Make America Royalty-Free Again: Donald Trump Election Victory Puts Prince Harry in a 'Visa Tight Spot'
Harry, Duke of Sussex, may get his reported wish to return to Britain as President-elect Donald Trump could reportedly push agencies to investigate the Duke's visa.
Donald Trump stunned the world by winning the 2024 U.S. presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris.
As the nation anticipates his second term, attention has shifted to Prince Harry’s ongoing visa troubles, fueled by Trump’s apparent dislike of the fiery-haired prince.
When asked by an outlet if the Duke would get "special privileges" if he lied on his 2020 visa application, the President-elect replied, "No. We'll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they'll have to take appropriate action."
This led a U.S. constitutional historian to spill how the American head of state and government has "formidable powers," which Trump "would utilize" against the Duke elected.
However, the "how" remains murky with numerous analysts providing differing opinions on just what the 45th and 47th U.S. president could do if the royal rebel lied on the form after admitting to past substance abuse in his memoir Spare. The application specifically asks an applicant about current and former drug use of any kind.
"Trump has never taken a non-prescribed drug, smoked a cigarette nor had a sip of alcohol in his entire life," a Mar-a-Lago insider dished. "He doesn't particularly care for addicts who continue to lie."
Immigration attorney Christi Hufford Jackson countered this claim by assessing, "Could Trump say 'I want you to look into his previous application?' I don’t think he would have grounds to do so here."
She added, "But could a president push buttons below and put pressure on a government agency which reports to him to get it re-examined? Potentially. The problem is that this is completely unchartered territory."
The former working royal, who earned the nickname "Harry Pothead" by the British press in the 2000s, admitted to taking cocaine, cannabis and magic mushrooms in his autobiography.
"I stared at the bin," Harry wrote about his experience with mushrooms. "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."
The prince was also a headline-maker during his late teens and twenties, which included a brawl with a paparazzo outside a London nightclub in 2004.
There was also a cheating scandal in 2002 when it was revealed Eton College may have fabricated the senior royal's grades to ensure he could get into the renowned Sandhurst Military Academy. And it is the possibility of lies that now place HRH in a precarious position.
"Harry may have included drug use on his application form," royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams shared to an outlet. "If he hasn't, it will unquestionably make headlines, and that will not be beneficial so far as the Sussexes are concerned."
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Daily Mirror reported on the insider revelations.
