(Eagle News) — At least 14 senators have expressed support for the ethics complaint Senator Richard Gordon is set to file against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
This is according to Gordon himself, who spoke to reporters after the Senate majority bloc held a 3-hour caucus to discuss priority bills on Monday afternoon.
“I have the support of more than 10, more than 12, more than 14 senators,” Gordon said.
Gordon announced he would file the ethics complaint against Trillanes after the two clashed in a Senate blue ribbon committee hearing into the P6.4-billion drug shipment that entered the country via express Customs lanes last week.
Gordon got visibly irked after Trillanes indirectly accused him of “badgering” witness Mark Taguba, a BoC fixer.
He said Trillanes had gotten away with his statements against the Senate in the past, and that it was time to discipline him.
Earlier, Trillanes already called his colleagues “puppets” and “cowards” for their supposed refusal to investigate issues that would allegedly hurt the government.
Trillanes, for his part, told reporters Gordon’s filing of an ethics complaint was in large part because he (Trillanes) supported the subpoena of President Rodrigo Duterte’s son, Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, and son-in-law Mans Carpio.
Taguba said the younger Duterte and Carpio were behind the so-called Davao Group that deals with corrupt Customs officials and employees for shipment to be released with haste.
He later, however, cleared President Duterte’s relatives, and apologized to the President.
