Diddy will fight his legal case to the bitter end ... because his lawyer says a plea deal won't fly with his client.
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00:00This is the type of indictment you would expect from someone in the mafia.
00:03I don't know that I could keep him off the stand.
00:05He is very eager to tell his story.
00:08They're going to show that video over and over and over
00:11about what happens to women that won't change their stories.
00:15His reputation is over.
00:17The United States government, they start making this case
00:20as a takedown of a successful black man.
00:24TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment, now streaming on Tubi.
00:30The Diddy documentary that dropped on Tubi a couple days ago
00:36has kind of caused a stir, partly because of what Diddy's lawyer told us.
00:42And there were a couple of things.
00:43I mean, I want to say the silly part,
00:46but I guess it's not really silly because it's part of the case.
00:49But it was the Costco comments.
00:51The Costco comments about the baby oil.
00:54I feel like he was trying to make a joke.
00:56Yeah.
00:56It did not land well with a lot of people who felt like
00:59it was an insensitive thing to be joking about,
01:02considering what the allegations are.
01:04And you know what we're talking about.
01:05He was saying that a lot of what the feds are talking about
01:10were three ways, these freak-offs.
01:13And, you know, and I said to him,
01:14why were there a thousand bottles of baby oil?
01:16Because the feds...
01:17That's a perfect follow-up question.
01:19Well, because the feds made it sound like they're orgies.
01:21Right.
01:21And there's video of this.
01:23And so he got into it.
01:25That is...
01:27Let's put that aside.
01:28One thing people are talking about.
01:29The interesting thing, and all of this is not in the doc,
01:33there's other things that I talked to the lawyer about,
01:36is how quickly they want this trial to go.
01:39Yeah. Mark Agnifolo says that they are not running from this trial.
01:43In fact, Diddy feels very confident in his ability to defend himself here.
01:50This is what Mark had to say about
01:52the possibility of a plea deal.
01:55Would you be open to a plea bargain?
01:58Well, it's not up to me.
01:59It's up to Mr. Combs.
02:01And I don't see it happening.
02:03Why?
02:04Because he believes he's innocent.
02:06He believes he's innocent.
02:07And what's more, he believes that he needs to stand up,
02:12not just for himself, for his family,
02:15and for everybody who's been targeted by the federal government.
02:20Mr. Combs feels, A, he's innocent, which is why he's not going to plead guilty.
02:24B, he's going to be truthful about this case
02:26because he wants to portray that to the people who have loved him his whole life.
02:31And I think he also feels an obligation to people in general.
02:35Maybe it's black people.
02:36Maybe it's white people.
02:37Maybe it's anybody who's ever felt aggrieved and targeted by the government.
02:42He feels an obligation to those people to say,
02:44you know what, maybe I can break the model.
02:46You know, maybe I can show the world that a black man can win,
02:51you know, in federal court.
02:53And I think he probably is the only person I know of
02:56who might be able to actually accomplish that.
02:58So he said that he is going to accelerate this as quickly as possible.
03:05And he's going to call the feds bluff
03:08because he doesn't think the feds have their ducks in a row.
03:11They're still investigating.
03:13He has a right to a speedy trial.
03:15And he says he is going to enforce that right.
03:17I think one of the things we're seeing here is an attorney trying to
03:20a little bit win over the court of public opinion here, right?
03:23I mean, these are lines that he's using publicly.
03:26I don't know how well they play in court.
03:28And I don't know how honestly, how strong they are
03:32in terms of eventually, you know, having his client prevail,
03:35but maybe using a strategy emerge.
03:36Maybe this is going to be sort of a, you know,
03:40put the feds on trial for the decision to prosecute in the first place.