President Trump said he would “personally vouch” for rapper A$AP Rocky’s “bail.”
The commander-in-chief said Saturday he made the promise in a pho🎃ne call with Swedish Prime Min𒅌ister Stefan Löfven.
“Just had a very good call with @SwedishPM Stefan Löfven who assured me that American citizen A$AP Rocky will be treated fairly,” “Likewise, I assured him that A$AP was not a flight risk and offered to personally vouch for his bail, or an alternative.
“Our teams will be talking further, and we agreed to speak again in the next 48 hours!”
Löfven’s off🥃ice stated, “It was a friendly and respectful p▨hone call which lasted about 20 minutes.
“The Prime Minister made sure to point out … the government neither can nor will try to influence the judicial process.”
Sweden doesn’t actually have a bail system, according to experts.
“I assume that people think we have a bail system and he was denied bail,” Dennis Martinsson, a senior law lecturer at Stockholm University, . “We don’t have that system, so the only option is detention.”
Rocky, a platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated artist whose real name is Rakim Mayers, has been in jail since July 5 while Swedish authorities investigate a fight he was allegedly involved in in Stockholm before appearing at a music festival.
It was not clear who else was involved, but videos published on social media appeared to show a person being violently thrown onto the ground by Rocky. A defense lawyer has said it was self-defense.
The president credited First Lady Melania Trump for his decision to get involved in Rocky’s case.
“Actually, the one who knew about A$AP Rocky was our first lady, right? She was telling me about — ‘Can you help A$AP Rocky?’” .
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West also lob📖bied the White House to get Rocky freed.
A Swedish judge ruled F♌riday that Rocky and two members of his entourage wil📖l remain in jail until July 25.
With Post wires