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SHOCK Testimony In Diddy Case, Lawyer Says Diddy Had Kid Cudi’s Car FIREBOMBED


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Diddy is on trial in Los Angeles federal court on a RICO charge and two sex trafficking charges related to a woman named Cassie Ventura, who claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Diddy while in his care.

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00:00:00.000 But we're going to switch gears entirely, and we're going to talk to our guest, GoodLogic, here, who has been reporting from the Diddy trial.
00:00:17.040 Do I have you here?
00:00:19.040 Yes.
00:00:19.560 Hello?
00:00:20.040 Hi.
00:00:20.480 Can we turn that up?
00:00:21.420 Yep.
00:00:22.900 Hello?
00:00:23.900 Hi.
00:00:24.360 How are you?
00:00:24.880 I'm good.
00:00:25.320 How are you?
00:00:26.240 Glad to have you on.
00:00:27.180 I am great.
00:00:27.880 Great.
00:00:28.200 So I watched some of your video yesterday, and I admit that I have been following along at this Diddy trial just to see what kind of crazy lifestyle choices have been made by our top celebrities.
00:00:40.780 Yesterday I saw a story that apparently he—apparently Diddy had Obama-shaped ecstasy pills.
00:00:47.300 Did that—
00:00:48.000 Yeah.
00:00:48.420 Well, yesterday was kind of a bombshell in the sense that Dr. Dawn Hughes, she is—she's the psychologist who testified.
00:00:57.960 On behalf of Amber Heard in the Dept v. Heard trial, she took the stand to give a lecture to the jury about the—what is—what should be expected from someone who's been a long-time sufferer of domestic violence.
00:01:13.800 And specifically talking about, you know, how they end up coping with it, with what issue—who they end up disclosing it to, and why they stay with them, as well as how it affects their memory.
00:01:25.900 Those are the four areas that she's really focused on.
00:01:28.540 And the cross-examination was fire.
00:01:30.760 I should mention that this morning—and I can talk about that with you.
00:01:34.100 I can also talk to you about how this morning Kid Cudi came in and testified.
00:01:38.380 Let's hear about Kid Cudi.
00:01:39.040 So tell me which one you'd rather me start with, and I'll go there.
00:01:42.120 I'd love to hear about the Kid Cudi thing.
00:01:44.820 Okay.
00:01:45.320 So for those of your viewers who may not be following up with exactly what this trial is about and the charges here,
00:01:52.060 so there's a RICO charge and two sex trafficking charges.
00:01:56.220 And one of those sex trafficking charges relates to a model singer named Cassie Ventura.
00:02:02.300 The state explains, and Cassie's testified—she spent four days on the stand saying how she started her relationship with Diddy after she was already a model and had one hit song,
00:02:12.360 and he signed her to a 10-album deal.
00:02:17.280 And quickly thereafter—that was in 2007—and quickly thereafter, they developed a personal relationship, and she fell very hard for Diddy.
00:02:26.560 Diddy seemed to work very hard to get her attention.
00:02:28.740 And near the end of 2007, they started dating an on-and-off relationship for 11 years, which ends in 2018.
00:02:39.660 And then a year into it, or thereabouts, he introduces her to what he would call freak-offs.
00:02:46.460 Now, freak-offs—
00:02:47.380 This is these parties that we've been hearing about, these, like, massive orgy parties?
00:02:50.840 No, it's not.
00:02:51.760 Oh.
00:02:51.900 That's what your audience should be aware of.
00:02:53.940 While we've all been referring to in the media for the last year since this story broke, as freak-offs as being the wild parties,
00:03:01.000 it's really—the way they're using it in this trial, and this is something people have issue with,
00:03:05.740 is that they're calling freak-offs when Diddy would have these voyeur—these marathon sex sessions where he would play voyeur
00:03:13.040 and hire an escort or sometimes multiple escorts to basically engage with Cassie, 0.95
00:03:20.940 putting oil on each other and engaging in long sex marathons while he would watch and pleasure himself.
00:03:28.200 And they would have multiple sessions, which would last nine hours, days, some of them.
00:03:33.700 He described the short one as being nine hours.
