Image from dutertecayetano.com- The senator was blasted by Davao City mayor over secret bank account accusations
- Duterte labeled him an ‘askal’ paid by his enemies to attack him
- He also called Trillanes’ source a figment of his imagination
MANILA, Philippines – Turning the tables on his chief tormentor, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte accused Sen. Antonio Trillanes of making up his source just so he could falsely accuse him of owning secret bank accounts containing millions.
“Joseph de Mesa is fictitious — an invention of Trillanes and those who are behind the dirty tactics against me,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted him as saying.
The senator earlier mentioned De Mesa as the source who provided him the documents pertaining to Duterte’s alleged secret multi-million peso account at the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI).
However, Duterte said Trillanes was merely being paid by his opponents to destroy his reputation and vowed not to waste his time with him any longer.
“From now on, I will not answer. He is a plain ‘askal’. I will not, from now on, answer,” he said. “He was at the PMA (Philippine Military Academy) but he staged a mutiny. He is rude. He was exonerated and freed and made into a street dog.”
The mayor also essentially told Trillanes he wouldn’t have had to ask the grassroots for help with his campaign if he had the billions to fund a national campaign machinery.
“If I have billions of money, and I’m a 71-year-old guy running for president, if I had that money, I would have bought a plane and helicopters. Why would I ask for your (public) help?” he wondered.
Duterte and Trillanes have been at loggerheads after the latter accused the former of secretly keeping a bank account worth millions. In turn, Duterte has dismissed the allegations as nothing more than black propaganda.
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