Donald Trump is bad news for PH

Donald Trump proved the pollsters wrong when he was elected president of the world’s mightiest nation, albeit by a very slim margin over Hillary Clinton.

Trump’s victory shows it’s the voters and not the surveys that determine the outcome of an election.

Let’s be glad our country is charting an independent foreign policy.

Donald Trump is bad news for the Philippines.

We should now strengthen our friendship with China.

Trump is a bigot; look what he said about Mexicans in his campaign speeches.

Trump wants to adopt an isolationist stance for the United States; his policy will be America first before others.

The Supreme Court has decided nine to five that former President Ferdinand Marcos should be buried at Libingan ng mga Bayani.

The difference of four is an overwhelming majority in the 15-member tribunal.

With the decision, the healing for the nation should begin.

The question of whether Marcos should be buried at Libingan ng mga Bayani has long divided the nation.

Justice Diosdado Peralta spoke for the majority when he said the justices who voted in favor of it were motivated by a desire for national healing and reconciliation.

“While he was not all good, he was not pure evil either. Certainly just a human who erred like us,” Peralta said.

There is a Filipino saying that when a person dies, all his sins are expunged.

Let us leave it to history and future generations to judge Marcos.

As Peralta said, “There are certain things that are better left to history—not this court—to adjudge.

Beyond that, it is ultimately for the people themselves, as the sovereign, to decide, a task that may require the better perspective that the passage of time provides. In the meantime, the country must move on and let the issue to rest.”

And for those who can’t forgive Marcos for his supposed sins against the Filipino people, aren’t we supposed to forgive our enemies as Christians?

It’s in the Lord’s Prayer: “…and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sinned against us….”

Retired police Gen. Leonardo Espina, former chief of the Philippine National Police, has been cleared of accusations that he supplied firearms to Kerwin Espinosa, alleged drug lord in Eastern Visayas.

Kerwin’s father, Mayor Rolando Espinosa of Albuera, Leyte, was killed by the police inside his cell at the Leyte provincial jail.

It was Espina’s brother-in-law, Victor Espina Jr., who supplied the firearms to the Espinosas by dropping the former PNP chief’s name.

This was the finding of an investigation conducted by the PNP even before the list of alleged protectors of the Espinosas came out.

Espina and his wife have the same family name but are not related to each other, allowing Victor to pass himself off as Leonardo’s blood brother.

Poor Espina, being dragged into the drug mess when he was never involved in any shenanigan while he was in the service.