Senate probe highlights Cayetano’s star anew

By Al S. Mendoza

 

ALAN Peter Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes used to fight as one.

Before the May 9 elections, both senators were up against Jojo Binay.

They supported former Makati vice mayor Mercado in his campaign to expose Binay’s alleged overprice in his Makati parking building project.

Before that, Binay was a consistent presidential survey pacesetter leading to the May 9 polls.

But as the Senate probe against Binay wore on, the former Makati mayor began to slide down in popularity.

In the end, Binay would transform from leader to loser, winding up a sorry fourth in the five-person presidential race topped by Rody Duterte.

Duterte would become from fifth to first, even winning by a whopping six million plus votes over Mar Roxas, with Grace Poe finishing third and Miriam Santiago bringing up the rear.

Mercado used to be Binay’s No. 1 ally as Binay’s vice mayor in Makati.

Then they had a falling out—authored by Binay, no less.

In his greed for power, Binay broke a pledge to anoint Mercado as his successor when Mercado’s shot at the mayoral post came.

Who took Mercado’s slot on orders of Binay?

None other than JunJun, Binay’s son.

End of decades of friendship.

Start of Mercado’s vendetta versus Binay, ending in sweet victory as Binay bitterly bowed out a beaten man last May.

Their saga is now being reprised by Cayetano and Trillanes.

Looking like inseparable pals in the Binay bashing in the Senate, Cayetano and Trillanes are now the bitterest of enemies.

It started during the last election, when Cayetano became Duterte’s running mate and Trillanes ran as an independent vice president.

But Trillanes’ true motive in joining the VP fray was unmasked: He was a rabid yellow supporter a.k.a. PNoy attack dog.

Disguised as a Mar Roxas supporter (PNoy’s bet), Trillanes would soon unleash a demolition job against Duterte.

Trillanes unveiled what he said was Duterte’s hidden wealth.

Nobody believed him, of course, as Duterte would proceed to clear the finish line with a whopping 16-million plus votes last May.

This week, Trillanes was at it again.

In the Senate probe on extra-judicial killings last Thursday, Trillanes engaged Cayetano in a heated debate.

Trillanes utterly displayed extreme bias for a witness whose credibility has become clear suspect due to inconsistencies in his testimony.

Easily, Cayetano thrashed Trillanes.  But, of course.

Cayetano is a brilliant lawyer like his late father, Rene.

Trillanes is nothing but a fake fighter, whose own mistahs in the Philippine Military Academy dread and avoid him like a plague for his bullying and disrespectful ways since he turned from a failed coup plotter to senator.

JP Enrile (Trillanes’ benefactor) calls Trillanes a “traitor” and it was Trillanes who bullied Gen. Angie Reyes in a Senate hearing, driving Reyes to commit suicide in front of his mother’s grave.

Cayetano should stop engaging Trillanes to a word war as that is like dignifying a mere kibitzer a.k.a. “uzisero” in the Senate.

Better yet, Cayetano should start treating Trillanes like a chair:  Ass-catcher.

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