BREAKUP. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte during the Basic Education Report in January 2024.
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'I asked her by confirming with her. 'Can I just say this is fake news?' And she said yes. I think she already knew before I asked her,' Poa says
No, there was no meeting between President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte. This was the vehement denial of the Duterte camp eight weeks into the Vice President’s impeachment trial.
“Fake news, fake news. Parang ‘yung ano lang ‘yan, no’ng binato ako ng laptop… O kung anuman. So it’s a fake (That’s fake news. It’s like the disinformation that a laptop was thrown at me or whatever. So it’s a fake),” defense counsel and spokesperson Michael Poa told reporters.
