R. Kelly and Diddy have one thing in frequent … each males have been accused of racketeering and intercourse trafficking — and regardless that the 2 aren’t precisely buddies, Kelly says he feels for Diddy, who’s presently on trial, and says Black entertainers as an entire are below siege by the feds.

TMZ caught up with one in every of Kelly’s attorneys, Beau Brindley, who spoke to us about his well-known shopper, who was simply positioned in solitary confinement after receiving demise threats from white supremacists in a federal jail in North Carolina.

Brindley factors out Kelly and Diddy will not be buddies — and “removed from it” — however Kelly nonetheless has sympathy for Diddy over his present scenario … as everybody is aware of, Diddy is going through a long time behind bars if convicted on racketeering, intercourse trafficking and different expenses at his federal legal trial in NYC.

The legal professional then goes after legislation enforcement … telling us the feds are particularly concentrating on Black entertainers and judging them on their sexual preferences. He says the feds are abusing legal statutes by prosecuting them for what occurs behind closed doorways.

Brindley additionally talked to us about wanting Trump to pardon the R&B singer. He says he is hopeful Kelly makes the president’s pardon listing and thinks Kelly might need probability since Trump is aware of what it is prefer to be on the federal radar.

As we reported this week, Brindley filed a movement asking for Kelly to be launched from jail after discovering white supremacists had been plotting to allegedly homicide his shopper. Jail officers put Kelly in solitary confinement for his personal security after the extremist group additionally threatened to poison his meals, making Kelly too paranoid to eat. However, Brinley says, he needs Kelly out of isolation and jail altogether, requesting {that a} decide grant Kelly dwelling confinement. The decide has but to rule on the movement.

In 2021, Kelly was convicted of racketeering and intercourse trafficking at his New York federal trial. A 12 months later, he was discovered responsible of kid pornography and enticement of minors for intercourse in an Illinois federal court docket. He is now serving a mixed 31 years in jail.