The lawyer acting for the Heritage Foundation in its unsuccessful efforts to force the U.S. government to publish Prince Harry’s responses to questions about whether he used illegal drugs on his visa application said Wednesday that Harry should “just go home” as he “clearly hates” America and is “furious” with voters for electing Donald Trump.
Samuel Dewey, the D.C. lawyer whose efforts to get all Harry’s immigration papers published have so far ended in failure (most recently on Tuesday when a release of heavily redacted documents said that the government had acted correctly in Harry’s case), made the comments in remarks to The Daily Mail.
Dewey also said that Heritage has filed a fresh lawsuit to obtain the Duke’s immigration papers to find out whether he lied about his drug use on the forms.
The right-wing think tank, which also authored the controversial Project 2025 plan, argues that Harry’s admission of drug use would usually disqualify an individual from obtaining a visa. They argue Harry therefore either lied or received a special waiver from the Biden administration when moving to the U.S.
Harry, in his bestselling memoir Spare, perhaps unwisely boasted of using cocaine, magic mushrooms, marijuana, and ayahuasca.
Heavily redacted documents published by a U.S. court Tuesday failed to shed any light on whether or not the former party prince declared he had used drugs when he emigrated to the United States. However, one section of text stated that there was no “evidence of government misconduct” and that the records did “not support such an allegation but show the regulatory process involved in reviewing and granting immigration benefits was done in compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act, and applicable rules and regulations.”
Speaking to DailyMail.com, Dewey said Harry “really ought to go” from America, having made his opposition to Donald Trump very clear, most recently in a pointed comment at an Invictus Games rally about some world leaders having “weak moral character.”
Dewey said: “He’s in a country he clearly hates. He’s clearly furious at the American voters and attacking them for the result of the 2024 election. Harry should just go home.”
After the release of the DHS records, Nile Gardiner, Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at Heritage, told the Daily Beast: “The fight continues, I think it’s just a matter of time until the new administration reveals Prince Harry’s immigration records.”
The Daily Beast has previously reported on the risk Harry could face from Trump.
An immigration lawyer told the Daily Beast that Harry could be vulnerable to a politically motivated attack on his residential status, saying: “Department of State decisions are discretionary and very susceptible to political influence. His visa could be canceled. He could be denied entry upon return to the U.S. from foreign travel for inadmissibility due to prior drug usage, despite an unexpired visa in his passport. There are many scenarios where political influence could impact Harry’s ability to re-enter the U.S.”
British TV star Nigella Lawson was denied entry to the U.S. over admissions of drug use in 2013.
The Sussex-Trump feud dates back to a 2016 Comedy Central show in which Meghan, then an actress and not linked to Harry, expressed her contempt for Trump, labeling him “misogynistic” and “divisive.”
Trump later referred to her comment as “nasty” and in 2022, Trump told Piers Morgan: “Harry is whipped like no person I think I’ve ever seen.”
He predicted the couple would divorce, saying, “It’ll end, and it’ll end bad… I want to know what’s going to happen when Harry decides he’s had enough of being bossed around… Or maybe when she decides that she likes some other guy better. I want to know what’s going to happen when it ends, OK?”
Eric Trump earlier this year called the duke and duchess “spoiled apples,” adding, “You can happily have those two. We might not want them anymore; it feels like they’re on an island of their own.”
Trump recently said he would not deport Harry because “he’s got enough problems with his wife,” however the visa application still has the potential to embarrass him if ever published.
