‘He has the mindset of a hitman’: Philippine senator claims President Rodrigo Duterte wants him dead
As a young naval officer, Trillanes helped lead two brief coup attempts against then-president Gloria Arroyo in 2003 and 2007
After launching his political career from a jail cell, Philippine Senator Antonio Trillanes believes it could end in a grave thanks to a relentless campaign against his “hitman” president.
But the former Navy officer with a history of coup attempts appears to thrive on the pressures that have come with regularly accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of being a corrupt mass murderer.
“This man is a sociopath and he has the mindset of a hitman,” Trillanes, 46, said in an interview on Wednesday from his senate office, offering a typically incendiary assessment of his rival.
Duterte won last year’s presidential elections on a brutal law-and-order platform in which he promised an unprecedented campaign to eradicate illegal drugs in society by killing up to 100,000 traffickers and addicts.
This man is a sociopath and he has the mindset of a hitman
He vowed so many bodies would be dumped in Manila Bay that the fish would grow fat from feeding on them, and said he would pardon police if they were found guilty of rights abuses while enacting his drug war.