Apparently, VP Sara spent the confidential funds to deploy an army of secret agents — like Andy Lim and Mary Grace Piattos — to the country's 47,831 public schools. That’s a lot of schools, and a lot of operatives.

I came to the sobering conclusion while following the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte that I’m an inferior being compared with sibling-senators Alan and Pia Cayetano. And that’s not even counting the jedi of jurisprudence Senator Rodante Marcoleta, who somehow pulled off the near-impossible feat of indicting himself.

Time to get a masterclass in courtroom confrontation, I thought, from my friend the legal eagle Attorney Manny Obra.

He’s founding partner of Obra & Cadabra Law Group (“We Make the Charges Disappear”). In his younger days in the States, Manny was a mail clerk for Perry Mason. He hasn’t budged from his rented cubicle on T. Pinpin Street near Escolta in Binondo.

Terni, is VP Sara Duterte in a pickle? I asked. Is her defense team on the ropes?