Duterte twits Trillanes: I became a lawyer 20 years after my father died

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday called Senator Antonio Trillanes IV "crazy" after the opposition lawmaker vowed to check if the Chief Executive indeed passed the bar examinations.

Trillanes on Sunday questioned Duterte's knowledge of the law  following the President's decision to void the amnesty granted to him by the Aquino administration, saying the chief executive "flouts the law at every turn."

The senator surmised that Duterte's father, Marcos-era Cabinet member and former Davao governor Vicente Duterte, might have pulled some strings so that he could pass the exams in 1972.

"Ako pumasa dahil sa tatay ko? Hoy, loko-loko. Mali ka, torpe," Duterte said in a nationally televised exchange with chief presidential legal counsel Secretary Salvador Panelo in Malacañang.

"I became a lawyer 20 years after my father's death," he added.

Vicente Duterte died in February 1968, four years before Duterte graduated from the San Beda University College of Law and subsequently passed the Bar. The President was included in the official Roll of Attorneys on June 20, 1973, according to Supreme Court records.

Duterte had worked as a government prosecutor for several years before he entered politics in 1986. —NB, GMA News