Donald Trump is ‘seriously considering’ a pardon for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs as the disgraced rap mogul awaits his sentencing in a Brooklyn jail.

As the judge gets ready to decide the sentence for the former producer on prostitution-related charges, a source told Deadline that Trump is contemplating granting a pardon.

Diddy has been acquitted on three of his most serious charges. 

Insiders told the outlet that the idea had advanced from ‘just another Trump weave to an actionable event.’ 

The 55-year-old business mogul was recently acquitted of sex-trafficking and racketeering charges, but was found guilty on two counts related to transporting individuals for prostitution.

Combs is set to receive his sentencing on October 3 and faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. 

A presidential pardon has been talked of since the beginning of Combs’ trial, and Trump even indicated in May that he was open to the idea. 

The President said, when asked on the matter in the Oval Office, that ‘nobody’s asked 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,’ he added. 

Reports suggest that the President is ‘seriously considering’ a pardon for Combs, who is currently in jail awaiting his sentencing after being cleared of his most severe charges.

The 55-year-old rap mogul was found not-guilty of sex-trafficking and racketeering earlier this month, but was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution

Combs is set to receive his sentencing on October 3 and faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison

‘First of all, I’d look at what’s happening. And I haven’t been watching it too closely, although it’s certainly getting a lot of coverage,’ Trump continued.

‘I haven’t seen him, I haven’t spoken to him in years. He used to really like me a lot, but I think when I ran for politics he sort of, that relationship busted up from what I read. I don’t know. He didn’t tell me that, but I’d read some nasty statements in the paper all of a sudden.’

‘So, I don’t know. I would certainly look at the facts. if I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me it wouldn’t have any impact,’ he concluded.

Attorney John Koufos, who recently met with Trump’s pardon ‘tsar’ Alice Marie Johnson and pardon attorney Ed Martin, told the Daily Mail elements of the case fit with Trump’s push against ‘overcriminalization’ and ‘weaponization’ in charging.

Trump was himself charged with a racketeering conspiracy in the Georgia election interference case, and he has long railed against what he calls weaponization of the criminal justice system. 

Analysts watching the Diddy case have questioned whether the government overcharged him, and Koufos wondered how the defendant could be engaging in a RICO conspiracy by themselves.

‘Had he been convicted of a RICO [charge], you’d be looking at something different. The fact that he was convicted of things that it seems that he pretty obviously did probably mitigates against a grant of clemency,’ he said, nothing there was ‘nothing particularly sympathetic’ about the defendant.

The avenue for a potential pardon appears to run through Johnson and Martin, who previously served as Trump’s interim top US Attorney in the District of Columbia.

A presidential pardon has been talked of since the beginning of Combs’ trial, and Trump even indicated in May that he was open to the idea

Trump has previously called Diddy a ‘good friend’

Trump has long championed his signing of the First Step Act, which reauthorized Second Chance legislation meant to boost successful reentry by former prisoners into the population.

He has also been open to pardoning political allies, as he did when pardoning former Republican Rep. Michael Grimm and former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojavech. Blagojevich promptly called him a ‘great effing guy.’

But rapper 50 Cent, Curtis James, is a longtime Diddy rival who has been occasionally posting about the case online – even while saying he would urge Trump not to pardon Diddy.

50 Cent posted on Instagram: ‘He said some really bad things about Trump, it’s not ok. Im gonna reach out so he knows how I feel about this guy,’ Vulture reported.

‘Donald doesn’t take well to disrespect, and doesn’t forget who chooses to go against him,’ he wrote in another. ‘while working tirelessly to make America great again there is no room for distraction. He would consider pardoning anyone who was being mistreated not Puffy Daddy.’