VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is Duterte’s popularity rising?
Chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo said last week President Rodrigo Duterte's popularity has been rising despite criticisms and exposés.
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Trillanes to Duterte: sign waiver of bank secrecy law addressed to BPI
The public should be more discerning this time with President Duterte’s bluster when confronted with the issue of his BPI bank accounts which have been recipients of deposits amounting to over P2 billion from 2006 to 2015 from several sources.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte flip-flops on family’s wealth
President Rodrigo Duterte is now tweaking his narrative from being born to a poor family and growing up “in the slums” and is now saying his family was and is not poor.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Was Duterte’s chest pain checkup ‘just a story’?
The Press Secretary is the liaison between the government, the public and the media. One of his functions is to clarify, confirm or deny information that the media ask him for confirmation.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Which court ruled on the West Philippine Sea dispute?
In a recent briefing with his defense team, President Rodrigo Duterte denounced the reported move of the U.S. to build depots and unload arms in the Philippines. He said "the missiles of China are pointed at American expeditions" here, and it is the kind of war the country cannot participate in.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte was already campaigning as early as 2015
It could have been a slip, except the president says it is the “truth.” President Rodrigo Duterte, recalling his meeting two years ago with former president Benigno Aquino III on the day of the Mamasapano encounter, said he was in Zamboanga City to “campaign.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are addicts ‘eternally’ hooked on drugs?
President Rodrigo Duterte is now likening addicts to slaves, describing them as eternally dependent on drugs.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Was Duterte referring to Najib, instead of Mahathir, as Malaysian PM?
President Rodrigo Duterte credited the arrest of an MNLF leader's son, and the ability to secure regional waters, to his good working relations with President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, and "Mahathir."
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Did Pangilinan law produce a generation of criminals?
For President Rodrigo Duterte, the law is to be blamed for the number of children out on the streets committing crime.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte wants to declare martial law?
What do martial law and the Abu Sayyaf have in common? On both issues, President Rodrigo Duterte had flip-flopped, and then, flipped, or flopped, again.
