JOJO ROBLES
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte did not act against his arch-critic Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th while the chief executive was conveniently out of the country, as the opposition senator claimed. On the contrary, Duterte was reacting to a recently discovered plot to oust him involving Trillanes while he was on his historic state visits to Israel and Jordan, sources close to the military and national security establishment told this writer this week.