The only thing Montel Williams and Sean “Diddy” Combs have in common is that they’re both Black men and have been famous since the 1990s. But they don’t especially look alike, aren’t renowned for the same reason, and only one of them currently stands accused of horrific sex crimes.
Williams, the former talk show host, is known to have dated Kamala Harris briefly in the 1990s. While he hasn’t spoken out much about his time with Harris, he’s been generally supportive of him and critical of those who dislike her. Williams has also occasionally been mocked by those who, for some reason, consider Harris’ sexual history scandalous.
“@KamalaHarris and I briefly dated about 20 years ago when we were both single. So what? I have great respect for Sen. Harris. I have to wonder if the same stories about her dating history would have been written if she were a male candidate?,” Williams tweeted in 2019, when Harris was running for president the first time.
There was an episode this week that represented several terrible tendencies in today’s politics, from racial prejudice to sexism to the tendency to accuse one’s political opponents of sex crimes baselessly.
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An X user, either out of confusion or by purposely trolling, posted a familiar vintage photo of Harris and Williams together while misidentifying Williams as Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was arrested earlier this week following a massive sex trafficking and racketeering indictment.
Here they go again with “all black people look alike…” https://t.co/rsWUv9tIjn
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) September 17, 2024
While fever dreams about nefarious connections between Democrats and Hollywood types, in carrying out child sex abuse, are a big part of the QAnon and Pizzagate mythologies, there is not any reason to suspect that Kamala Harris and Sean Combs have ever met, or that Harris has anything to do with his crimes.
When asked about her favorite rappers, in a famed 2019 interview on The Breakfast Club, Harris, who is a West Coast native, named Snoop Dogg and Tupac, but did not cite Diddy’s old friend Notorious B.I.G.
One X user did notice that Donald and Melania Trump have been photographed with Combs, in an undated vintage photo:
That’s Montel Williams. This is P. Diddy. https://t.co/Fmu8xL0E5C pic.twitter.com/NzUeXpu3jY
— Ryan Aguirre (@aguirreryan) September 17, 2024
Having one’s picture taken does not necessarily mean that person is a coconspirator in the other person’s crimes; more likely it just means they attended the same party. Which is likely the same excuse Trump would make when photos surface of him with Jeffrey Epstein.
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