Duterte twits ‘naive’ Hontiveros

President Duterte has rebuked Senator Risa Hontiveros for her “very naive” assumption that Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II was plotting against her based on a photo of his supposed text messages.

The President claimed that Hontiveros should not infer anything from the private communication between Aguirre and another person.

"That is a very naive. Ayaw ko lang anuhin si Hontiveros (but) when two persons talk and you are not a party to it, do not draw conclusions of what they are talking about,” Duterte said during a media interview in Taguig City early Wednesday morning.

“For all you know, ang pinagusapan mga babae the two fools might be talking about women],” he said.

Duterte also denied knowledge about any planned of filing cases against Hontiveros, a vocal critic of his brutal war on illegal drugs.

“Wala talaga akong alam diyan I don’t know anything about that]. I have been in Davao for the last two days kasi may mga commitment rin ako [because I have other commitments],” he said.

Hontiveros recently called for the resignation of Aguirre after supposedly plotting to bring cases against her in an apparent attempt to silence or harass her.

The senator showed a photograph of Aguirre that inadvertently captured an exchange of text messages with a certain “Cong. Jing” about the expediting the cases against her.

The photo was reportedly taken during Aguirre’s attendance during a recent Senate hearing.

Hontiveros claimed Aguirre undermines the country’s system and his continued stay in office was a “vulgar insult to the Filipino people.”

Aguirre, however, refused to resign and instead accused Hontiveros of violating his privacy rights.