(Eagle News) — A lawyer for Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday slammed Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy after she accused the second highest-ranking official in the country of being a “purveyor of fake news” in a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
“If this is the Lorraine Badoy who insisted that a high school class project was an ‘LP publication,’ and, when corrected, refused to accept her mistake and tried to bully Jillian Robredo and her high school classmates, then I hardly think she is the most credible person to talk about ‘fake news’,” Barry Gutierrez said in a statement.
“That this person is now in PCOO, though, is a very clear indicator of the kind of work it focuses on these days,” Gutierrez added.
In December 2016, Badoy shared a magazine cover with a picture of Robredo and the word “Bayani” written.
Badoy said that the magazine was from the Liberal Party of which Robredo is chair.
The Robredo camp said the magazine was a school project of the vice president’s daughter.
On Tuesday, Badoy called Robredo a “purveyor of fake news” at a hearing of the Senate public information and mass media committee headed by Senator Grace Poe.
For this, she cited Robredo’s speech before a United Nations event that painted the Philippines as a “no- man’s land” because of what she claimed were the rampant extrajudicial killings there.
