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The Diddy troll is everything wrong with society. Diddy walking almost completely unscathed tells you everything. Showing so clearly that we're now in a world where, with enough money, power, and connections, you can just do whatever you want, no matter the consequences. As Diddy is just one of many high-up elites that can walk away from courtrooms without ever facing real justice, which is such a huge surprise.
But the Diddy verdict is more outrageous than most. This isn't just like OJ Simpson, as Diddy is now acquitted of the most serious charges despite overwhelming evidence of all of his evil activities, let alone all the other stuff that he's been accused of for the last few decades. His actions were so bad and horrific that even one of his biggest lawyers quit as he just couldn't serve him. That was an unprecedented move at this echelon of the legal industry. And yet this whole time, Diddy just knew that he was too powerful to ever be touched legally, that is. And in court, he always just seems so relaxed the entire time as he knew the game was rigged to begin with. As people with his power, money, and maybe even alleged blackmail are always above the law. One law for thee, another for me. And at this point, with the recent verdict, it's expected that he'll just walk away free. Whether that be because the judges were in on it, or they were caught with baby oil. Who even knows at this point?
When the verdict was announced, Diddy's family and his lawyers were quick to celebrate. Despite facing up to 20 years in prison, a quitter on the trafficking and racketeering charges was more than they could ever hope for. Now, it was always going to be tricky for the government to prove their case completely. Racketeering charges, which were originally designed to take down the mafia, are notoriously hard to make stick. While unsuited for dealing with individual criminals, they're meant to take down whole enterprises and cartels. To prove them, the government needed to show two things. Firstly, that there were at least two cases of specific federal crimes committed within a 10-year period. Then they needed to make a case that they happened within the context of a larger criminal conspiracy that Diddy was the mastermind of a huge, larger organization. Specifically, they tried to pin both human trafficking charges on him. They needed to show, through the testimony of Casey Ventura and the other key witness, Jane, that this had occurred, but the defense sabotaged it.
While we'll never know exactly why the jury acquitted, it's likely got lots to do with how they poked holes in their testimony. The prosecution had what people have called a meticulous, almost academic case. They showed clear cases where they alleged this happened, and then they went into excruciating detail. But most importantly, they put a lot of pressure on the jury to match up this evidence with the idea of Diddy as a criminal mastermind rather than just as a powerful but flawed individual. This was where they stumbled and where Diddy's defense team struck their blow. The legal team did everything they could to sabotage this case. And to do this, they didn't deny lots of Diddy's other crimes, the ones he wasn't on trial for in federal court. They accepted the idea that he was actually predatory, that he was abusive, that he had a coercive, dominating relationship with these women, and also with the other people in his orbit. Clearly shown that this guy is definitely a bad person. But while Diddy certainly held a lot of control over his world, they casually threw out the idea that he was running some kind of criminal enterprise.
A lot of this came down to texts they dug up between Diddy and other key witnesses. They showed Casey telling Diddy that, "I'm always ready to freak off Lola Lo." In another text after a party, she told Diddy, "Yeah, I like those times. I love when we make love after the last time was so good." The prosecution was hoping that the jury would see this as part of the coercive relationship. They thought they would read between the lines and see them as the words of someone who was afraid of being negative about their experiences. It was clearly too much pressure to put on them. Meanwhile, the defense's story that this was all just part of Diddy's private life was a lot easier to swallow, no matter how crazy the actual reality of this was. They even delivered this so much more casually, talking to the jury as if they were having a conversation instead of a trial.
Ironically, they even borrowed a trick from the mafia. Diddy was made to look as old and gray as possible, sitting in the courtroom dressed up like a man in his 70s rather than his 50s. All while he was eerily calm, as if he wasn't facing decades in prison. This was all part of a campaign to sow doubt in this criminal mastermind idea. The prosecution's analytic attacks didn't stand up to this more emotional case made by the defense team. The government coincidentally overreached, and they paid a huge price as now Diddy can easily walk away with just a few years, even just a few months at this point, confirming what nearly everyone already knew about the American justice system. It's all about money. Diddy's money and power gave him the resources to employ a massive, well-funded, intelligent defense. These teams have deep connections with the judges and every aspect of the legal industry. They can easily pull the strings and are often friends with the people they're dealing with. No public defender could have towed the line that they towed. Regular people accused with much less supporting evidence have been given life sentences for this sort of thing.
Meanwhile, Diddy's millions meant he could play the system and get off at the absolute minimum in punishment. But there was so much evidence that painted Diddy in such a bad light: the raids and what they found, the mountains of substances, baby oil, firearms, the months of witness testimony, the actual video evidence of the abuse; it all meant next to nothing in the face of just a well-funded defense that knew exactly where to put the pressure. And Diddy being found not guilty of racketeering also set a very scary legal precedent. Now it's going to make it so much harder for any elite to be ever charged with racketeering. We see this time and time again, almost every year at this point, that the elites work together in a club and you're not in it. Mr. Jeff also got the same treatment through his ties to presidents, royalty, and top executives. And possibly even most sad, he avoided real punishment for years despite multiple accusers and evidence. His 2008 plea deal was notoriously lenient. He was just given a 13-month sentence and allowed to leave jail during the day with no real accountability for trafficking minors.
And Diddy's been accused of all sorts of similar things: taking people out, a criminal enterprise manipulating the entire music industry and blackmail. And while the Diddy case isn't fully over, the partial acquittal on racketeering and sex trafficking fits a similar theme. The biggest charges often don't stick when the defendant is rich and connected. You can operate in plain sight for years, protected by money, fame, and silence. God knows how many other people are doing this that we just have no idea about, as these massive public cases are some of the only rare times where the public can actually see it. Only coming about when it's just too obvious for the entire world to ignore. But more often than not, it's completely covered up. Diddy had all sorts of celebrities coming out, all the proof of the freakoff parties, the multiple civil suits, video leaks, and yet he still gets away with almost all of this.
And now with Diddy likely walking free, lots of celebrities will have to be looking over their shoulders after this. "I know if he walks, you know, I'mma be target number one, which is fine. I'm used to that. You know, it's kind of exciting for me. Is that exciting or is that slightly scary?" I mean, all the celebrities involved, all the people in the industry like Kid Cuddy and all those who try to take Diddy down will now face huge consequences of going against someone at this elite level in society, and the repercussions will be completely hidden away. But after all of this disturbing stuff, even having sleepovers with a young Justin Bieber and hosting his own Love Island where he took people off the radar, all of this can be done with just enough money. And now Diddy has absolutely no legal fear. He's just proven what we all know, that all of this goes on behind the closed doors of the elites for decades. And with enough influence, laws and morals just don't apply to them.