{"id":29151,"date":"2014-10-17T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T03:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29151"},"modified":"2014-10-17T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:26:44","slug":"trillanes-senate-will-prove-that-tiu-is-binays-dummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/17\/trillanes-senate-will-prove-that-tiu-is-binays-dummy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillanes: Senate will prove that Tiu is Binay\u2019s dummy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22504\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Antonio-Trillanes-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22504\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Antonio-Trillanes-2-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV. Photo courtesy of Trillanes' Facebook page.\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Antonio-Trillanes-2-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Antonio-Trillanes-2.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV. Photo courtesy of Trillanes&#8217; Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday hit businessman Antonio Tiu for denying that he served as a dummy for Vice President Jejomar Binay.<\/p>\n<p>Trillanes added that he can easily deny it on a press release but being under interrogation is a different matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKung press release lang madaling sabihin &#8216;yun, pero kapag humarap siya, diyan makikita nyo panong gumuho yung istory niya,\u201d Trillanes said in a press conference. (It\u2019s easy to say that in press releases but once you face him, you\u2019ll see how his story will crumble.)<\/p>\n<p>Tiu is the registered owner of a vast property in Batangas alleged by Binay\u2019s critics to be owned by the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>Former Makati Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado, who is among the major \u201cwhistleblowers\u201d standing against Binay in the current senate probe on his alleged unexplained wealth, said that Tiu is only a property on paper and Binay is the real owner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKung haharap siya, siya mismo makikita &#8216;nyo how he [conducts] himself under intense questioning,\u201d added the senator. (If Tiu faces the Senate, you\u2019ll see for yourself how he\u2019ll respond to intense questioning.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt betrayed kasi (because) I know him, he was a friend. Pero dahil dito sa cover-up na ito (but because of this coverup) our friendship will not protect him, so tutuluyan natin ito (we\u2019ll push through with this),\u201d added Trillanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday hit businessman Antonio Tiu for denying that he served as a dummy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[7613],"class_list":["post-29151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-trillanes","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29151","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}