Gordon bent on filing ethics complaint vs. Trillanes

Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday said he will pursue filing an ethics complaint against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV over the latter's offensive acts and language against a senator and the institution.

"He has done that consistently. I already forgave him the first time. He even came to my office and apologized then he did it to Mr. Zubiri. Then he was trying to do it to Cayetano, he was trying to turn off the microphone," Gordon said.

“I’m sorry hindi lahat ng araw sa’yo,” the senator said.

Trillanes had dared Gordon to make true his threat and file the complaint.

"Wine-welcome ko ‘yun. Alam ninyo, palagi nagte-threaten ng ethics complaint itong si Senator Gordon, pero ni isa, wala. Kasi wala namang basis, puro lang dakdak," Trillanes told reporters in an interview.

"Sa’kin, sige, i-file mo na para tigil na yang pagdadakdak," Trillanes said.

In October last year, Gordon also had heated exchanges with both Trillanes and Senator Leila de Lima over confessed hitman Edgar Matobato.

Gordon had threatened to file an ethics complaint against De Lima then for supposedly concealing material information about Matobato. Gordon, however, did not file a complaint.

He also called Trillanes “sundalong kanin.” Gordon and Trillanes eventually patched things up, saying the things they said were uttered out of passion about what they are fighting for.

A month before, Trillanes clashed with then Senator and now Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, who was also questioning Matobato.

In January, Trillanes also had a word war with Senator Miguel Zubiri, after he accused the latter, along with Gordon, in attempting to “whitewash” the probe on the bribery scandal involving former Bureau of Immigration officials.

Zubiri and Trillanes were later on seen shaking hands. Their “unpleasant exchange” was also removed from the record. — RSJ, GMA News