00:00Vice President Sara Duterte says her impeachment trial has yielded no evidence she enlisted an
00:05assassin to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. This despite the prosecution arguing that grave
00:11threats she stated in two viral videos on their own constitute an impeachable offense.
00:16In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, July 14, Duterte denies there was ever an assassin.
00:22She writes, the complaint is not supported by evidence, repeatedly claiming that there were
00:27threats when none existed, inventing an assassin when there was none, and fabricating evidence to
00:32support those claims does not transform fiction into fact. However, the complaint is not that she
00:38enlisted an assassin, but that she said she enlisted an assassin. Duterte also claims the impeachment
00:43proceedings are not credible. This as the impeachment court hears arguments on two videos presented by
00:49the prosecution as evidence that she issued grave threats against the first couple and then House
00:53Speaker Martin Romualdez. The first video, from November 23, 2024, shows Duterte saying she
00:59enlisted someone to kill the three in case she herself is killed. The second video, from November 26,
01:052024, shows Duterte speaking to reporters and affirming what she said in the first video.
01:11Neither the defense nor any of the senator judges questioned the authenticity of the videos.
01:16Duterte was officially summoned to the trial but has so far snubbed the hearings, leaving her defense to
01:21her lawyers.
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