Diddy’s explosive words about Donald Trump revealed as president is urged against giving him a pardon: Live trial updates
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A third alleged victim of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will take the stand on Thursday in a federal court in Manhattan.
A woman who will testify under the pseudonym of Jane will tell the jury that the disgraced mogul ‘used lies, drugs, threats, and violence’ to coerce Jane into so-called freak-offs, according to prosecutors.
It comes after Cassie Ventura’s friend Bryana Bongolan told the jury on Wednesday that Diddy once dangled her over a 17-story balcony, leaving her suffering from night terrors and paranoia.
Bongolan said the September 2016 attack at Cassie’s Los Angeles apartment caused a bruise on her leg and pain to her back and neck. Jurors saw photos of her wearing a neck brace. Her bruise looked like it was the size of a softball.
Diddy, 55, has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers concede he could be violent, but he denies using threats or his music industry clout to commit abuse.
Diddy said there would be a ‘race war’ if Trump was elected president
Diddy’s words about Donald Trump have come back to haunt him after the president said he would consider pardoning him if he is convicted of sex-trafficking and racketeering.
‘If Trump gets elected, I really do believe in my heart there will be a race war,’ Diddy said in 2020 as he campaigned for Joe Biden.
‘That’s why this message is not just to black people, you know what I’m saying? This message is to everybody. This man is really trying to turn us against each other and put us in a situation. America messed up.’
Diddy added that ‘white men like Trump need to be banished.’
The comments were resurfaced by 50 Cent, who shared them after he said he would make sure Trump did not pardon Diddy.
The disgraced music mogul campaigned for Democrats in 2020 and repeatedly made the comment about an upcoming race war.
He wrote in October, 2020: ‘The NUMBER ONE priority is to get Trump out of office. HE HAS TO GO.
‘We can’t allow this man to continue to try and DIVIDE US. The people that have the most responsibility and should be SCARED TO DEATH of this man are white people. WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A RACE WAR.’
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Witness previously claimed Diddy ‘skinned a rival’s dog’
Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan sued the rap mogul for $10million in 2024, accusing him of sexual battery and physical abuse.
She claimed Diddy force-fed her ecstasy and during a photoshoot told her ‘I’m the mother******g devil. I could kill you’.
Bongolan’s lawsuit further included stories she heard while working with Combs, including that he threatened to blow up rapper Kid Cudi’s car after he slept with Ventura.
Her complaint also featured a rumor that Diddy previously ‘skinned a rival’s dog’, although she admitted she did not know if there was any truth to the story.
WATCH: Resurfaced video shows Diddy humiliating Cassie over BET performance
A video of Diddy berating Cassie over a less-than-stellar performance of her hit song Me & U on BET in 2006 has been making the rounds as his trial continues in Manhattan.
Cassie had an infamously poor performance on the iconic BET show 106 and park; she said on the stand that Diddy supported her after it, which made them closer.
‘Cassie right here, she had a a whack show… she had a pretty whack show on BET,’ the music mogul said as the singer nervously smiled next to him.
‘She did not perform at the level of the Bad Boy excellence… but at Bad Boy we’re with our artists through their growth periods.. through their bad shows and good shows.’
Who will testify on Thursday?
Jane, the third alleged victim brought by prosecutors to the stand, will testify on Thursday.
She will be testifying under a pseudonym after the state requested that her identity be kept private.
Prosecutors say Diddy ‘used lies, drugs, threats, and violence’ to coerce Jane into so-called freak-offs – sexual performances where she would be forced to have sex with male escorts as Diddy watched.
Cassie’s friend Bryana Bongolan recounts terrifying knife incident with Diddy
Witness Bryana Bongolan told the court that she once woke up at Cassie’s apartment in Los Angeles with ‘Puff banging on the door.’
She said Cassie left the bedroom and Diddy eventually got inside the house.
‘I remember seeing a knife get thrown in her direction,’ Bongolan said.
Cassie then threw the knife back at him, according to the witness.
The knife did not hit him, and he left shortly after. Bongolan did not call he police because she was scared of Diddy and everything she was seeing.
How Diddy counted out $100k from a brown paper bag to buy Cassie beating video
A security guard told how Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs counted out $100,000 from a brown paper bag to buy the only copy of a video showing him beating up his ex-girlfriend on Tuesday.
Eddy Garcia, who worked at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, told in vivid detail how the hip hop mogul used a counting machine to add up the money for the bribe in 2016.
Garcia said that Diddy called him ‘Eddy, my angel’ for deleting it from the servers and giving it to him on a USB stick.
Fashion designer Bryana Bongolan confirms Diddy held her over a 17-story balcony
Taking the stand as a witness, Bongolan, 33, told the court on Wednesday she is the creative director for her own art agency in September, 2016
‘I was held over a 17-story balcony [by Diddy],’ she told the court just moments after taking the stand.
Bongolan, who is a close friend of Cassie Ventura, said Diddy then ‘Threw me onto the balcony furniture.’
‘I had a bruise on the back of my leg and back and neck pain,’ she said of the aftermath of the alleged assault.
‘I had night terrors and paranoia and I screamed in my sleep.’
Diddy trial getting a later start Thursday
The trial will get going at 10.30am on Thursday instead of the usual 8.30am.
It will begin with the defense’s cross examination of Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan, 33, a friend of Combs’ former girlfriend and main accuser Cassie Ventura.
A witness that will speak about the technicality of some text messages will take the stand after Bongolan.
Diddy’s third alleged victim, Jane, will be up after the technician.
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