Trump 'should not pardon' Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Megyn Kelly says

Megyn Kelly is speaking out to urge President Donald Trump against potentially pardoning Sean "Diddy" Combs.

In an X post on July 30, Kelly said that "Trump should not pardon Diddy" because "he doesn't deserve it" referencing a Deadline report published a day earlier – featuring unnamed sources – that considered the possibility of a pardon.

"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 o

USA TODAY reached out to Combs' team for comment.

Trump weighed in on the possibility of pardoning Combs on May 30 in the Oval Office. "Nobody's asked" about a pardon, the president said. "But I know people are thinking about it. I know they're thinking about it. I think some people have been very close to asking." Trump added, "I haven't spoken to him in years. He really liked me a lot."

Kelly and Trump have a complicated relationship of their own that spans more than a decade.

Despite falling out in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, which Trump won, the pair have since patched things up: They embraced at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in November, where the former Fox News star proudly endorsed him for president in an enthusiastic speech.

Ex-Trump staffer Hope Hicks joins Megyn Kelly's media company as COO

Pressure toward the president has mounted recently as questions arise about his past relationship with former friend and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who sexually abused underage girls and died by suicide in August 2019 under circumstances that have since become the source of widespread conspiracy theories.

But Trump has shown a willingness in the past to pardon imprisoned celebrities, including during his first term and now in his second. In May, Trump announced pardons for reality TV couple Todd and Julie Chrisley and rapper NBA YoungBoy – also known by his legal name Kentrell Gaulden and artistically as YoungBoy Never Broke Again. Near the end of his first term in 2021, Trump pardoned rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs argues for jail release on $50 million bond ahead of sentencing

Combs legal team argued again this week for his release from federal prison, nearly one month after the embattled music mogul was acquitted of the most serious charges in his sex-crimes trial.

According to legal documents reviewed by USA TODAY, Combs' lawyers asked Judge Arun Subramanian on July 29 to release Combs on a $50 million bond and allow him to live in his Miami mansion — instead of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn — as he awaits sentencing in October.

Contributing: David Oliver, Marco della Cava