Donald Trump hints at deporting Prince Harry if he wins election: ‘Appropriate action’
Former President Donald Trump warned Tuesday in an interview with British television that if he is elected in November, Prince Harry may face deportation from the US if he is found to have lied about his drug use on his visa paperwork.
The Duke of Sussex’s immigration status has become the subject of a legal battle after Harry admitted to taking illegal drugs in his memoir, “Spare,” which was released last year.
GB News presenter Nigel Farage asked Trump, 77, whether Harry, 39, should have “special privileges” if he is discovered to have lied on his application for a US visa.
“No,” Trump answered. “We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied, they’ll have to take appropriate action.”
When pressed on whether “appropriate action” might mean deportation, Trump left open the possibility.
“Oh, I don’t know. You’ll have to tell me. You just have to tell me. You would have thought they would have known this a long time ago,” the 45th president said.
In “Spare,” Harry described taking cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms, which would be grounds for his visa application to be rejected.
Trump has previously warned that if Americans make him the 47th president on Nov. 5, Harry would be “on his own” following his “unforgivable” betrayal of his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The former president spoke highly of Elizabeth, who died in 2022, in the interview with Farage — saying she was “unbelievable” and criticizing Harry and his American wife Meghan Markle over their relationship with her.
“I thought she was treated very disrespectfully by them,” Trump said. “I would imagine they broke her heart. The things that they were saying were so bad and so horrible.”
“She was in her 90s and hearing this stuff,” he added. “I think they broke her heart, I think they really hurt her.”
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., last month, Trump criticized the Biden administration for being “too gracious” to the Sussexes ever since Harry and Markle moved to California in 2020.
“I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me,” the former president told the Daily Express newspaper.
“I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me,” the former president told the Daily Express newspaper.
Of the Biden White House, Trump said: “I think they have been too gracious to him after what he has done.”
The Heritage Foundation conservative think tank has sought Harry’s visa records, arguing that the second son of King Charles III and the late Princess Diana could not have legally entered the US due to his drug use.
In “Spare,” Harry wrote that cocaine “didn’t do anything for me,” but “Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me.”
The Heritage Foundation’s lawsuit argues that US law “generally renders such a person inadmissible for entry” to the country, but lawyers representing the Department of Homeland Security argued in court that saying something in a book wasn’t “sworn testimony or proof.”
The government lawyers argued Prince Harry’s account could have been embellished to “sell books,” noting that “saying something in a book doesn’t necessarily make it true.”
