U.S. President Donald Trump says he has no plans to deport Prince Harry, saying the self-exiled royal has “enough problems” along with his wife, Meghan Markle.
Trump’s swipe at Markle got here during an interview with the Recent York Post, which asked if the president planned to kick the prince in a foreign country amid ongoing questions on his immigration status.
“I don’t want to try this. I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems along with his wife. She’s terrible,” he told the Post.
The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind Project 2025, the presidency blueprint that Trump has been heavily mirroring within the early weeks of his second term, has been pushing to know more in regards to the prince’s immigration status and records ever because the royal admitted to using drugs previously in his memoir, Spare.
The think tank wants Harry’s immigration paperwork released, arguing there’s a possibility the Duke of Sussex lied on his forms about his past drug use or received special treatment from Joe Biden’s administration to enter the U.S.
FILE – Prince Harry, Joe Biden and Jill Biden cheer on the teams as the usA. competes against the Netherlands within the wheelchair basketball finals in the course of the Invictus Games 2017 at Mattamy Athletic Centre on Sept. 30, 2017 in Toronto.
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They need to know so badly, actually, that they sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after it rejected the Heritage Foundation’s Freedom of Information Act request to release Harry’s record.
In 2023, the DHS request was declined, but a judge this week said he continues to be considering the case.
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On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols focused largely on find out how to handle a trio of sworn statements from DHS officials on why the agency was fighting the records request.
Those statements haven’t been seen by the Heritage legal team, and Nichols is considering whether to release part or all of those declarations to the Heritage Foundation. The judge — who has been shown some, but not all, of Harry’s immigration records — said he’s also considering whether to request more records from the federal government and whether to call in an out of doors expert as a consultant.
The prince shouldn’t be a celebration within the lawsuit.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have voiced their disapproval of Trump through the years.
In 2016, before she had even met Harry, Markle called the then-new president a “misogynist” and “divisive” during an interview with Larry Wilmore.
Years later, in 2019, before a presidential visit to the U.K., Trump dismissed her comments, saying: “I didn’t know she was nasty.” A 12 months later, he said, “I’m not a fan of her. I wish numerous luck to Harry, he’s going to wish it.”
When the subsequent election rolled around, as Trump faced off against Biden, Harry appeared in a video, urging people not only to vote but in addition to “reject hate speech, misinformation, and online negativity” — words that many took to be a thinly veiled swipe at Trump.
Last 12 months, before he was elected, Trump told Express U.S. tabloid that he wouldn’t “protect” Harry.
FILE – Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, react as Lagos state Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (unseen), gives a speech on the State Governor House in Lagos on May 12, 2024 as they visit Nigeria as a part of celebrations of the Invictus Games anniversary.
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“I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He could be on his own if it was all the way down to me.”
Trump, in his Friday interview with the Recent York Post, went on to state he thinks “poor Harry” is “whipped” by Markle.
Trump did, nonetheless, take a moment to praise Harry’s older brother, Prince William, whom he met privately in December 2024 on the reopening ceremony of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
“I believe William is an incredible young man,” he said.
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