Inside Diddy's Federal Sex-Trafficking Trial

What A Day

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you're a certain age, Sean' Diddy' Combs was inescapable during some really formative years of your music-listening habits. The entertainment mogul and producer showed up in music videos, hosted a reality show, and had a clothing line. His label Bad Boy Records helped launch the careers of iconic names in Hip-Hop and R&B, like Mary J. Blige, Usher and Notorious B.I.G. Now, he's standing trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, and faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, if convicted. Anne Branigin, a staff writer for The Washington Post has been covering the trial from the Manhattan courthouse. She joins us to talk about the latest developments in the case and what's still to come. And in headlines: The U.S. government officially accepted a $400 million Boeing 747 from Qatar, President Donald Trump lectured the president of South Africa about a 'white genocide' in his country that's not happening, and Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly passed away at 75 after a battle with esophageal cancer.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, May 22nd.
0:04.2	I'm Jane Cozden, and this is What a Day.
0:06.2	The show asking if Elon Musk knows what it means to step away from politics.
0:11.2	Sure, he said he'd back off from political funding, but he was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
0:16.1	And President Donald Trump said he was behind the Afrikaner's refugee plan.
0:20.4	I don't want to get Elon involved.
0:22.5	That's all I have to do.
0:23.6	Get him into another thing.
0:25.4	But Elon happens to be from South Africa.
0:28.4	This is what Elon wanted.
0:30.3	This is what Elon wanted.
0:32.8	Maybe step away means something different for chainsaw enthusiasts.
0:38.8	On today's show, President Donald Trump, I mean, excuse me, I need to correct myself,
0:44.4	the United States government officially accepts a $400 million-Katari Boeing 747.
0:52.2	And Trump lectures the president of South Africa with fake news about a white genocide in South
0:57.7	Africa.
0:58.8	But first, we're taking a break from the literal and figurative hot mess that is our nation's
1:03.6	capital and the knuckleheads running the government to talk about the federal sex
1:07.7	trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Combs, aka Diddy.
1:11.7	And a warning to our listeners.
1:13.5	We're going to talk a lot about sex, abuse, and violence in this episode.
1:17.5	Some people might find the subject difficult, or if you've got kids around you, maybe this
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