Sean “Diddy” Combs, currently serving a four-year jail term for offences related to prostitution, has reportedly sought a presidential pardon from Donald Trump, a request the US president says he has no intention of granting.
In an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday, Trump said he was not considering clemency for the hip-hop star or several other prominent figures, including Venezuela’s former leader, Nicolas Maduro.
Combs, 56, was convicted in July on two counts of transporting individuals across state lines for prostitution, although a jury cleared him of more serious charges involving sex trafficking and racketeering. 
Trump confirmed that Combs had written to him requesting a pardon but made clear he was uninterested in acting on it. Asked about Maduro—who was recently captured by US forces and now faces drug trafficking charges—Trump replied, “No, I don’t see that.”
The president also recalled that he granted clemency in November to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been serving a 45-year sentence for drug-related crimes.
Trump further ruled out pardons for disgraced cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried, sentenced to 25 years in prison, and former Democratic senator Robert Menendez, who is serving 11 years for bribery.
Responding to questions about Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, Trump said, “I haven’t been asked about it.”
On his inauguration day, Trump issued pardons to more than 1,500 individuals convicted or charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, and has since extended clemency to several loyalists.
