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17-03-2025
- Politics
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Homeland Security ordered to release Prince Harry's immigration application
March 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge ruled Prince Harry's immigration application must be released by Tuesday to determine whether he disclosed drug use before coming to America. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019, gave the deadline to the Department of Homeland Security. The federal agency plans to release a redacted version of the application, NBC and USA Today reported. The federal government in the past has said the "request does not meet the public interest standard set forth" in Freedom of Information Act guidelines. In September 2024, the same judge in Washington agreed with the government, ruling against the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that had been seeking the records for several years under the act. The Heritage Foundation appealed and the judge agreed in February to release the forms with redactions, something the agency also would abide by as long as the disclosure would not violate Harry's privacy. "Those redactions appearing appropriate, the government is ordered to lodge on the docket the redacted versions of those documents no later than March 18, 2025," Nichols said Saturday. The Heritage Foundation published Project 25, a policy guide mirroring many of Trump's policies. The think tank has alleged Duke of Sussex may have concealed past drug use that would have disqualified him from obtaining a U.S. visa. Writing in his 2023 memoir, "Spare," Harry recalled several times he snorted cocaine, starting when he was 17, and experimented with psychedelics in the 2000s. He also said he smoked marijuana, including "an entire shopping bag of weed." This gave him a "party-boy image." "It wasn't much fun, and it didn't make me particularly happy, as it seemed to make everyone around me, but it did make me feel different, and that was the main goal," he wrote. The 42-year-old duke has not been available for comment to media outlets. Prince Harry stepped away from the royal family in early 2020, and first moved from England to Canada for a short time. The family, including his wife, Megan Markle, and their children, Archie and Lilibet, now live in Montecito, Calif., near Santa Barbara. President Donald Trump has said he won't seek to have Prince Harry removed from the United States. "I don't want to do that," Trump told The New York Post in February. "I'll leave him alone. He's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible." Meghan has labeled Trump as a "misogynist."
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Politics
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A Republican Congressman Just Revealed The Truth About Project 2025
One of President Trump's most obvious lies of the 2024 presidential campaign was just exposed … by a Republican congressman. Project 2025, the nearly one thousand page blueprint for a potential Trump administration, became a lightning rod during the campaign cycle when Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris and her allies pointed out it contained a series of shocking and extreme policy proposals designed to aggressively expand the limits of presidential power and impose a right wing social agenda. Faced with the criticism, Trump repeatedly insisted he had 'nothing to do with Project 25.' However, now that Trump is in office, Rep. John Rose (R-TN) has essentially admitted that was not true at all. In fact, Rose credited Project 2025 with helping Trump hit the ground running with a spate of executive orders that mirror many of the authoritarian and retrograde ideas presented in the document. 'How do you think the president was prepared to issue all these executive orders?' Rose said in an interview with the Tennessee publication the Williamson Scene. 'How do you think they were prepared to make all of these appointments in such quick succession after he got into office? Project 2025.' Rose's comments last week came just before he launched a gubernatorial campaign in his home state. His office and the White House did not immediately respond to TPM's requests for comment. Of course, Trump's efforts to distance himself from Project 2025 were always laughable. The Heritage Foundation-led effort, which included a database of possible hires along with the policy blueprint, was packed with Trump's associates and staffers from his first administration. Since his victory in last year's election, Trump has also built out his current team with a bunch of Project 2025 authors and contributors. The roster of Project 2025 alums in the second Trump administration includes Russell Vought, who authored a chapter detailing 'a plan for the executive branch' and is now leading the powerful Office of Management and Budget, which was a core part of his vision for the White House. Naturally, Trump and the many Project 2025 alums in his administrations have, thus far, implemented an agenda that closely matches the right-wing blueprint. There's nothing surprising about Rose's remarks. What's notable is that he said the quiet part out loud. Dems Who Want Assurances Trump Will Respect Fed Funding And GOP Hardliners Oppose 'Clean' CR USAID Whistleblower Boldly Drops Truth Bomb On Trump Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal They Only Have One Move Stocks Post Biggest Loss of the Year on Trump's Tariff Plans Top FBI official forced out after criticizing Trump pursuit of agents who investigated Jan. 6 Spending bill text expected over weekend, Republicans say
