‘Senator’ Antonio Trillanes seemingly uses the Senate as a base for launching his numerous personal vendettas.
Members of the Philippine Opposition are getting desperate. They are down to using their last bullet, which is to paint President Rodrigo Duterte as corrupt. Their allies in mainstream media are trying their best to help drive that message. You can see it in their headlines. “Ombudsman probes Duterte family’s wealth” says one of the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s headlines. “AMLC’s bank records on Duterte show P1-B flow of money – Ombudsman” says another from Rappler. It’s quite apparent that they worded the headlines to effect maximum impact on the readers. After all, it has worked against their enemies in the past, so why not try it against Duterte, right?
I’m all for investigation of alleged ill-gotten wealth, but the problem I see in this scenario is, it should have been done before the election. It’s a bit late now that Duterte is PRESIDENT. I consider it a dumb move since he is immune from lawsuit while he is in office anyway. But of course the Opposition would try every trick in the book to change public perception. After all, their motto is “Doesn’t have to be true. Just needs to LOOK like that”.
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Yes, members of the Opposition are hell-bent on destroying Duterte’s image even if it means destroying the fabric of Philippine society along with it. It doesn’t matter if they use lies and negative propaganda to bring Duterte down as long as they achieve their goal. That says a lot about the kind of people they are – lacking in principles and vindictive. They think the end justifies the means.
Even before the office of the Ombudsman requested the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to divulge the final report on the Duterte family’s bank transaction records when Mr. Duterte was mayor of Davao City, Senator Antonio Trillanes already had copies of the President’s bank account details. AMLC already issued a statement saying they did not give information to Trillanes. The real question is where did Trillanes get his information? Does he have a contact with the AMLC? If so, whoever that person is breached Duterte’s privacy. It seems Trillanes is using dozens of his hired “consultants”, which could include “small ladies” to get him the goods on his enemies. Did the Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao Arthur Carandang even ask Trillanes where he got his information?
Some people are baffled as to why people like Trillanes can get away with his appalling behavior. He’s like a brat who throws a tantrum when he doesn’t get his way. He’s even threatened to unseat Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel if the latter doesn’t replace his other nemesis in the senate, Senator Richard Gordon as the Blue Ribbon Committee Chairman. Trillanes thinks he is that influential. Perhaps he’s got the goods on the other senators as well. It could explain why they tolerate his bullying tactics. Trillanes doesn’t even care if he drags along the name of a respected organization like the Red Cross in his effort to damage Gordon’s reputation. Trillanes promised to expose Gordon’s alleged corruption involving his Chairmanship of the humanitarian charity organization.
Trillanes’s empty threats merely expose him as a vile and destructive person. Trillanes doesn’t function as a senator anymore. I don’t think he ever did. He seems to be functioning as some kind of lead investigator. Unfortunately, he’s only investigating his enemies.
His actions do not benefit the public, only his personal interests and that of his allies. Trillanes will eventually fall on his own sword.
The Opposition’s inconsistencies are so blatantly obvious. If these people are after what’s good for the country, they should also clamor for investigation of Commission on Elections Chairman Andres Bautista’s alleged hidden wealth. Trillanes in particular is very quiet about Bautista’s shenanigans. They actually prefer to sweep that issue under the rug because there is a lot at stake if Bautista is proven to have accepted money in exchange for facilitating the alleged electoral fraud in the last Presidential Elections. Current Vice President Leni Robredo could be unseated. They wouldn’t want that. And of course they prefer him to stay on as Chairman of COMELEC since he can still continue to “help” out his allies “win” in the next election.
We can only hope the public has learned from the impeachment trial of the late former Chief Justice Renato Corona. The Liberal Party and their allies in media also used sensationalized headlines in deceiving the public into believing Corona had millions in his bank account. In the end, the charges of ill-gotten wealth were not proven, but Corona was still impeached because the acting senator-judges were also gullible enough to believe the unsubstantiated power-point presentations showing his said millions of bank deposits.
In a recent development, the AMLC actually denied giving the office of the Ombudsman records of Duterte’s bank details. The agency is also baffled as to where Carandang got his information. Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo also warned Carangdang should not have released details while investigation is ongoing or he could face administrative charges:
AMLC added that it is still evaluating the August 17 request made by Carandang which it received on September 6, requesting the body to initiate an investigation on Duterte’s accounts.
“We have yet to evaluate the request, and the initiation of an investigation, as well as the release of any report on the subject will depend on such evaluation. Suffice it to state that in the attachment to the Complaint, the alleged debits and credits representing outflows and inflows of funds were added together, thus, the resulting total amounts are wrong and misleading,” AMLC said.