00:03:36.020 This is, like, why they had the ecstasy, probably.
00:03:39.220 I'm sorry?
00:03:39.740 This is probably why they had the ecstasy.
00:03:41.220 Yeah, they had ecstasy.
00:03:44.260 She testified that she took ketamine because she wanted to dissociate from it and just leave her body for it.
00:03:51.800 At a certain point in time during the relationship, he stopped her from taking ketamine because it was bothering him
00:03:56.580 that she's not going to remember them.
00:03:58.900 He wanted these incidents to last with her forever.
00:04:03.000 Had she—
00:04:03.220 Oh, go ahead.
00:04:04.500 She described a great deal of abuse where he would pull her by the hair, punch her in the face.
00:04:10.740 We've seen pictures of her with, like, a golf ball-sized nuts, like, by her eyeball and cuts. 1.00
00:04:19.020 There's a famous video of her being dragged around by the Intercontinental Hotel.
00:04:24.520 Is that the CNN tape?
00:04:25.660 Is that the tape that was the surveillance video by the elevators?
00:04:28.880 Yes.
00:04:29.500 Yeah, that was aired on day one.
00:04:32.080 The forecast even testified.
00:04:33.800 And many people have seen that already.
00:04:36.620 And also that he was blackmailing her or extorting her in the sense that she told over a story
00:04:43.140 how when she was flying back from Cannes to New York and they had gotten in a fight
00:04:47.380 because Diddy thought that she had stolen his drugs, that she tried moving seats and he followed after her,
00:04:53.480 opened up his laptop—
00:04:55.000 Diddy thought that she stole his drugs? 1.00
00:04:57.820 I'm sorry, what was that?
00:04:58.600 You said Diddy thought she stole his drugs? 0.63
00:05:01.360 Yes.
00:05:01.740 Diddy thought she—diddy accused her of stealing her—stealing his drugs. 0.85
00:05:05.760 They were on a boat in France and they were supposed to be going to, like, a movie, you know,
00:05:11.480 Cannes Film Festival type of thing.
00:05:13.080 And he threw her off the boat.
00:05:16.040 And later that had a premiere together and she's brooding and he's angry and he's digging his hands into her thigh
00:05:21.760 where she's wearing a beaded dress to try and, you know, to try and, like, punish her. 1.00
00:05:26.440 And on the flight home the next day, even though she tried moving away from him,
00:05:30.220 he follows after her, opens up his laptop and starts playing one of the freak-off sessions that he recorded of her performing there
00:05:40.100 and telling her that if she doesn't do what he wants, that he's going to release this to the public.
00:05:46.040 Is the allegation that he was taking these videos the whole time in order to blackmail her?
00:05:52.520 Well, I mean, there's no way to know whether it's for his own gratification or—
00:05:58.520 She said she hated there being videos and we tried to delete them whenever she could
00:06:02.820 and that she thought it was a deleted video.
00:06:04.440 And then she spent five hours with him playing it right there on a commercial plane
00:06:09.240 and him telling her that it's going to be released if, you know, if he gets too upset with her.
00:06:14.300 And that—so what did she do that night?
00:06:15.640 She goes and does a freak-off. 0.80
00:06:17.140 So that's at least one incident where the state can point to the coercion that she faced. 0.98
00:06:21.720 But a lot of her testimony was very conflicting in that she seems to really love him to some degree even today.
00:06:28.920 I mean, when she was asked about that very question on the stand, she said, you know,
00:06:33.240 I love the time I spent with him, but she has very strong feelings.
00:06:37.180 And that's why Dr. Dawn Hughes was brought in yesterday to try and establish that that's a common thing
00:06:43.020 with the people who suffer from domestic violence.
00:06:44.980 Oh, for sure.
00:06:45.660 That they're continually looking to return to the honeymoon phase and do whatever they can to please their partner,
00:06:52.440 A, to avoid the abuse, and B, to try and recapture the good moments.
00:07:00.540 And that there will be a lot of good moments, and she described those as being controlling as well.
00:07:05.160 That in order to—it's like—it's a way that an abuser would use the carrot and the stick.
