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Diddy trial watchers took to X yesterday to both defend and castigate the disgraced rapper over damning testimony:
@HollywoodOnTV
DIDDY TRIAL BOMBSHELL
Sean Combs allegedly handed a hotel security guard $100K in a brown paper bag to bury footage of his 2016 assault on Cassie Ventura.
@jameskevjunior
Nah, it's trafficking because he drugged her, held her against her will at a hotel to perform sex acts. It's not complicated. It's not just 'a domestic dispute.' People are actually saying that this is normal even for a domestic dispute. Ignorant.
@RobynDMarley_
Yall need to pay close attention to how the men in your lives are talking about this #DiddyTrial . Cassie IS the victim and that devil in human flesh is the predator. There's no grey area, no 'willing participant' BS, no devil's advocate nothing!
@Voxilar
They need to put all the men/women defending Diddy on the FBI watch list. #DiddyTrial
@mrdredays
The truth is if that hotel cctv video didn't exist, no one would have believed Cassie when she spoke out . That's the reality for many women who have been abused. So many stay silent because there's no video evidence, and they know no one will believe them. #DiddyTrial
@gwengold22
Diddy weird ass kids gotta be delusional to think they mama didn't get Cassie treatment 80x worse – they look crazy as fuck showing up to this trial. Especially his teenage girls like completely inappropriate and traumatizing might as well have the baby there too.
@barb_sl
Cassie met Diddy in 2004, aged 17/18. At 19/20, she signed 10 album deal w/BB (9 unpaid & unreleased) At that age, univ students are just starting courses for their majors, IF they've declared.
IDK, but as mom to a 19yr girl…These don't seem to be JUST costumes.
@ZigWilliams
I was led to believe #Diddy was running an organized criminal enterprise. Sex trafficking, drugging, then sexual assaulting men, women, and minors...But, all I'm hearing from court reports is he beat up his girlfriend over a decade ago and hires prostitutes for her.
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