Carandang, who is a relative of a former Malacanang Presidential Spokesman Ricky Carangdang during former BS Aquino’s term, could be “helping” Trillanes bring Duterte down by providing false and malicious information.
In the Opposition’s desperation, they are getting sloppy or sloppier. They probably assume most people want to see Duterte ousted. But like what I always say, if your agenda is to protect the interests of the people, lies and all other bullshit thrown at you will not stick.
In life, things are not always what they seem.
He’s a political attack dog that got pardoned by his master, he doesn’t need to be consistent with his lies, he just needs to be loud and have the media all over him to repeat his smears and hope he baits his targets. If the definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over again, then he is insane if he really thinks he’ll get the political enemies of his Yellow Masters out of power like he did with his attacks on the GMA administration officials like Angelo Reyes, or maybe like the show trial with Chief Justice Corona that he didn’t show shame or a damn when it was all lies, or maybe with Jojomar Binay with his constant pre-election attacks.
People are asking, “why haven’t the Marcoses/other corrupt politicians been jailed yet?” Because supposed Anti-Marcoses/anti-corruption politicians are themselves corrupt and liars. And the “disente” swallows it all, hook, like and sinker.
When you say that “Trillanes will fall on his own sword”, do you mean literally or figuratively? Because I prefer the former
You can also try reading on this one:
So Fake News Isn’t Fake News When It’s From The Merged Opposition Against Duterte?
Trilling Triplanes will continue to act weird and create trouble to attract attention and divert the true issues…
Trilling Trillanes will continue to his weird behaviors, childish ways, immature, in order to create trouble and divert the true issues of our country. The Aquino cojuangco propaganda media will reinforce his tactics !
The weird acting of “Trililing” Trillanes is a tool to destabilize the administration of Pres. Duterte; and make the phony Vice President Leni Robredo, as President. This will cover up the tremendous corruption and graft cases of the previous Aquino regime. Carpio Morales, the Ombudsman Judge ia a ruuning dog of Aquino. Lourdes Serreno is another Bitch of Aquino.
No solution , other than change the government to Federal Republic of the Philippines. Like the government of Germany.
Junk the Cory Aquino constitution, which serves the Aquino Cojuangco political axis and the Feudal Oligarchs.
Abolish the Office of the Vice Presidents; and Senators andCongressmen.
We have to prosecute vigorously the Andres “Si Latigo” Bautista, electoral fraud case, nd his unexplained wealth cases !
Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.
How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.
It’s obvious the yellows are scraping bottom. This latest stunt by Deputy Ombudsman Carandang adding up all the debits and credits of the Duterte family bank accounts instead of netting them out is absolutely hilarious.
Even more hilarious is Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales’s pig-headed defense of Carandang despite the AMLC’s statement denying they gave any records to Carandang, and pointing out the ridiculous errors in his calculations.
Pakapalan na lang ng mukha ang labanan, right Conchita? Kung walang ebidensiya, daanin na lang sa tigas ng mukha at pag-iingay sa media. Mrs. Morales, you and Trilliling are really meant for each other.
Kiko Pangilinan’s moronic grade-school stunt with Resolution 516 at the Senate was the other yellow comedy highlight of the week.
I died laughing watching Pangilinan on the news desperately trying to deny that he purposely excluded the other senators from signing the reso.
Pangilinan was able to get Leila de Lima, who is in jail, to sign the resolution. Yet he wants us to believe he just “accidentally” missed the seven senators who were just a few steps from your office. Seven senators who all just happened to be non-yellows.
Gee, what a “coincidence”. Just like that LP-aligned anti-Duterte blog slamming the seven senators right on cue was just a “coincidence”.
Desperation is making the yellows sloppy. They can’t even hide their coordinated “galawang dilaw” moves anymore.
President Duterte should follow the example of former President Gloria Arroyo and just have his spokesmen deal with the cheap, moronic stunts of the yellows. By responding to them directly, he is lending credence to their ludicrous antics, which is exactly what they want. Duterte needs to stop letting the yellows jerk him around and put him on the defensive.
The yellows are obviously working overtime to provoke the President and stress him out with their constant infuriating attacks, hoping that if they agitate him long enough, he will crack mentally or his health will suffer.
Don’t fall for it, Mr. President. Let your people deal with these barking dogs, and just focus on running the country.
And if you must crush these dogs, please go ahead. Don’t worry about looking like a dictator. We voted for you precisely because of your iron fist. Use it.
Let the media and the yellows howl all they want. They scream the loudest, but in truth they represent only a tiny fraction of this country. No one cares about them. Stop letting them dictate the agenda of this country.
This guy would only mean to his cohorts but never ever the masses or people with clear perspective and views in mind which already seen in his actions and antics from the past! All barking but no significant..