Chiz leans over very calm, constitutional, very aware Heart is watching: Can we establish the chain of custody of the underwear?
The impeachment trial against Vice President Sara Duterte continues on its fifth day, on Tuesday, 14 July, 2026 in Pasay City.| Aram Lascano, Senate Press Photographers' POOL
This impeachment. Sara isn’t even there. She’s not there! Why would she be?
They don’t have 16 senators.
They know it. We know it. Even the senators pretending to be undecided know it. They could bring in the murder weapon, this victim Bongbong, they could bring in three more NBI agents, Mary Grace Piattos. The prosecution may prove she was reckless, secretive, wildly unpresidential, then discover that none of those words automatically add up to 16.
So why attend? Why hold a trial at all?
This is not about getting a guilty verdict anymore. That mountain is too high. Very steep.
They’re not really trying to remove Sara from office. What they’re doing is airport customs.
You know airport customs. No privacy whatsoever. They open your suitcase in front of everybody. They pull out your clothes. They hold up your underwear.
Then Attorney Ligutan shoots up. Very serious. Nosy like you wouldn’t believe.
“Your honors, this underwear reveals a deeply disturbing pattern.”
The defense goes crazy.
“Objection! Those holes have never been authenticated!”
Ligutan points.
“The left hole, your honors. Please observe the left hole.”
The defense screams, “There is no evidence that this is the original hole!”
Now everybody is discussing the hole. No one knows why. Nobody remembers the impeachable charge. Is this a grave threat? Is this sedition? Is this Hanes?
Chiz leans over very calm, constitutional, very aware Heart is watching: “Can we establish the chain of custody of the underwear?”
Now they want to know if it was washed. Who washed it? When was it washed? Was fabric softener used? Were confidential funds used to buy the detergent? Was the detergent properly liquidated?
Then the prosecution brings out the over-the-shoulder boulder holder.
My God.
Terrible harness. It is tired. It is exhausted. The underwire has the same fighting spirit as Atty. Ligutan. It refuses to quit: “Can the witness identify this?”
The defense objects before he can even finish.
“Leading!”
“Argumentative!”
“Calls for speculation!”
Chiz sighs.
The prosecution raises it higher.
“Your honors.”
The defense is now collapsing.
“Objection! The undies is irrelevant!”
That’s the case. You don’t have to prove anything. You just keep pulling things out.
“Ladies and gentlemen, what do you make of this sock? Smells funny, right?”
The Senate may never find her guilty. The prosecution only needs the country to find her embarrassing.
Because the grave threat allegation is that Sara Duterte supposedly arranged for a killer to go after the President.
Serious charge.
But are they trying her for the threat they say she made, or for the threat they are afraid she still poses?
Like winning in 2028?
If the case is really about betrayal of public trust, then let the public judge that trust at the ballot box. Perhaps that is exactly the problem.
They may be less afraid that she hired a killer than that millions of voters might, after all, still hire her.
