“President Rodrigo Duterte heeds the advise of some Cabinet members that "nothing good" would come out of a debate with retired Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio and, it would be a "demotion" for a sitting president to engage in a debate with an "ordinary lawyer.”
Rodrigo Duterte
Claim dated 5 May 2021.
Vera Files rated thisFlip-flop
What Vera Files found
It was Duterte himself who dared Carpio to a debate considering that they "are both lawyers."
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 5 May 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 10 May 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEnQqcT7dWs
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/OPS-content/on-the-west-philippine-sea-debate/
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/HS2mvRijjeE?t=449
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