US Embassy official visits Sotto, Trillanes

The political officer of the United States Embassy went to the Senate Wednesday morning and visited Senate President Vicente Sotto III and embattled Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.

Based on the Senate logbook, Josh Morris, chief of the internal political unit of the US Embassy, arrived before 10 a.m. He wrote “various senators” as destination.

In a text message to GMA News Online, Sotto confirmed the visit saying it was “Hi, hello lang. Courtesy call.”

Trillanes, on the other hand, neither confirmed nor denied the visit.

“I cannot confirm ‘yung mga ganyang klaseng information. I will not confirm nor deny for that matter,” the senator said in a press briefing when asked.

However, sources said that Morris indeed went to the office of Trillanes, who has been staying in the Senate for two weeks now after President Rodrigo Duterte signed Proclamation 572 revoking the former’s amnesty and ordering his arrest.

Trillanes earlier said that he will remain at the Senate until the Supreme Court resolves the constitutionality of Duterte's Proclamation 572.

Trillanes recently bared that a suspicious vehicle was seen roaming in their neighborhood while his car was trailed when it went out of the Senate premises.

As of posting time, no other senator has confirmed that Morris had also visited them.

There were those, however, who said that Morris did not meet with them: Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto, and Senators Grace Poe, Francis Pangilinan, Joseph Victor Ejercito, Sherwin Gatchalian, Aquilino Pimentel III, Francis Escudero, Juan Edgardo Angara, and Joel Villanueva. — MDM/BM, GMA News