Prince Harry is ‘safe to stay in America if Biden wins’: US ambassador to London laughs of suggestion Duke could be deported – after Trump threatened action if he is elected
Prince Harry is safe to stay in America as long as Joe Biden remains president, the US ambassador said today as she laughed off Donald Trump‘s threats to take ‘appropriate action’ against him.
The Republican frontrunner said last week that the Duke of Sussex could face consequences if he is found to have lied about taking drugs on his US visa application.
US Ambassador Jane Hartley was asked about his comments in an interview today. She laughed off the suggestion Harry could be deported, telling Sky News: ‘It’s not gonna happen in the Biden administration.’
Harry’s references to using cocaine, cannabis and magic mushrooms in his memoir, Spare, prompted a conservative think-tank to sue the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) to reveal the contents of his visa application.
The Heritage Foundation claims the information is of ‘immense public interest’ as, they claim, it could show Harry ‘lied’ on his visa application about his past drug use or ‘answered truthfully’ and ‘received special treatment’.
Donald Trump said last week that ‘action’ could be taken against the Duke of Sussex if he is found to have lied about taking drugs on his US visa application
US Ambassador Jane Hartley laughed off the suggestion Harry could be deported, telling Sky News: ‘It’s not gonna happen in the Biden administration’
The Biden administration is fighting the case on the basis that visa applicants have a right to privacy.
But the foundation has countered by insisting Harry undermined his right to privacy in the book and by ‘selling every aspect of his private life’.
Interviewed for GB News by Nigel Farage last Tuesday, Donald Trump said Harry should not get ‘special privileges’ if it turns out he lied.
Mr Trump said: ‘We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they’ll have to take appropriate action.’
Asked if ‘appropriate action’ could mean ‘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.’
The former president also used the interview to accuse Harry and Meghan of ‘breaking the Queen’s heart’ with their public criticism of the Royal Family.
Mr Trump said that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were ‘horrible’ towards the late Monarch during Megxit and claimed that, while she did not express it publicly, they ‘really hurt her’.
Mr Trump said he got to know The Queen ‘very well’ on his state visit to the UK in 2019, calling her ‘unbelievable’.
He said: ‘I got to know her very well over the course of a couple of years. And I thought she was treated very disrespectfully by them,’ referring to Harry and Meghan.
Mr Trump said: ‘I would say although she wouldn’t show it because she was strong and smart, I would imagine they broke her heart.
‘The things that they were saying were so bad and so horrible. And she was in her 90s and hearing this stuff. I think they broke her heart. I think they really hurt her’.
The comments by Mr Trump are his latest attack on the Sussexes but serve as a warning shot given he is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate and polls show he is leading Joe Biden by five points.
Interviewed for GB News by Nigel Farage last Tuesday, Donald Trump said Harry should not get ‘special privileges’ if it turns out he lied
Harry has said he is considering becoming a US citizen
Harry has admitted to using cocaine and marijuana in the past, once saying that cannabis helped heal the trauma of his mother’s death.
The Duke said that using ayahuasca, the psychedelic drug, he realised that his mother wanted him to be ‘happy’.
Prince Harry’s book, Spare
The issue was back in the news following Harry’s February interview with Good Morning America which raised the issue of him seeking US citizenship.
‘The American citizenship is a thought that has crossed my mind but certainly not something that’s a high priority for me right now,’ he said.
Anyone applying for a visa to live and work in America has to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the question: ‘Are you or have you ever been a drug abuser or addict?’
Harry’s US visa application in March 2020 could show he ticked the ‘no’ box on questions about his drug use, The Heritage Foundation claims.
The US immigration authorities routinely ask about drug use on its visa applications, and it has been linked to travel headaches for celebrities, including Nigella Lawson, Amy Winehouse, and Kate Moss.
Acknowledgement of past drug use doesn’t necessarily result in a visa rejection or bar people from entering or staying in the country.
