YouTuber has covered trial since day 1published at 14:34 BST
Grace Eliza Goodwin
Reporting from court
One of the more noticeable aspects of this trial has been the huge amount of interest from social media influencers. During the trial, extra overflow rooms were opened in the courthouse so everyone could fit in – watching the trial from TV screens.
I just spoke with YouTuber Trent Out Loud, who has 124,000 subscribers.
Trent has been covering Sean Combs’ trial for his followers from the beginning.
He tells me he isn’t hoping for the sentencing to turn out any particular way. Instead, he says he’s here to lay out all the facts for his viewers, and to describe for them what the atmosphere is like inside the courtroom.
He says he thinks Combs has probably experienced at least some rehabilitation in jail, where he’s been held for more than a year.
“I do know that does have an effect on you, especially somebody who was a billionaire and has drivers, housekeepers. He’s used to going to the Met Gala,” Trent tells me.
And now that Combs has spent so much time in a jail often criticised for its rough conditions, “he definitely feels the effect of his crimes”, he adds.
”What the judge will do, I do not know.”
