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'Loko-loko': Duterte slams Trillanes for doubting he passed the bar

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<p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATE)</strong> - President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday slammed opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for casting doubt on the legitimacy of his bar examination results, calling his fierce critic &quot;crazy.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Ako pumasa dahil sa tatay ko? Hoy, loko-loko. Mali ka, torpe (I passed because of my father? Hey, you&#x27;re crazy. You&#x27;re wrong),&quot; Duterte said in a one-on-one interview with Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, addressing the mutineer-turned-lawmaker.</p><p>&quot;I became a lawyer 20 years after my father&#x27;s death,&quot; said Duterte, a former prosecutor and long-time Davao City mayor. </p><p>Trillanes, whose amnesty Duterte had voided over supposedly missed requirements, earlier said he would review the President&#x27;s bar exam results. </p><p>The senator alleged that the President&#x27;s father, former Davao Governor Vicente Duterte who later became a member of deposed strongman Ferdinand Marcos&#x27; pre-martial law cabinet, could have called in favors and pulled some strings to let his son pass the 1972 Bar Examinations. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1424824" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>This as he mocked Duterte&#x27;s Presidential Proclamation No. 572 that <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/04/18/trillanes-amnesty-revoked-senator-faces-charges-arrest">voided </a>his amnesty, calling the order &quot;baseless and unconstitutional.&quot;</p><p>Duterte&#x27;s order invalidated the amnesty granted the former Navy lieutenant in 2011 for his alleged failure to comply with requirements, including admission of guilt. </p><p>This, in effect, revived coup d&#x27;etat and rebellion charges against Trillanes. Two branches of the Makati Regional Trial Court have set hearings on the justice department&#x27;s plea for the former rebel to be arrested and barred from leaving the country. </p><div><strong> MA CORRUPT? TRILLANES SAYS DUTERTE CLAIM &#x27;LOW BLOW&#x27; </strong></div><p>Reiterating corruption allegations against Trillanes, the President also took a swipe at the senator&#x27;s parents by saying that his mother did business with the military despite conflict of interest.</p><p>&quot;Hindi kagaya mo [Trillanes], tatay nasa serbisyo, nanay mo nagne-negosyo sa Navy (Unlike you, Trillanes, your father was in the service, your mother did business in the Navy),&quot; Duterte said without divulging details. </p><p>Trillanes, meanwhile, said his father retired from the force and died in 1998, and that there are no cases filed against his mother.</p><p>&quot;Ang aking nanay walang kaso. &#x27;Yun lang ang kailangan nating malaman. Walang kaso, walang impropriety... 1998 pa nag-retire ang aking tatay, 1998 siya nag-retire, 1998 siya namatay,&quot; Trillanes told reporters.</p><p>(My mother has no charges against her. That&#x27;s all we need to know. No cases, no impropriety. My father retired in 1998, he died in 1998.)</p><p>Trillanes called Duterte&#x27;s allegations against his mother a &quot;low blow.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Siguro nakita ng mga kababayaan natin how low that blow was.<br/>Kung may problema siya sa&#x27;kin, stick with me dahil kaya ko &#x27;to pero ida-drag mo &#x27;yung nanay ko diyan, personalan &#x27;yan. &#x27;Wag ka pumunta dyan. Hindi gawain &#x27;yan ng mga tunay na lalaki,&quot; he said.</p><p>(Our fellow Filipinos can see how low that blow was. If he has a problem with me, stick with me because I can handle it. But if you drag my mother to it, that&#x27;s personal. Don&#x27;t go there. True men don&#x27;t do that.)</p><p>Duterte and Trillanes have been engaged in a word war since last week when the President invalidated his amnesty. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/08/18/trillanes-wants-dutertes-bar-exam-results-reviewed-as-word-war-continues">READ: Trillanes wants Duterte’s bar exam results reviewed, as word war continues</a></li></ul>

<p>MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday slammed opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for casting doubt on the legitimacy of his bar examination results, calling his fierce critic "crazy."</p>

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday slammed opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for casting doubt on the legitimacy of his bar examination results, calling his fierce critic "crazy."