Trillanes warns Duterte: You will go also go through this process

FILE: ARRESTED. Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (2nd from right) submits himself to police officers, led by National Capital Region Police Office chief, Director Guillermo Eleazar (3rd from right), at the Senate premises on Tuesday (Sept. 25, 2018). Trillanes proceeded to Makati Police headquarters for booking process and posting of PHP200,000 bail for a rebellion case. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)

Senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV hoped that President Rodrigo Duterte was watching him undergo the booking procedure as he said that the Chief Executive will also experience it soon.

Without any trace of fear, Trillanes told this to reporters on Tuesday, September 26, after posting a P200,000 bail before the Makati City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 150.

“Sana sinusubaybayan niya ‘yung proseso dahil gagawin at gagawin niya ‘yon. ‘Yung prosesong ganon… Ibu-book siya, aarestuhin siya. ‘Yun ang haharapin mo Mr. Duterte (I hope he is watching the process because he will also do this soon. The process where he will undergo booking procedures and be arrested. That is what you will face, Mr. Duterte),” Trillanes said in a press briefing at the Senate.

On the same day, Makati RTC Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda granted the motion of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue a warrant of arrest and a hold departure order against Trillanes over his rebellion case in 2007.

The DOJ’s petition came after Duterte, through Proclamation No. 572, revoked the amnesty granted to the senator by the administration of his predecessor.

While he may be the talk of the town this time, Trillanes believes that Duterte will soon be held accountable for his crimes.

“Kay Mr. Duterte, baluktutin mo na ang kailangan mong baluktutin. Isagasa mo na lahat ng [dapat] isagasa, pero ‘yung kasamaan na pinaghahari mo dito sa ating bayan ay hindi ‘yan mananaig (To Mr. Duterte, you can bend anything you need to bend.

You can hit whatever you want to hit, but your reign of evil in the country will not prevail),” he said.

“Kung maililigpit mo man ako, meron at merong papalit sa akin at sa dakong huli ikaw rin ang matatalo at harapin mo ‘yung mga kasalanan na ginawa mo (If you are able to get rid of me, there will always be someone who will replace me and in the end, you will lose and you will face the consequences of your sins),” he added.

Malacañang, however, taunted the opposition senator saying that he was ‘dreaming’ if he thinks that the President will experience the same fate as him in the future.

“Ang pagkakaiba po nila, naging piskal po ang ating Presidente, abogado po ang ating Presidente. Alam niya ang ginagawa niya, alam niya ang batas (The difference between them is that the President became a fiscal, he is a lawyer. He knows what he is doing, he knows the law),” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr. told dzMM.

Roque also denied that Trillanes was subjected to political persecution.