Donald Trump’s son has revealed how his father would approach Prince Harry’s US visa row if he wins the Election, after the Presidential hopeful previously suggested deporting the prince.
Last week, the battle over Harry’s US visa reignited again when lawyers argued that the court battle to make his application public should be reopened because the US government made certain submissions in secret.
The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation called for the Government to release records about how the Duke disclosed his history of drug usage, after he admitted to using marijuana, cocaine and psychedelic mushrooms in his explosive memoir Spare.
Although a judge ruled that the details of Harry’s application should remain private, Donald Trump previously suggested that the Duke could face deportation if he is found to have lied about his drug habit on his visa request.
But Trump’s son Eric has now suggested an alternative, although equally brutal, future may await the Sussexes. The third child of the Republican candidate suggested that Harry’s visa would be safe because “no one cares” about him and that his wife Meghan is “pretty unpopular”.
Eric told MailOnline : “Truthfully I don’t give a damn about Prince Harry and I don’t think this country does either. My father loved the Queen and I think the monarchy is an incredibly beautiful thing.” He added: “‘I don’t give a damn if he did drugs. It means nothing. I can tell you that our father and our entire family has tremendous respect for the monarchy.”
The businessman added that Harry had “gone off the deep end and it’s sad to watch”, but praised his brother Prince William and applauded Kate for being “such a rock in the next generation of the family”.
Eric’s comments come a week after the Heritage Foundation brought a lawsuit against the Department for Homeland Security because it was not granted access to private submissions made to the judge by the Biden administration.
The 13-page motion stresses that there is “ample evidence of agency bad faith”, which “severely compromises [Heritage’s] ability to prepare arguments on appeal”.
The think tank believes that the details of Harry’s visa application is a crucial matter of public interest, because applicants who have a prolific history of drug use can be denied access to the country on security grounds. Lying about drug use in a visa application is considered fraud, and can result in the individual being deported or banned from entering the United States.
Harry has previously been open about his former relationship with drugs, confessing that cocaine “didn’t do anything for me” and marijuana “really did help me”in his controversial memoir. He also recounts an experience with magic mushrooms, saying: “I stared at the bin. It stared back. ‘What-staring? ‘ Then it became… a head. I stepped on the pedal and the head opened its mouth. A huge open grin.”
Opening up about his use of hallucinogens during an interview with trauma expert Gabor Maté, Harry explained: “It was the cleaning of the windscreen, the removal of life’s filters — these layers of filters. It removed it all for me and brought me a sense of relaxation, relief, comfort, a lightness that I managed to hold back for a period of time.”
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