Trillanes
There is no need to launch a coup d’ etat to topple the Duterte administration when it is “self-destructing” anyway, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said on Tuesday as he vehemently denied any involvement in such plots.
“Hindi po totoo yan . Alam mo hindi mo na kailangang mag coup sa gobyernong ito dahil nagsasarili naman di ba?” said Trillanes, who led the failed mutiny against then president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
“They are self-destructing….What’s unfortunate is they are dragging the whole country down. Ngayon sinasabi nila (Now they say) the hearings are the source of negativity dito sa Pilipinas (in the {Philippines)? Hindi, yung Presidente nila. Murahin mo lahat, pano na (no, it’s their President. [He has] cursed everyone, so how is it going to be)?” he said.
Trillanes believes that the armed forces remains intact, owing it to former president Benigno Aquino III’s efforts to professionalize its ranks.
“Hindi yan magkakahati-hati. They will move as one and they will follow the chain of command for as long as the chain of command is true to their mandate sa estado at sa ating mga kababayan (to the state and to our countrymen),” he said.