{"id":161354,"date":"2018-04-24T06:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161354"},"modified":"2018-04-24T06:07:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:07:46","slug":"us-report-on-ph-drug-war-contrasts-with-trumps-views-says-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/24\/us-report-on-ph-drug-war-contrasts-with-trumps-views-says-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"US report on PH drug war contrasts with Trump\u2019s views, says Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a mismatch in the recent human rights report of the United States and US President Donald Trump\u2019s viewpoint, Malacanang said.<\/p>\n<p>This statement came after the US State Department released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017, which stated that extrajudicial killings in the Philippines&#8217; war on drugs remain a top human rights concern.<\/p>\n<p>However, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a Palace media briefing that the report is contrary to what he \u201cpersonally heard\u201d during a discussion between Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally heard the discussion between President Trump and President Duterte when they were here in the Philippines during the ASEAN Summit and I think I heard words from President Trump praising President Duterte including the war on drugs,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque added that if he is not mistaken, \u201cPresident Trump said he [Duterte] knows what he\u2019s doing in the Philippines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roque also said that the administration chooses to \u201cgo by the statements of Trump\u201d since it came straight from the President&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 04\/ 24 \/18<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a mismatch in the recent human rights report of the United States and US President Donald Trump\u2019s viewpoint, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}