Trump hints that he would kick Prince Harry out of US if he lied on visa application

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Donald Trump has hinted that he would kick Prince Harry out of the US if it emerges that he lied on his visa application.

In a sit-down interview with Nigel Farage for GB News, resulting from air later on Tuesday, Mr Trump stated that there can be no preferential remedy for the Duke of Sussex if he returns to the White House in November.

Prince Harry is at the moment embroiled in a authorized battle over his US visa application after he admitting to previous drug use in his extremely controversial memoir Spare.

Conservative suppose tank the Heritage Foundation has argued that his admission that he took cocaine, hashish and magic mushrooms in his memoir means that he shouldn’t have been allowed into the US underneath the nation’s visa legal guidelines, which state that previous drug use or felony exercise might make an applicant ineligible.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rejected a request by the suppose tank in June to expedite its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the discharge of immigration information of the Duke of Sussex, arguing that there isn’t any “public interest in disclosure sufficient to override the subject’s privacy interests”.

In a preview of the GB News interview, Mr Farage asks Mr Trump if Prince Harry ought to have “special privileges” if authorities discover he lied on his visa application.

Mr Trump responded: “No. 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 as as to whether “appropriate action” might imply “not staying in America,” Mr Trump replied: “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.”

He added that if he wins the presidential election in November then the Duke of Sussex “would be on his own”.

There is at the moment no proof to recommend that Prince Harry offered false info on his visa application and legal professionals for the US authorities have insisted that drug claims in Spare “are not proof” he really took them.

In the memoir, Prince Harry wrote that cocaine “didn’t do anything for me” when he took “a line” on the age of 17.

“It wasn’t much fun, and it didn’t make me particularly happy, as it seemed to make everyone around me… but it did make me feel different, and that was the main goal,” he stated.

The 39-year-old added: “Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me.”

He additionally described how he received excessive on magic mushrooms in 2016, aged 31, whereas at a celebration in California.

“Beside the toilet was a round silver bin, the kind with a foot pedal to open the lid. I stared at the bin. It stared back. Then it became . . . a head,” he wrote.

“I stepped on the pedal and the head opened its mouth. A huge open grin. I laughed, turned away, took a p***. Now the loo became a head too. The bowl was its gaping maw, the hinges of the seat were its piercing silver eyes. It said, ‘Aaah’,” he continued.

Mr Trump beforehand instructed The Daily Express in February that he “wouldn’t protect” Prince Harry as a result of he had “betrayed the Queen” when he left the Royal Family and moved to the US, the place he now lives together with his spouse Meghan Markle and their two kids Archie and Lilibet.

The GB News interview will air at 3pm ET (7pm GMT) on Tuesday 19 March.