Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking charges and bail package

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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
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

(00:44):
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

(01:05):
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

(01:25):
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.

(01:47):
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.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
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.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
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.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
You can end up in World War three.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
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,

(02:58):
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

(03:20):
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.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
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.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Also, Williams says of the situations and Combs.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
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.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
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

(04:45):
home of his mother's place in Florida, and home detention
with GPS monitoring shoes.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
All right, we'll see you Friday.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Appreciate it. Richard Arnold's Stateside. For more from the Mic
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