No profanities, but Rody loses cool at quad comm

The 11th hearing of the quad committee of the House of Representatives showed a different side of former president Rodrigo Duterte, who refrained from uttering profanities for the entirety of the proceedings lasting nine hours.

- JOSE RODEL CLAPANO

However, in a rare display of temper, Duterte grabbed his microphone last night in an attempt to throw it at former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who was two seats to his left, with former senator Leila de Lima sitting between them.

"What is it in exchange for? Can I slap him now?" Duterte asked officials of the quad committee, after he was asked if he could sign a bank waiver, as he had promised, to open all the bank accounts he had jointly with his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, who attended the hearing. Lawyers of Duterte, among them Martin Delgra III and former executive secretary Salvador Medialdea and former labor secretary Silvestre Bello III, tried to appease their former boss, while the rest prevented Duterte from getting to Trillanes.