Donald Trump has been reconsidering his ideas on pardoning Diddy; the President tells NewsMax that it’s turn into “more difficult” due to the mogul’s “hostile” habits amid his 2020 Presidential marketing campaign.

While Trump believes that the now-disgraced mogul is “half-innocent,” his place on probably pardoning Diddy — who was convicted on prostitution expenses in May — has seemingly shifted. Five years in the past, the Bad Boy founder informed Charlamagne tha God in an interview, that “white men like Trump” and should be “banished. “

During the interview, Trump remembers his relationship with Diddy as “very friendly.” He continued, “I got along with him great, and [he] seemed like a nice guy. I didn’t know him well.” However, right this moment, their relationship is strained.

“He made some terrible statements,” Trump Says

He added,”…When I ran for workplace, he was very hostile. It’s laborious, ? We’re human beings. And we don’t wish to have issues cloud our judgment, proper? But while you knew somebody and also you had been high quality, and you then run for workplace, and he made some horrible statements. So I don’t know …. it makes it tougher to do.”

Back in May, throughout a press convention, when requested about pardoning Diddy, Trump stated he’d need to “look” into what transpired within the case. At the time, he revealed regardless of the trial in opposition to Diddy being extremely publicized, he hadn’t been following the case. As he lately famous throughout his NewsMax interview, his friendship with Diddy took a flip after he gained an curiosity in politics.

“He used to really like me a lot, but I think when I ran for politics, it busted up that relationship from what I read.” Despite that, Trump stated he would take a look at the “facts” concerned and decide based mostly on that.