MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV is hoping that Filipinos have now become enlightened that the presidential candidate they picked in last year’s polls has been fooling them since the 2016 campaign period.
“Talagang pahiyang pahiya, bistadong bistado, huling huli sa pagsisinungaling at paggawa ng kwento. Ngayon, sana maliwanangan na ang mga kababayan natin. No’ng panahon palang ng kampanya niloloko na kayo. Hanggang ngayon niloloko eh. Nasasa inyo ‘yan kung patuloy na nagpapaloko pa rin kayo,” Trillanes said on Wednesday, Sept. 20.
[He was really shamed, he was caught lying and inventing a story. Now, I hope that our fellow Filipinos will already be enlightened. You were already being fooled even during the campaign period. Even up to now. It’s up to you if you want to be fooled continuously.]
The senator issued the statement a day after proving that he had no secret bank accounts in Singapore. Also on Tuesday, during a television interview, President Rodrigo Duterte admitted that he “invented” at least one bank account number that he had attributed to Trillanes.
‘Isolated case, unorthodox style’
Meanwhile, Malacañang defended Duterte on Wednesday.
Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the President’s admission that he had invented one of the bank account numbers was an “isolated case.”
“(H)e intentionally did that. But of course, first and foremost, he comes out in the open. He does not hide it, rightly so, in other words, he’s quite transparent about his actions,” said Abella.
Abella reminded the public that every politician has his own style of handling issues and that Duterte’s method was unconventional.
“May kanya-kanya pong style. As we very well know, the President is quite unorthodox, and rather out of the box when he deals…Unorthodox as it may seem, on the whole, apparently, the impact of his actions tend to be economically viable,” he said.
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