Diddy and Trump? Rapper has mingled in political circles for years

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Sean Combs, the rapper generally referred to as “Diddy,” has been well-known in music, enterprise, and political circles because the late Nineteen Nineties with each Democratic and Republican candidates.

However in response to federal prosecutors, certainly one of hip-hop’s greatest names used his fame to coerce ladies into demeaning sexual acts for greater than 16 years leading to three felony fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering on Monday. Diddy has pled not responsible to all fees.

Combs’ community of high-profile politicians features a who’s who in nationwide and native politics, together with presidential candidates, members of Congress and mayors.

Beginning with former President Donald Trump, who, like Diddy, was born and raised in New York, was first publicly linked to the rapper in 1998 when the true property mogul was one of many high-profile superstar attendees on the singer’s twenty ninth birthday celebration.

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Trump was additionally featured in a video invitation to the get together, and referred to Combs as “the legendary Puff Daddy,” in response to Newsweek.