{"id":240447,"date":"2019-12-20T01:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=240447"},"modified":"2019-12-20T01:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:15:37","slug":"palace-mum-on-trumps-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/20\/palace-mum-on-trumps-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace mum on Trump&#8217;s impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_145518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145518\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shutterstock_677261236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145518\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shutterstock_677261236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shutterstock_677261236.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shutterstock_677261236-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: JULY 13, 2017 : The President of United States of America Donald Trump at the Elysee Palace for an extended interview with the french President (Frederic Legrand &#8211; COMEO \/ Shutterstock.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday was tight-lipped when asked to react on the move of the US House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the same way that we react on any intrusion into the processes of our government, we\u2019d rather not make any comment on that,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther than saying that in the same way that impeachment in this country is decided on the basis of party affiliations,<em>\u00a0eh siguro ganun din sila<\/em>\u00a0(perhaps they are the same),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In September this year, Panelo said Duterte and Trump had the same leadership \u201cstyle\u201d which is why they share respect for each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know if you recall the style of the President was much earlier than Trump.\u00a0<em>Bago pa nagkaroon ng<\/em>\u00a0Trump\u00a0<em>may<\/em>\u00a0Duterte\u00a0<em>na eh<\/em>\u00a0(Before there was Trump, there was Duterte),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte was elected into office in June 2016 while Trump was elected in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders met for the first time during the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Reports showed that the Democratic-led House voted to pass both of its two articles of impeachment brought against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The first, charging Trump with abuse of his power by pressuring Ukraine to pursue investigations that could benefit his reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The second accuses him of obstructing Congress by directing administration officials and agencies not to comply with lawful House subpoenas for testimony and documents related to impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time a President has been impeached in US history.<\/p>\n<p>The case will now head to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has denied wrongdoing and earlier called the impeachment drive an &#8220;attempted coup&#8221; by Democrats seeking to nullify his 2016 election victory.<\/p>\n<p>He is seeking another four-year term in the November 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday was tight-lipped when asked to react on the move of the US House of Representatives to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":145518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240447","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=240447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240457,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240447\/revisions\/240457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}