Old photos of Diddy with Barack Obama resurface as music mogul's sex trafficking arrest sends shockwaves through political world

Images of Barack Obama laughing with Diddy person resurfaced connected X amid the disgraced rap mogul's enactment trafficking arrest. 

The producer's indictment has sent shockwaves done the governmental world, with the galore smiling images helium took with almighty figures, besides including Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, coming backmost to haunt celebrities this week. 

When it came to Obama, the aboriginal president archetypal crossed paths with Diddy successful 2004 erstwhile the euphony mogul rallied enactment for Democrats up of that year's DNC. 

This included Diddy interviewing Obama for MTV, wherever helium praised 'Puff Daddy for each the enactment he's been doing' to get retired the vote. 

As Diddy's wealthiness soared to implicit $700 cardinal done the noughties, helium became a apical personage backer for the Democrats and utilized his level to backmost the enactment successful respective predetermination cycles. 

In 2004, this saw Diddy interrogation some Obama - past a campaigner for the senate successful Illinois - and Hillary Clinton. 

Footage of his little interrogation with Obama circulated wide this week aft Diddy's apprehension connected enactment transgression charges, successful which Obama praised the rapper's efforts 'because helium doesn't person to bash this.' 

'This is portion of what is important astir giving back,' the young Obama said. 

Their speech appeared jovial, arsenic Diddy made amusive of Obama sweating astatine the normal arsenic helium said helium 'wanted to apologize for not sweating' portion Obama jokingly padded his caput with a napkin. 

Diddy would spell connected to enactment Obama's palmy tally for the White House successful 2008, including hosting a 'Last Chance for Change' rally for the then-candidate successful Florida days earlier the election. 

Similarly arsenic with Obama, conservatives leapt connected an aged Kamala Harris tweet successful the aftermath of Diddy's apprehension where she praised the disgraced rap mogul. 

The connection was sent during the Vice President's erstwhile tally for the White House successful 2019, arsenic she praised Diddy for hosting a municipality hallway connected radical inequality for her campaign.

'There's a batch astatine involvement for our communities close present and it's captious we bring to the forefront however coronavirus is perpetuating radical inequality and wellness disparities,' the tweet read.

But portion immoderate tried to gully a transportation betwixt Harris' past campaigning and the accused enactment trafficker, others pointed retired that Diddy's erstwhile presumption arsenic a hep hop icon enactment him successful proximity to galore stars.

This included immoderate sharing images from a fundraiser Donald Trump hosted astatine Mar-a-Lago successful 2005 for the Rush Philanthropic Foundation, wherever the erstwhile president was pictured with Diddy.

The pictures of Diddy and Trump unneurotic came astatine a clip erstwhile Trump was a registered Democrat and a large fundraiser for the party. 

It comes aft Diddy, existent sanction Sean Combs, was arrested Monday nighttime successful New York City pursuing an indictment from a expansive jury.

Combs was arrested by Homeland Security officials astatine the Park Hyatt edifice successful midtown Manhattan, and connected Tuesday a justice ordered him to beryllium held without bail.

At the halfway of allegations against Diddy are alleged 'freak off' sessions wherever the rapper would allegedly coerce and cause women into performing lengthy intersexual marathons.

The apprehension of Diddy came astir six months aft national authorities raided his homes successful Los Angeles and Miami.

In those raids, prosecutors said agents recovered implicit 1,000 bottles of babe lipid and lubricant that were alleged to person been utilized successful his infamous 'freak offs.'

Authorities said they person interviewed much than 50 witnesses and associates, and their raids included the seizure of a trove of laptops, compartment phones and hard drives.

Prosecutors besides assertion they are successful possession of footage that they assertion proves Diddy coerced and manipulated victims into taking portion successful lewd acts.

Diddy's lawyer Marc Agnifilo has argued successful tribunal this week that his lawsuit does not merit to beryllium lumped successful with different high-profile figures accused of akin crimes, specified arsenic R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaking of the indictment, Agnifilo said: 'This is evidence, not of enactment trafficking, but of being caught being unfaithful... He was successful a 10-year loving narration done acheronian periods.'