Anthony Constantino calls for Trump to Free Diddy, insists disgraced rapper made New York Exciting

Incoming Congressman Anthony Constantino is calling on President Trump to “free Diddy” after being elected to New York’s 21st district — bizarrely claiming the accused sex pest was a “job creator” who would “make New York exciting again.”“He made New York exciting,” Constantino said Tuesday from Capitol Hill, referring to the disgraced music mogul.“We gotta make New York exciting.

New York lost 2 million people.They lost Donald Trump to Florida.”“New York City in particular is going down the tubes.

Upstate’s going down the tubes.All the buildings are empty,” he told TMZ, explaining the controversial music mogul could be just the man to turn all that around.“He was [a] job creator,” Constantino added.

“It’s about creating jobs, exciting, enthusiasm.”The comments mirrored some of the first he made since winning his upstate district by a slim 50.8% to 49% margin on Nov.3 — in one of the GOP’s few Empire State wins — when he took time during his victory speech to promote the 57-year-old Diddy.“I think President Trump should consider freeing Diddy.

He’s a historic New Yorker that did great things for New York state.I think we should consider it,” Constantino said on election night.Diddy — whose real name is Sean Combs — is serving 50 months behind bars on prostitution charges after being convicted in 2025.But that sentence was next to nothing compared to the years he faced if convicted on his full charges of racketeering and sex trafficking — both of which he was ultimately acquitted for — prompting President Trump to weigh pardoning the hip hop icon over the summer.Nothing, however, appeared to come from Trump’s considerations, though Diddy’s legal team has reached out to the White House about the possibility.But Constantino — a brash GOP firebrand who was endorsed by the president — has apparently now taken up Diddy’s cause.Exactly how he thinks the music producer’s tarnished image — which s...