Palace: Trillanes’ “greater service” to the nation? His “mandatory exit” from the Senate

(Eagle News)–For the Palace, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s “greater service to the nation” is his “mandatory exit from the Senate.”

“While many will wish Mr. Trillanes good riddance as he is about to leave the hallowed halls of the Senate at the end of June of this year, we will instead wish him luck as he faces another prospect of being placed behind bars again as the self-confessed black propagandist turns against his master, even as his victims look forward to seeing the Senate, or better yet the government, without the cantankerously obnoxious coup plotter,”  Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said.

Panelo issued the statement hours after Trillanes yet again lashed out at President Rodrigo Duterte, accusing him of using Peter Joemel Advincula against the senator.

On Thursday, May 23, Advincula said Trillanes, other opposition figures and the Liberal Party were behind the “Bikoy” videos that accused President Duterte, his  family and some of his allies of being engaged in  the illegal drug trade.

Advincula claims he was the yellow-hooded character “Bikoy” who hurled the accusations, all “lies,” in the videos after he was promised by his benefactors P500,000.

He said he turned the tables on them seeing he was about to be let go by the group.

LP, the others and Trillanes have denied the allegations.

But according to Panelo, the senator should  address the “serious allegation pointing to him as the mastermind and in conspiracy with certain political leaders identified with the opposition of the unlawful plot to topple the Duterte Administration.”

Panelo noted that Trillanes was initially “all praises for the videos which were intended to incite sedition against the duly-constituted and people-elected President, even arrogantly wishing that he was part of such a felony, and then suddenly after being ratted as the creator of the sinister plot pronounces that he knows nothing about the same.”

Panelo said it was Trillanes who accused Duterte of having a  “fictitious bank account” containing over P200 million even before the 2016 elections.

“He deviously released this black propaganda a week before the presidential elections, almost identical to the time frame of the release of the recent videos of Bikoy before the midterm national elections. The two black propagandas are eerily similar as to the timing of their release,” Panelo said.

“History keeps repeating itself. In Mr. Trillanes’ case, first as a tragedy and second as a farce. This describes well the case of the outgoing Senator,” he added.