The Trial of Diddy
Bonus: Diddy's Lawyers respond to new indictment & Trump gets involved
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
When politics and showbusiness collide! In this bonus episode, our host Kayla Brantley and Senior US Political Editor Charlie Spearing discuss the latest developments in the Diddy trial, including new allegations of sex trafficking, political implications, and calls for transparency from influential figures. We also get a statement from Diddy's representatives regarding the new indictment. They explore the intersection of politics and celebrity culture, the role of transparency in governance, and the ongoing legal battles faced by Sean Diddy Combs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What new allegations have been made against Diddy?
Hey, I'm Kayla Brantley, reporter at large for the Daily Mail in Manhattan. And we have a quick update episode this week because on Thursday, prosecutors filed a new indictment accusing Diddy of sex trafficking two additional women. So originally he was accused of sex trafficking one woman. And now prosecutors have filed a new indictment.
Also, there have been calls from people in Washington to release the Diddy files, to release the name of all those involved in Diddy's alleged schemes. So we're speaking with senior political reporter at the Daily Mail, Charlie Spearing, who has been covering this story where Washington intersects with Hollywood. So thanks for being here, Charlie.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Diddy files?
Hi, Kayla. How are you?
I'm good. I'm good. And I saw your report. It's like a crossing of both worlds. Now we have Ted Cruz jumping into the conversation of Diddy and you are a political reporter. So this seemed like the perfect crossover. So we would love for you to talk about your latest reporting.
Right. The election of Donald Trump has really brought into focus, how much can we find out about these cases, about the Jeffrey Epstein case, about the Diddy case? We know that he signed executive orders as soon as he became president to release all the details about the JFK assassination.
Chapter 3: How has Trump influenced transparency in legal cases?
That's still a couple months away, the full report and release, but it's something that he has put into motion. That has a lot of Americans wondering, what else can we find out if If we have this president committed to transparency, who else can we get details on and when can we expect that?
Yeah. So now you have people like Ted Cruz who are calling on Donald Trump to release all the files related to Diddy's trial. So what needs to happen to get those files released?
Chapter 4: What is Ted Cruz's role in the Diddy case?
Well, the president has to take a personal interest in it and sign a similar executive order ordering the various departments in charge of this prosecution to release the documents. It's one thing with the Jeffrey Epstein files, which is key on a lot of people's radars, but he's already...
been sort of he is you know already his life is over the case is pretty much over so you can release those details what's interesting about the diddy trial is it has yet to take place so it's probably unlikely that the justice department will release these details
Ted Cruz is channeling all the Americans who feel just like the Epstein trial had a long list of clients, the wealthy, the rich people on the East Coast. The Diddy Files is perceived by Americans as a list of all the compromised celebrities on the West Coast. That's what he's channeling here, the interest by people across the country who believe that
Chapter 5: Why might the Diddy files be released after the trial?
The elites on both coasts are corrupt, and we just need to know the details and the truth. And that is sort of what Ted Cruz is channeling. He was approached by reporters about the Epstein files, and it was very interesting that he volunteered the information about the Diddy files, showing that he's very in tune with what the American people are talking about.
And from your experience covering Trump, do you think this is something that he would be on board with?
It'll be interesting. I think first off the list will have to be the Epstein files. This is something that a lot of people are talking about, including many of the people who talk on these podcasts that he really embraced during the election. The Diddy files, not so much. If we see the release of the Epstein files, I think that
people interested in the Diddy case could expect that that would be next. But I have to think that the release of those files would have to take place only after he's convicted of something, after the trial, because you wouldn't necessarily want to bust up that trial by releasing all the details ahead of time before his defense.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Epstein files for Trump?
What's interesting to me is that we have videos and flight logs of all the interactions between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. So I would think that, you know, unless Donald Trump knows for a fact that there's nothing very incriminating there, that he wouldn't want that to be released.
The people on the left, including some of the reporters, asking Republicans about these files are saying, if Donald Trump is really committed to transparency, why won't he release the Epstein files? Certainly, those on the left think that Trump is compromised by the Epstein files, even though there's no evidence at this point suggesting that there's anything criminal.
Trump has addressed these files. He's open to the idea, but he still is on the fence. He hasn't necessarily cited whether or not You know, whether Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in jail or whether, as people allege, and he hasn't sided necessarily with the people who believe that he committed suicide.
So he's kind of open to the idea, but he's certainly not sort of it's not on the list of something that he is 100 percent going to engage with at this point.
In your story, while Trump might not be the one saying, you know, release the Diddy trials, you have his pick for FBI director, Kash Patel. You have Ted Cruz, as I mentioned before, and you have Elon Musk, who have all come out and said and have said, you know, release the Diddy files, release this list. Is there an actual list that exists, do you think?
It's hard to say, but you have to imagine that there's details of all the people who may have attended these notorious freak-off parties, whether or not each one, each opportunity, each person there committed these criminal acts is uncertain at this point, but there's a lot of speculation there.
But what's interesting is what, you know, the, what Musk and cash Patel and Ted Cruz are sort of channeling right now is that it's cool to be transparent and it's cool to have government officials calling for transparency. And at this point it's, it's, it's good to be on the right side of transparency and, and, sort of teasing details of these conspiracy theories and why can't we know?
Why doesn't the government tell us? Because that's sort of the right place to be in order to gain in popularity and political power at this point.
Also, it's Friday, January 31st. It's been 11 days of Trump's presidency and it feels like so many things have happened and he's signed a bunch of orders and this Seems like, would you say that this is an order that is meaningful to people or just something that kind of is for like shock value?
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