Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious Day 28 of the federal sex

trafficking trial against Sean Diddy Combs. And it was, well, it was relentless, shall we say.

We're talking about explicit text messages, graphic videos, coordinated travel with escorts,

drug menus, baby oil, and receipts.

So many receipts, like hours and hours of receipts. If you're into this, like if you're really

into proving a case down to the arcane letter of the law, this was the day for you. Because it was

like charts and graphs and receipts and paperwork, right? Mixed in with a lot of dirty, sexy messages and evidence.

So the prosecution was racing through mountains and mountains of the digital stuff, all the

digital evidence, trying to prove that what looked like luxury and excess was actually

enterprise-fueled exploitation.

But the biggest shocker of the entire day was when Diddy's lawyers confirmed that he ain't

going to be calling a single witness, and he's not going to be taking the stand either.

Excuse me, baking powder.

I mean, honestly, I thought for sure that Diddy's lawyers

would trot out a whole bunch of Diddy Acolytes who would say he was the greatest. I never saw

any of this. The women were into it. There was no coercion, no forced trafficking, none of this stuff, right?

But there's two things I can think of. Number one,

he doesn't think that prosecutors have done the job. Number two, he doesn't have those people.

But what this means is that the testimony is almost over. And closing arguments are like just days

away. Like I can see the finish line.

And later in this episode, I'm going to need you to pour a drink, buckle up, whatever it is you do to chill.

Because we are diving deep into the pages of leaked text messages that were just released by the government over the weekend.

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