“We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they’ll have to take appropriate action.”
Pressed on whether that would mean “not staying in America”, he replied: “Oh I don’t know. You’ll have to tell me. You just have to tell me.”
The Duke of Sussex’s immigration status has become the subject of a lawsuit by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, which is suing the government to release his immigration forms.
Lawyers for the US government have said that his description of taking narcotics in the memoir is “not proof he took drugs”.
Mr Trump said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to leave Britain had insulted the late Queen, describing their decision as a “great disrespect done to a person that I got to know very well”.
“She was unbelievable, and I thought she was treated very disrespectfully by them,” he said.
“I would say, although she wouldn’t show it because she was strong and smart, I would imagine they broke her heart.
“The things that they were saying were so bad and so horrible. And she was in her nineties and hearing this stuff. I think they broke her heart. I think they really hurt her.”
‘I’m a different kind of environmentalist’
It is rare for Mr Trump to give an interview to a British news outlet, preferring instead to speak to conservative networks in the US.
Mr Farage, the former Ukip and Brexit Party leader, is a friend of the former president and has suggested he would like to serve as the UK’s ambassador to the US under a Trump administration.
Asked for his views on the King, Mr Trump said on Mr Farage’s programme that he and the monarch have “different views” on environmental policy, but “got along”.
“He was a little bit more into environmental restriction than I am,” he said.
“I’m an environmentalist, I feel in a true sense. But I’m a different kind of environmentalist. You know, I want to get things built, I want to get things done.
“He was very much into the environment. And he meant it from the heart.”
Asked whether he would continue to support the Nato alliance if he wins in November’s presidential election, Mr Trump said he would “100 per cent” defend other countries if they meet defence spending commitments.
“Why should we guard these countries that have a lot of money?” he said.
“The United States was paying for most of Nato. When I went there, I had it out with them. And now they stopped paying again.”
In a bizarre tangent, the presumptive Republican nominee also claimed the Democrats have allowed “15 million people” into the country during Joe Biden’s administration.
“15 million people that come in from prisons, they come from prisons, many of them, they come from mental institutions and insane asylums like Silence of the Lambs,” he said.
“Hannibal Lecter, I wonder if he’s one of the terrorists coming into our country totally unchecked.”
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