Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has pleaded not guilty to a list of sex trafficking charges.
The 54-year-old was arrested in Manhattan by federal agents yesterday, following a year in which his career was derailed by several lawsuits accusing him of physical and sexual abuse.
New York Attorney Damien Williams alleges Combs created and ran a "criminal enterprise” through his business empire.
He says he ran sex performances, which he called 'freak offs', for days at a time.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that prosecutors are opposing bail for Combs, but his lawyers have submitted a note to the judge saying that he’s never evaded, avoided, eluded, or run from a challenge in his life.
He said they’re offering an extensive bail package has been offered, including a $50 million bond, the passports of his daughters and mother, the equity of his home and his mother’s place in Florida, and home detention with GPS monitoring.
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Stateside Richard Arrel on Morning Good What you make? Where are we at with the investigation? Well, Prisident Biden says the Secret Service needs more resources as this latest assassination attempt on former prison Trump as being assessed and it certainly needs to be gone over closely, doesn't it. Former President Trump wrote on his social media that the effort by the Secret Service was quote absolutely outstanding.
Was it?
The maniac with the semi automatic, even though he has a lengthy criivinal record, had been sitting in the bushes, we hear for about twelve hours at least they think. So where was his car with it parked just near the golf course since they were in the morning, Well, we don't know yet. Thankfully, the Secret Service agent saw the barrel of the weapon pointing through the thick bushes and trees and open fire before this individual was in direct side of Trump. However, was this a one hundred percent success since the would be assassin was not able to get off a shot or was it a close call? There was more a case of good luck. The alleged want to be assassin was about four hundred meters from Trump, the range of his semi automatic with the scope that he had was about two and a half times that distance. Experts that would have been an easy shot. Wunce Trump was in view, which was only moments away. So President Biden is calling for security to be bolstered. Trump gets less security than a sitting president, but this is a different time, a very superheated political campaign. Even the acting head of the Secret Service, Ronald Rose, says the agency needs a complete overhaul. Well that at best happened quickly. The accused government has been charged so far with a couple of weapons counts, a legal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Flora's governor, Ron de Santa says he thinks the man should face state charges of murder, which could bring a mandatory life prison term, and more charges do seem likely. Meantime, Trump called for unity and toning down the political retric when he was shot in July. Not this time. He and his associates are blaming the Democrats, and he claims are running a campaign of hatred for calling Trump a threat to democracy, and his deputy J. D. Vance is saying, you.
Know the big difference between conservatives liberals is that we no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months. I'd say that's pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out.
This echoes what Trump back at Elon Musk posted the other day when he wondered in a tweet, why quote no one is even trying to assassinate Biden and Harris. Mask later called that a joke and took that post down. Here's a brief sampling of Trump though from the just the past seven days.
You can end up in World War three.
She's a Marxist, communist, fascist, socialist. We must stop her country destroying liberal agenda once and for all. She's a threat to democracy. New York Times reporter Peter Baker Wright slists today in an editorial quote, Trump long has favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up Hicckler's starting to shoot looters and undocumented migrants, mocking a near fatal attack on the husband of the Democratic House speakers, suggesting that they generally he deems disloyal be executed, and on it goes forty nine days to the election ers indeed, and then we come to Didy and I suspect these wheels are going to turn for a while. Yep, this is lurid the wrapper Sean did he Combs? P? Did he puff? Whatever? Is in court today after federal prosecutors accused him of sex trafficking and racketeering. He could face fifteen years to life in jail. With these charges, which include allegations of kidnapping, trafficking, arson, bribery, other elements. Combes lawyers say they will fight all of these charges. While prosecutor Damian Williams says did he would organize sex shows which included many of those elements.
Combs allegedly planned and control the sex performances, which he called freakoffs, and he often electronically recorded them. The freakoffs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple commercial sex workers, and often involved a variety of narcotics such as catamine, actasy and GHB.
Also, Williams says of the situations and Combs.
Didn't get his way. He was violent, and he subjected victims of physical, emotional, and verbal abuse so that they would participate in the freakofs and that COM's hit kicked through objects at and drag victims at times by their hair.
Prosecutors say others also might face charges over some of this. They are opposing bail for Combs, whose lawyers have written a note to the judge today saying Sean Combs has never evaded, avoided, eluded, or run from a challenge in his life. Be a challenge. They are offering an extensive bail package that includes a fifty million dollar bond, the passports of his daughters and mother, the equity of the home of his mother's place in Florida, and home detention with GPS monitoring shoes.
All right, we'll see you Friday.
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