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Speaker 2: Hey guys, it's Laura the Rows back here again for
Speaker 2: another breakdown outside of the courthouse for Sean Diddycomb's trial.
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Speaker 2: and the conversations that shake the room. Now we're doing
Speaker 2: a behind the scenes of the grind check in. I
Speaker 2: would say today, outside of this courtroom, I'm feeling a
Speaker 2: bit undecided. And I think the undecided feeling comes because
Speaker 2: you guys know, whenever I am here and I'm in court,
Speaker 2: after I hear the testimonies, after I see some of
Speaker 2: the things that are presented, or all of the things
Speaker 2: that are presented, I like to then give y'all information,
Speaker 2: but also I like to walk away with feeling like, Okay,
Speaker 2: if I was a juror today, just based on everything
Speaker 2: I've seen up until this point today, where would I
Speaker 2: land leaving court?
Speaker 1: Today, Brendan Paul has been on the stand.
Speaker 2: He has been examined by the government, by the prosecution.
Speaker 2: He's also been examined by the defense, which his Zitty's
Speaker 2: Team and cross and recross and crisscross and all of
Speaker 2: the things with Seawan colmbs like a lot of the
Speaker 2: other witnesses, right, But what he's doing is he's more
Speaker 2: so speaking directly to things that are trying to build
Speaker 2: a picture. And the picture that the government is trying
Speaker 2: to build with him is that this whole thing was
Speaker 2: a huge enterprise that wrapped around one man, his money
Speaker 2: and his power. They were going through conversations and emails
Speaker 2: and text messages that allege that.
Speaker 1: You know Brendan Paul, would you know who?
Speaker 2: On the stand, admitted that he would be responsible for
Speaker 2: setting up hotel nights, which were the free Cross that
Speaker 2: was the twenty twenty four to twenty twenty three later
Speaker 2: down the line name of these freak off incidents, but
Speaker 2: he had testified like he would be in charge of
Speaker 2: setting them up. He testified that he would also be
Speaker 2: in charge of breaking them down allegedly, he says, he
Speaker 2: alleges that that direct command came from KK who is
Speaker 2: Christina Karan, who is you know, was one of Diddy's
Speaker 2: go to head of operations in everything.
Speaker 1: Right now, when.
Speaker 2: He's talking to the government, he's talking about being in
Speaker 2: charge of these hotel or these king Knights, he talks
Speaker 2: about it very casually. He says that, you know, he
Speaker 2: would have to come there, he would set things up,
Speaker 2: he would buy supplies for the actual nights. When he
Speaker 2: would buy the supplies, he would do it on his
Speaker 2: personal credit card or his personal from his personal money,
Speaker 2: his personal account. They then the government asked him, well,
Speaker 2: how did you how are you compensated for that? He says,
Speaker 2: we would we would get it back, you know from
Speaker 2: the team. If anybody's ever done an expense report, you
Speaker 2: know exactly what he describes. He said that he would
Speaker 2: submit the receipts, he would have to talk about why
Speaker 2: he had to purchase these things, and then it would
Speaker 2: take a little minute, but he would then get the
Speaker 2: money back. He said that when he would have to
Speaker 2: submit these things, he would he alleges, he would have
Speaker 2: to submit them via email. On the email would be
Speaker 2: KK Christina Kuran and a woman from a company named TriStar.
Speaker 2: When he was asked what was TriStar. He said, the
Speaker 2: government is going in there to Simoni with Brendan Paul
Speaker 2: is they are trying to establish the fact that all
Speaker 2: these things were happening. The money from this company was
Speaker 2: the backing, was the front money for all of these
Speaker 2: things that were happening. And not only that, but also
Speaker 2: there were employees who were involved.
Speaker 1: In all these things at every level.
Speaker 2: And that wasn't just something that coincident, coincidentally happened every
Speaker 2: now and then, as we've heard prior to and as
Speaker 2: the defense has tried to you know, angle every now
Speaker 2: and then, like you know, things would be dropped off allegedly,
Speaker 2: or hotels would need to be booked or you know,
Speaker 2: but this was mister Combe's personal time. It's how the
Speaker 2: defense has been picturing this or setting this up. With
Speaker 2: Brendan Paul. They have him on the stand and he's like, no,
Speaker 2: this was my job duty. They even brought up a
Speaker 2: schedule of his right. He would be giving a written
Speaker 2: schedule of like what his day would look like. He
Speaker 2: would then put the schedule in his notepad in his phone.
Speaker 2: So they brought up the notepad in his phone. This
Speaker 2: is an alleged schedule set by kk you know who
Speaker 2: was his head exec on Diddy's team. She's calling the
Speaker 2: shots and in the schedule it actually had set up
Speaker 2: for hotel nights. So the the government is establishing like
Speaker 2: this was not just a incidental you know, maybe he
Speaker 2: got close and trusted on assistant and allowed that assistant
Speaker 2: to do these things thing. This is something that went
Speaker 2: down that was a part of the job description basically.
