Andy Schlafly spent a July 10 WorldNetDaily column being bizarrely gleeful that that Sean “Diddy” Combs was supposedly “exonerated” in a trial:
Prosecutions by the Department of Justice (DOJ) continue relentlessly as they did under Biden, overfunded without any accountability. While a few particularly unjustified prosecutions were quickly dismissed after Trump took office and a few prosecutors were fired, the recent imprisonment of Sean “Diddy” Combs after his acquittal on all serious charges demonstrates that the federal police state remains fully in power.
[…]The biggest trial of this year was DOJ’s recent prosecution of Diddy Combs, as initiated last year by the Biden administration. DOJ recently spent seven weeks prosecuting Diddy at trial in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, calling 34 witnesses to testify.
The contrived basis for federal jurisdiction was the assertion that Diddy Combs, who has recorded 11 No. 1 songs while winning three Grammy Awards, was somehow a racketeer who violated the anti-racketeering federal law (RICO) designed for prosecuting the Mafia. DOJ’s case against the music celebrity Diddy turned on his partying and sexual activities, which are plainly not mob-related racketeering.
In fact, Combs was found guilty of prostitution charges, which seem pretty serious. Still, Schlafly’s defense of Combs continued:
In the Diddy Combs trial, the jury deliberated carefully for more than two days and found the successful rapper not guilty on all of the racketeering-related charges. While awaiting the verdict on charges that carried a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, the former altar boy and Catholic school-educated Diddy remarkably prayed with his many supporters in the courtroom.
The liberal media was furious at the not-guilty verdicts, illustrating that this was a political play against so-called toxic masculinity all along. The Biden-appointed judge then sent Diddy Combs back to prison despite his exoneration on the primary charges.
Engaging in prostitution seems pretty darn toxic, as does that video of him beating up then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Also, Combs having once been an “altar boy” seems irrelevant to the crimes he was accused of. This somehow led to Schlafly referencing the Capitol rioters:
The same tyranny that was inflicted on many J6 defendants by imprisoning them for years in D.C. without justification is being inflicted by DOJ now against Diddy Combs, who offered to post a bond of $1 million. Diddy received a standing ovation upon his return to prison after the jury sided with him.
In fact, numerous rioters were convicted for violent acts, and a number of them had previous violent criminal records. Schlafly concluded by whining that a man convicted of prostitution was not allowed to run free:
This imprisonment is hardly the American liberty we just celebrated on Independence Day, when a man continues to be jailed despite prevailing before a jury in federal court where almost no defendant ever wins. While some may be unsympathetic to Diddy based on allegations mostly rejected by the jury, a similar misuse of racketeering laws by prosecutors remains pending against President Trump and his supporters in Georgia.
The overbearing and overfunded DOJ that spent tens of millions of dollars trying to prosecute Trump has evidently not changed. While the J6 defendants have been pardoned for the imaginary “crime” of setting foot inside the Capitol, the tyranny by the DOJ continues.
Yes, Schlafly really believes that prosecutors — not the criminals — are the problem.