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Trillanes warns Duterte: 'Someday there will be a reckoning for you'

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Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/02/16/trillanes-duterte-021617.jpg"/><figcaption>Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and President Rodrigo Duterte. File</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA- &quot;Someday there will be a reckoning for you.&quot;This was the message of opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to President Rodrigo Duterte after the latter invalidated the lawmaker&#x27;s amnesty grant.Duterte through Proclamation 572 invalidated the grant of amnesty to Trillanes for failure to comply with its minimum requirements, Malacanang said Tuesday.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/04/18/trillanes-amnesty-void-as-if-it-never-existed-doj-chief">Trillanes amnesty void &#x27;as if it never existed&#x27;: DOJ chief</a></li></ul>One of the President&#x27;s most vocal critics, Trillanes on Tuesday vowed that he would not escape nor resist arrest and insisted on addressing the issue through legal channels.&quot;Mr. Duterte hindi ako natatakot sa&#x27;yo. Sana hindi ka umalis, para kang duwag niyan. Bago mo inisyu ito lumayas ka muna para kunyari wala siyang kinalaman dito,&quot; Trillanes told reporters.&quot;Well, you&#x27;re definitely behind this, kayo ng abogado mo si Calida. Someday there will be a reckoning for you at talagang mangyayari at mangyayari yan (and that will really happen),&quot; the senator added.(Mr. Duterte, I am not afraid of you. I wish you did not leave the country, you seem like a coward. Before issuing this, you left first to make it appear that you had nothing to do with it.)<div>AMNESTY ALREADY RULED VALID</div>Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday meanwhile insisted that the grant of amnesty to Trillanes has already been ruled upon by the court to be valid.&quot;What is in issue here is the amnesty was validly availed of ang granted. The court has ruled upon the validity of the amnesty application,&quot; Drilon said.&quot;You precisely avail of the amnesty because in effect you admit that you committed an offense,&quot; he added.This despite Malacañang&#x27;s explanation that the grant of amnesty to Trillanes was void from the start due to the supposed absence of any admission of guilt to the crime of coup d&#x27;état.“The past finally caught up with Senator Trillanes. He is responsible for his current state,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press briefing in Israel, noting that there is &quot;nothing political&quot; with the decision.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/04/18/nothing-political-palace-says-trillanes-past-finally-caught-up-with-him">Nothing political: Palace says Trillanes&#x27; past finally caught up with him</a></li></ul>Drilon said the Senate will take custody of Trillanes pending his legal remedies in the regular courts.Senate President Vicente Sotto III meanwhile has already instructed the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms not to allow arresting officers inside Senate premises, Drilon added.Trillanes, then already a senator, formally applied for amnesty, which requires an admission of guilt, on January 5, 2011.In his application form, Trillanes signed a portion acknowledging his involvement in uprisings that entail &quot;a violation of the 1987 Constitution, criminal laws, and the Articles of War&quot; and recanting his statements in the past that are contrary &quot;to this express admission of involvement/participation and guilt.&quot;<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/01/05/11/trillanes-applies-amnesty-has-no-regrets">Trillanes applies for amnesty, has no regrets </a></li></ul>Duterte&#x27;s predecessor, former President Benigno Aquino, granted amnesty to Trillanes and several other military rebels in 2011, leading to his release from detention.Trillanes won a seat in the Senate in 2007, campaigning from detention. He was reelected in 2013. In 2016, while running for vice president, he campaigned against then Davao City Mayor Duterte.He has since become Duterte&#x27;s fiercest critic, calling on the chief executive to undergo drug tests, psychological assessments, and to bare his state of health and wealth.

Trillanes on Tuesday vowed that he would not escape nor resist arrest and insisted on addressing the issue through legal channels.

Trillanes on Tuesday vowed that he would not escape nor resist arrest and insisted on addressing the issue through legal channels.

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Trillanes warns Duterte: 'Someday there will be a reckoning for you'

Arianne Merez,

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Published Sep 04, 2018 03:44 PM PHT

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Updated Sep 04, 2018 08:00 PM PHT

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