A local dog-groomer is bemused by the suggestion that he may not be allowed to enter the U.S. in light of his comments in a Facebook post that he couldn’t even remember making.
Alex O’Driscoll was recently visited by the RCMP who were following up on a comment he made more than a year ago regarding U.S. President Donald Trump.
O’Driscoll says he was left in disbelief after the Mounties paid him a visit.
“Honestly, I laughed,” says O’Driscoll. “‘This can’t be real; it has to be a joke,'” is what he thought. “‘There’s no way that the RCMP is being directed by the Secret Service to investigate someone in Newfoundland for threatening Trump'”
O’Driscoll had commented on a hypothetical post which asked what would happen if Trump actually invaded Canada. O’Driscoll, who deleted his Facebook account more than a year ago, was surprised that the matter was coming up now.
“The Secret Service had no proof that it was me. All they had was something they saw on Facebook. They didn’t provide any proof to the RCMP – no screen shots, no printed out piece of paper with my comment on it, they had nothing. They just said ‘okay this is Alex O’Driscoll go investigate him.'”
The RCMP deemed he was not a security risk, but did warn that he might not be allowed to enter the U.S. which he jokes, is fine with him.
















