‘What stacks of evidence?’: Trillanes says Binay lying in pol ad

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and Vice President Jejomar Binay. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Tuesday accused Vice President Jejomar Binay of lying and trying to deceive the public with the latter’s television advertisement, showing piles of evidence, which he had supposedly submitted to disprove the corruption allegations being hurled at him.

But contrary to what Binay was allegedly trying to project in his ad, Trillanes said the documents in the video were the evidence against the Vice President and not the other way around.

In the ad, which was played during the hearing of the Senate blue ribbon subcommittee, Binay said: “Sa dami ng aming paliwanag at mga dokumentong ipinadala ay hindi nila pinansin. Wala talagang balak pakinggan ang katotohanan.”

(They never paid attention to the explanation and documents we presented. They were never planning to side with the truth.)

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To prove that Binay was lying, Trillanes presented to the committee the stacks of evidence, which he said were the same folders used in the ad.

“Pakilabas nga po ‘yang mga folders na ‘yan, so nandirito po sa likod natin ‘yung mga folders na ‘yan, exactly the same folders,” he said.

(Bring out those folders. The folders behind me were the exact, same folders presented on his commercial.)

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“Ngayon po para lang sa kaalaman ng lahat, ito pong mga folders na ito na pinakita d’yan po sa video ni Vice President Binay na nandito po sa likod natin, ay ito po ang ebidensya laban sa kanya.”

(For your information, these folders used in the commercial of Vice President Binay are evidence against him.)

The folders of evidence Vice President Jejomar Binay claimed he presented to Senate in his political advertisement. YOUTUBE SCREENGRAB

“Hindi po n’ya sinabmit ‘yan. Kinuha po namin ‘yang mga ebidensya laban sa kanya at may mga kopya na po n’yan na nai-forward sa Ombudsman,” Trillanes added.

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(He did not submit those documents. We collected them as evidence against him and some copies were already forwarded to the Ombudsman.)

In the contrary, the senator said, Binay had only submitted an affidavit to the subcommittee “by virtue of a subpoena.”

“Ako po ang nagpa subpoena n’yan…Ito lang po ang ebidensyang isinabmit ni Vice President Binay, mga general denials so hindi po totoo ‘yan,” he said.

(I was the one who summoned those documents. Vice President Binay only issued general denials.)

“Dito n’yo makikita kung toto ‘yung kasabihan na ang kakambal ng magnanakaw ay sinungaling kasi talagang malaking kasinungalingan at panlilinlang ngayon ang ginagwa n’ya sa taumbayan dahil pinapalabas n’ya ho itong advertisement na ito. So maliwanag ‘yan, ‘yung mga folder na pinapakita n’ya sa ads, ebidensya po namin ‘yan laban sa kanya,” Trillanes added.

(It’s quite obvious in this instance that thieves and liars are two peas in one pod because his statement in this advertisement clearly deceives the people. Let me just make it clear that the folders he used on his ad are actually evidence against him.) IDL