Speaker 2: Like so, then the government is going through different conversations
Speaker 2: with him, and they then start to talk about, you know,
Speaker 2: they bring in the drug use. Well, now, once this
Speaker 2: has happened, and once the government decides that they're gonna
Speaker 2: sit back and let the defense come in and do
Speaker 2: their thing, Brian Still is on defense. He stands up
Speaker 2: and he starts having a conversation with Brendan Paul. So
Speaker 2: the way that he starts is he's establishing the fact
Speaker 2: that Brendan Paul is a very smart individual. Brendan Paul
Speaker 2: is an individual who not only went to college, but
Speaker 2: he played you know, sports in college.
Speaker 1: He played for a very reptable.
Speaker 2: Well known athlete while in college. And at first I'm
Speaker 2: trying to figure out where Brian Still was going, and
Speaker 2: then I realized I'm like, Okay, this is him. He's
Speaker 2: setting up Brendan's character because he's about to use Brendan
Speaker 2: Paul as a as a way to get out of
Speaker 2: this whole enterprise conversation, right at least one of the
Speaker 2: witnesses to do that. So he's establishing him as his character,
Speaker 2: who is you know, very makes great decisions, has a
Speaker 2: great work ethic, has you know, been raised to be
Speaker 2: morally like sound and you know you're here to tell
Speaker 2: the truth correct, And he's like, yes, they mentioned the
Speaker 2: fact that you know, mister Paul was given an immunity order.
Speaker 1: But even though he was given an immunity.
Speaker 2: Order, He's like, you know, I was going to tell
Speaker 2: the truth here regardless. And Brian still does a good
Speaker 2: job of establishing all of that character. And then they
Speaker 2: get into the real things. So then Brian still is
Speaker 2: like asking about he asks about a ton of things.
Speaker 2: He asks about you know, the hotel nights in these
Speaker 2: different things, and he gets it in there that you know,
Speaker 2: again did he seems like what that was his personal time, right,
Speaker 2: trying to separate the two. But then they go to
Speaker 2: the day that Brendan Paul was arrested.
Speaker 1: Now this was a big deal.
Speaker 2: This was a big story because after the Cassie lawsuit dropped,
Speaker 2: and then after the Cassie So Cassie lost to drops.
Speaker 1: Things are crazy.
Speaker 2: Things are crazy things and crazy, and then the Cassie
Speaker 2: video from CNN drops. If you guys remember, and I
Speaker 2: remember because we were reporting on it at the time
Speaker 2: at TMC. If you remember, there was photos of Diddy
Speaker 2: and a man. They were traveling to the Bahamas with
Speaker 2: his family. The man was arrested. When the man was arrested,
Speaker 2: all of the headlines that came out alleged that he
Speaker 2: was Diddy's drug mule because this man was arrested and
Speaker 2: or he was arrested trying to get to mister Colmb's
Speaker 2: and there was drugs in.
Speaker 1: One of his bags that he had with them.
Speaker 2: Right, So they bring this up and they're having a
Speaker 2: conversation about it and Brian still is like, you're not
Speaker 2: a drug mule, correct, Because that is how the government
Speaker 2: was painting it. It's like, you know, there's all these drugs,
Speaker 2: there's all these things even down to right, going back
Speaker 2: real quick, the government was so detailed today and making
Speaker 2: sure that they really had you understand how much of
Speaker 2: a job it was to be a Sean Combs assistant
Speaker 2: and having to involve yourself in things like hotel nights
Speaker 2: and baby oil and astroglibe. They showed a photo that
Speaker 2: Brendan Paul took. This photo had a cabinet where there
Speaker 2: was baby oil and astroglide laid out, and they asked
Speaker 2: him why did you take this photo? And he says,
Speaker 2: we had a new house manager and we would have
Speaker 2: to order everything that mister Combs needed from a house manager, right,
Speaker 2: And they're like and so then he's explaining that I
Speaker 2: sent this photo because I wanted this house manager to
Speaker 2: see here's exactly how things are supposed to be organized, right,
Speaker 2: And the government is like okay, without even having to
Speaker 2: say at all anything, It's like, so this was a
Speaker 2: real part of your job. But anyway, now we're back,
Speaker 2: we're on a cross with the defense, and the defense
Speaker 2: is establishing that you know, that whole drug mule allegation
Speaker 2: and narrative is a bunch of bs. Brian stills like,
Speaker 2: you're not a drug mule, cause he's like no, and
Speaker 2: he's like, well, what is your definition of a drug mule?
Speaker 2: He's like, to me, it's somebody who you know, carries
Speaker 2: a but like a ton of drugs kilos across state
Speaker 2: and things of that nature. And Brian Still was like, well,
Speaker 2: how much did you actually have on you? And he
Speaker 2: said point seven ounces and Brian Still's like, oh, that
Speaker 2: was that's a personal use amount. And then they get
Speaker 2: into a conversation in the back and forth that Brendan
Speaker 2: Paul and it then comes out that the day that
Speaker 2: Brendan Paul.
Speaker 1: Was arrested for having those drugs.
