, said:

“They bought Marc Agnifilo’s argument, it appears," referring to Diddy's lead defense attorney.

Ok! Magazine also reported Megyn Kelly's response at the time:

"Sean Combs has been found not guilty on the majority of counts against him and has been found guilty of only the two least serious crimes that he was charged with," Megyn Kelly said. "There is little question that this is a defeat for the prosecution. The two counts on which he's been found guilty are transportation to engage in prostitution. There were two counts of it with respect to Cassie Ventura and Jane, who testified under a pseudonym, and he has been found not guilty on racketeering, not guilty on s-- trafficking, with respect to Cassie Ventura and with respect to Jane." Kelly said that both of the s-- trafficking counts "require 15 years minimum in prison," but he "escaped liability on both" of them.

She continued,

"It was going to be an obvious jury nullification if he escaped a guilty verdict on transportation to engage in prostitution. The evidence was overwhelming that he did that. There were receipts. There was testimony by the escorts. It was very clear that Sean Combs did pay these male escorts to cross state lines and to come into his various hotel rooms and have s-- with his girlfriends, Cassie and Jane, and they had him dead to rights on that... I've been saying all along, if they found him not guilty on those, it would prove that this has been a total nullification of the jury. He was a famous man, and they didn't want to find him guilty, because it's very clear he did those two."

Her tirade at the time didn't end there, as she referred to the verdict as "f*cking ridiculous," noting that it is "absolutely outrageous the amount of crime that this guy just got away with."

"I will make it my personal mission to maintain his humiliation in the minds of all Americans," she vowed at the time.

As of this writing, Trump has yet to directly address the claims that he may be pardoning the disgraced mogul.

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