What countries don’t allow entry to convicted felons? Full list of places Trump can’t visit
One interesting detail from Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts is that he may be banned from travelling to certain countries. Here’s a look where.
The guilty verdicts handed down by 12 of his peers that sat on the Manhattan jury made Donald Trump the first former US president to be convicted of a crime. He will be sentenced 11 July on the 34 felony counts at which time he has said he will appeal the ruling.
That process will take several months and could, in time, make its way to the US Supreme Court. But that almost certainly will not happen before the 2024 general elections. As Trump is the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican ticket his felony conviction has raised a number of questions.
People are wondering how it will affect his run for president; if he can he vote in the election; will he go to prison? One interesting detail that was raised by a Newsweek article is that Trump, as a convicted felon, may be banned from traveling to 37 countries.
What countries don’t allow entry to convicted felons? Full list of places Trump can’t visit
Like the United States, there are 15 other countries that do not allow convicted felons entry into their territory according to the World Population Review cited in Newsweek. Those include Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. Trump owns a golf course in the last of those countries up in Scotland which he technically will now be unable to visit.
There are another 22 countries that do not actively check whether someone is a convicted felon at a port of entry but can deny entry if its found that an individual has a felon on their criminal record. That is the case in Ireland where Trump has another golf course.
Here are the countries in both categories.
Don’t allow convicted felons to enter
Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Macau, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan and the United Kingdom
Deny entry if it’s discovered a person is a convicted felon
Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates
Trump was convicted in the first criminal case of the four in which he has been charged. It was brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who had accused Trump of falsifying business documents related to reimbursing his then-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for the $130,000 that had been paid to Stormy Daniels, a porn star.
Normally that would’ve been a misdemeanor, but it was done as part of another crime, illegally influencing the 2016 presidential election, which bumped the charges up to a felony. She claims that she had sex with Trump at a golfing tournament in 2006 and was looking to sell her story prior to the election.
While David Pecker, the head of the publisher of the National Enquirer in 2016 had paid another woman, former Playmate Karen McDougal, who claimed to have had an affair with Trump in a ‘catch-and-kill’ scheme he had organized with the then-candidate for president, he refused to make the payments to Daniels.
Trump put off paying the adult film star himself until the Access Hollywood tape came out where he was caught on a hot microphone saying that a man like him could get away with sexual assault and grope women’s genitals. The damage to his presidential run of that audio, prompted him to order Cohen to pay Daniels, according to the case laid out by prosecutors, to avoid any further harm to his chances of winning in 2016.