Speaker 2: On him, and you know, all of the headlines painted
Speaker 2: this as him smuggling drugs and allegedly for Diddy, or
Speaker 2: smuggling drugs to wherever they were going to allegedly. Right,
Speaker 2: he says that he got one of the best attorneys
Speaker 2: in the town, which is why his case was dropped,
Speaker 2: and whose drugs it was, because he felt a sense
Speaker 2: of loyalty to Diddy. But he said once he got
Speaker 2: in front of the judge, and the judge shaw, okay,
Speaker 2: it's it's point seven ounces. They asked him, you know,
Speaker 2: how did this get here? And he says, it was
Speaker 2: just in his bag. He didn't remember it was in
Speaker 2: his bag. It was dropped. Now for background, they didn't
Speaker 2: clarify the him not understanding it was in his bag
Speaker 2: and where the drugs came from. So they're like, were
Speaker 2: these drugs given to you to specifically take somewhere for
Speaker 2: Diddy that day? Like, because that's what is being alleged.
Speaker 2: Justess what's being set up here, And he's like, no,
Speaker 2: it was basically it was something he had cleaned up
Speaker 2: from another hotel night or another King knight, and he
Speaker 2: put it in his bag when he cleaned it up
Speaker 2: and forgot it was in the bag and went to
Speaker 2: travel with it, and then he was arrested.
Speaker 1: And I'm like okay, Because at.
Speaker 2: First I'm like, okay, he's a great summary witness for
Speaker 2: the He's a great witness for the prosecution because it's
Speaker 2: very straight to the point. It's easy for you to
Speaker 2: understand exactly what they're trying to get to with him.
Speaker 2: He's naming all these names from the company. He's talking
Speaker 2: about how things is paid for versus Hoday not like
Speaker 2: all of the things right, So you get where he's
Speaker 2: going and you get it real fast.
Speaker 1: But then they put him on for the defense. They
Speaker 1: let the defense talk to him like dang, he a
Speaker 1: good witness for him too.
Speaker 2: Because now it's looking more like, Okay, drugs were used,
Speaker 2: but it's not this big illegal operation the smuggle drugs
Speaker 2: and people the way that you guys are making it
Speaker 2: seem allegedly right. They even get to the point of
Speaker 2: talking about the Love album that dropped, because Brendan Paul
Speaker 2: was a part of the team that worked on the
Speaker 2: Love Album and he referenced it as a great it
Speaker 2: was like the best time. Brian still says, you saw,
Speaker 2: you know, mister comes do drugs a lot, and he's like,
Speaker 2: you know yeah, and he says, well, would you say
Speaker 2: because because right, you stayed up and you guys were
Speaker 2: up y'all in production for the album.
Speaker 1: You ain't sleeping like you're not sleeping things. You're in it.
Speaker 1: So you were right there you witness at all.
Speaker 2: He's like yeah, and he's like, would you say that
Speaker 2: mister Colmebs was able to highly function during the time
Speaker 2: because that was a crazy time. There was so much
Speaker 2: going on, you're dropping music. He was able to be
Speaker 2: up with y'all all night after doing all these things.
Speaker 2: He was creatively overflowing as he was taking drugs. Correct
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, I see what they're doing again.
Speaker 2: They're trying to humanize all of this behavior. They're trying
Speaker 2: to Number one, you know they're a legend that this
Speaker 2: is all because of drugs and you know, not being
Speaker 2: able to make good decisions because of that, right, But
Speaker 2: now they're turning their drugs into something.
Speaker 1: That like it's just casual.
Speaker 2: This is just what he does, and we can't sit
Speaker 2: here and prosecute a man because this is what he does.
Speaker 2: That's where the defense was going with Brian Brian Steel,
Speaker 2: with Brendan Paul. So he's like, I mean, he couldn't
Speaker 2: really answer the question because I mean, how can you
Speaker 2: tell that?
Speaker 1: But he did admit, yeah, he was able to stay
Speaker 1: up with us.
Speaker 2: So you know it's gonna be and then everything's over, right,
Speaker 2: then it just ends with him. It's gonna be really
Speaker 2: interesting to see, you know, as this rest and again
Speaker 2: I keep saying it, and the defense comes in where
Speaker 2: they go with things because these final couple witnesses are
Speaker 2: they're adding some color and some context, but it kind
Speaker 2: of opens it back up again where it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: you can kind of see both sides of the coin here.
Speaker 2: So the defense is going to be last thing we
Speaker 2: hear in an account to the defense. Things are supposed
Speaker 2: We're supposed to rest today it is Friday, June twenty
Speaker 2: and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: But they did not.
Speaker 2: And again I had said earlier on the Breakfast Club
Speaker 2: this morning that I didn't think that they would not.
Speaker 2: I didn't think that they would because they did lose
Speaker 2: a day this week in court. So it'll spill over
Speaker 2: until Monday, and we should now start hearing more about who, like,
Speaker 2: who are the witnesses that the defense are about to call.
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Speaker 2: another exclusive update from outside of the trial of Sean Colmes.
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