00:07:10.280 But on cross-examination yesterday, she—Dr. Dawn Hughes was facing a firestorm because she talked about the coping methods,
00:07:20.620 that one of the coping methods for dealing with the abuse and who they'll confide in,
00:07:27.680 is that they can go to someone—they can go to formal—this is a formal therapy versus informal.
00:07:33.380 And she said formal therapy is you go to police or a health care worker.
00:07:37.080 Informal is when you talk to—because when you talk to friends or family.
00:07:40.360 So in cross-examination, Agniflio says to her, so what type—so you're talking about formal and informal.
00:07:47.920 How would you classify when one of the first people you talk to is a civil attorney?
00:07:54.260 And she's like all flustered. 0.92
00:07:56.200 He's like, people go to civil attorney for money, right?
00:07:59.480 I mean, is that a form of counseling when they go talk to a civil attorney?
00:08:02.840 So they're trying to discredit.
00:08:04.020 They're just trying to discredit her testimony?
00:08:05.980 He was lacing into her and saying how she's testified 65 times in every time.
00:08:14.300 It's always a battered woman, every single time, never arguing for the defense 1.00
00:08:19.220 and always screaming for the battered woman. 0.93
00:08:24.320 Well, on the redirect, so Maureen Comey was handling the redirect,
00:08:31.200 and she said, you've testified for the defense, haven't you?
00:08:34.720 And she said, yes, many times.
00:08:36.980 In fact, you testified on behalf—you were retained by one of the defense attorneys
00:08:43.160 who are sitting in this room right now.
00:08:46.160 And she said, yes.
00:08:47.840 And I'm in a jury viewing room the whole time.
00:08:51.160 We're like, oh, my God.
00:08:52.400 Oh, like, it's audible, like you're in a movie theater.
00:08:55.520 And then on recross—
00:08:58.180 So the jury's not in the room?
00:08:59.460 The jury's not in the courtroom?
00:09:00.540 They're in a separate room?
00:09:01.120 Not the room that I'm watching.
00:09:02.540 The room that I'm watching, the jury room where—the courtroom where Diddy is,
00:09:08.460 everyone keeps a poker face.
00:09:10.300 We're much freer when you have 50 journalists sitting in a viewing room for people to react.
00:09:16.080 It's relatively quiet.
00:09:17.400 It's like a movie theater.
00:09:18.460 You know, for a big moment, there'll be an O, but otherwise it's very quiet.
00:09:22.340 But on redirect, so Magniflio said, so you were hired by Brian Steele,
00:09:27.800 which is one of the defense attorneys, you retained for him.
00:09:31.080 Wasn't that case a case where he was representing a defendant who was accused by the state of a woman accused of shooting her husband?
00:09:38.960 Yeah.
00:09:39.200 So that was also with domestic violence where you were saying that—
00:09:42.300 And the point being, you're always about domestic violence.
00:09:45.140 You say every woman is a victim of domestic violence.
00:09:47.600 And then he's like—and he didn't end up putting you on the stand, did he?
00:09:51.780 No.
00:09:52.500 So he looked at what you had to—Brian Steele looked at what you had to say and said, I'm not interested in this.
00:09:59.140 It was just like—it was like one one-liner after another.
00:10:02.640 It was so intense.
00:10:04.000 And then today we got Kid Cudi, which just made it, like, even better.
00:10:07.580 Well, we just have about one or two minutes left.
00:10:09.640 Can you give us a little rundown on the Kid Cudi thing?
00:10:12.200 So Kid Cudi had dated Cassie for a year, and when Diddy found out about it, he was in a freak-off and went through her phone.
00:10:20.880 And he saw that there was—
00:10:21.900 He found out about it while he was watching his girlfriend have sex with someone else? 0.92
00:10:26.880 Yes. 0.54
00:10:27.360 He's looking through her phone.
00:10:29.020 This is according to Cassie.
00:10:30.300 He's looking through her phone, and he sees a text from Kid Cudi saying, bring your toiletries to my house.
00:10:37.720 And according to Cassie, he picked up a wine bottle opener and lunged at her.
