The man all but set to become the Republican candidate at this year’s US presidential election has slammed Prince Harry for ‘attacking’ the British Royal Family.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington DC yesterday, Donald Trump said Prince Harry would be ‘on his own’ with his current visa troubles if the former president proves victorious at the polls in November.
After renouncing his royal duties four years ago to move to California, Harry is understood to be mulling the possibility of becoming a permanent citizen, but has become subject of a legal challenge from a conservative think-tank after admitting to taking illegal drugs in his controversial memoir, Spare.
Speaking the the Daily Express in Maryland yesterday, Trump said: ‘I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable.
‘He would be on his own if it was down to me.’
It follows after Trump won the Republican primary in South Carolina, beating opponent Nikki Haley in her home state and all but securing his place as the party’s candidate for this year’s election in November.
Haley is facing increased pressure to bow out of the race but has said she will soldier on despite losing in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and the US Virgin Islands – all contests widely perceived as crucial for candidacy.
Addressing the crowd in Maryland after his latest victory, Trump said: ‘I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now.
‘You can celebrate for about 15 minutes, but then we have to get back to work.’
It has only happened once since 1980 that a Republican winner in South Carolina has not gone on to be the party’s nominee in a presidential race, meaning Trump is now all but certain to face Biden in the elections.
Trump and his allies have since made dramatic claims that Biden has catastrophically weakened the US’s standing on the world stage – with the billionaire, who’s currently defending himself against a raft of criminal charges, claiming the country would ‘lose World War III’ if Biden remains president.
Describing Biden as ‘the crookedest most incompetent president in the history of our country’, Trump also warned that gangs will ‘explode’ into the suburbs, that ‘weaponised law enforcement’ will hunt down conservative thinkers and that Hamas will ‘terrorise’ the streets unless he wins the presidency in November.
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