In a privilege speech, Pacquiao took offense at Trillanes’ statement that senators are not saints to doubt that it was indeed “spiritual renewal” that made retired cop Arthur Lascañas recant his testimony last year denying the Davao Death Squad’s existence.
In regular Senate session, Trillanes had the strong urge to turn off the microphone of Senator Manny Pacquiao when the boxing icon was proposing a motion to declare the chairmanship of the Senate committee on justice (headed by Senator Leila De Lima) vacant.
As Trillanes got up from his seat to approach the podium where Pacquiao stood, the boxer-senator clenched his fist as if ready to punch Trillanes in the face. (It would have been a knockout, witnesses say.)
“The statement of my colleague is very offended to me because para bang hindi akong totoong tao (sic). Para bang yung pagiging Christian ko ay fake. That’s my understanding. that’s a very offended to me (sic). Good thing I have Jesus in my life or else I will run to his chair and hit him (Trillanes) right away,” Pacquiao said.
During the Senate hearing on Lascañas’ revelations Wednesday (March 7), Pacquiao refused to believe Lascañas’ claim taht he lied under oath when he appeared before senators last October because he was under duress.
Lascañas now admitted that the DDS existed and President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the group to carry out certain killings when he was mayor of Davao City.
Source: Ignite Pinoy
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