00:10:41.540 Oh, my goodness.
00:10:42.280 Chasing her around, and she flees the freak-off because he was so outraged.
00:10:46.140 Now, she claimed that she was on a break in their relationship, and she was—
00:10:49.640 While she was having sex with someone else so he could watch?
00:10:52.240 She was asked about that on Cross, and she's like—and when they asked about that on Cross, there was a mistake by the defense.
00:10:58.320 Because they were like, why would you be on a freak-off when you're on a break?
00:11:01.440 She goes, by that point, it was my job, which was like—
00:11:05.280 It was her job?
00:11:06.240 Like, she was getting paid to do this?
00:11:08.660 For a defense to try and say she's doing it voluntarily, they really walked into a trap there.
00:11:12.640 Yeah, for sure.
00:11:14.220 But I've got to share with you a couple just before we run out of time.
00:11:17.360 So Kid Cudi ends up—she calls Kid Cudi, and they end up fleeing, and she ends up breaking up with Kid Cudi.
00:11:24.300 And Diddy's threatening to kill both of them, and then he's going to blow up Kid Cudi's car.
00:11:28.740 And sure enough, Kid Cudi's car ends up getting blown up.
00:11:33.580 They have this meeting.
00:11:34.800 And the day after, his car gets a Molotov cocktail, and we saw pictures of that.
00:11:40.020 But they had this meeting.
00:11:41.600 He's like, so we go to this—I come to the Soho house, which is where we had this meeting.
00:11:45.440 And when we're there at the Soho house, I walk in, and Diddy's standing there, and there's this wall of windows overlooking Beverly Hills.
00:11:53.520 And he's looking out the windows with his back to me, and his hands clasped behind his back like he's a super—he's like a Marvel supervillain.
00:12:00.360 Or like a mobster.
00:12:01.160 And he looks so calm the entire time.
00:12:05.380 And that when they came out, and he turns around, and we start having a conversation, and he's like, you knew she was my girl.
00:12:13.040 And he's very calm.
00:12:14.320 He's like, and, you know, we were homies, and you knew she was my girl.
00:12:17.700 And we agreed to just put it in the past, and Cassie showed up, and he was very—he was very confused and disappointed that she was—he was going—that he saw that Cassie just went right back to him.
00:12:27.820 And because he spent the year with her, and that he said, you know, I was—I was very—I was very hurt.
00:12:33.440 And he ended up in being to defense, to their credit, he made it to defense that Cassie played him and Diddy, that Cassie was playing both of them,
00:12:40.900 and that he—he assumed that she would never go back to him, and that she was playing both of them.
00:12:46.740 So we've got a real soap opera going on here, the Diddy trial.
00:12:49.860 How many weeks are left?
00:12:51.100 What, like six weeks left, or two?
00:12:53.500 I mean, not two.
00:12:54.300 I think they said it was going to be an eight-week trial, so how many?
00:12:57.500 Yeah, it's—they're hoping it'll end by July 4th.
00:13:00.000 We're on day nine, the second week of the trial.
00:13:02.240 Oh, wow.
00:13:02.600 Okay.
00:13:03.120 Well, thank you so much for joining us.
00:13:05.020 Where can people find you?
00:13:07.100 All right.
00:13:07.380 So my—my—my stage name, I'm Joe Neiman.
00:13:10.060 People know me as Good Logic, which is L-A-W-G-I-C. 0.99
00:13:13.740 You can find me on YouTube.
00:13:14.940 You can find me on Rumble.
00:13:16.240 I'm covering this every day.
00:13:17.940 I do a recap of what happened that morning, the afternoon, and at night, I go through a much more detailed breakdown as to what we saw that day.
00:13:25.360 Okay, great.
00:13:25.900 And you can also find me on X at the following pro.
00:13:29.960 Okay, great.
00:13:30.260 So everywhere you look for me, you can just look Good Logic.
00:13:32.680 You'll find me there, L-A-W-G-I-C, because I'm an attorney.
00:13:36.140 Okay, great.
00:13:36.640 There you go.
00:13:37.000 That's clever.
00:13:37.840 Thank you so much, Joe.
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