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The Philippine National Police has been ordered to investigate the viral video that showed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. allegedly using drugs, Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos issued the order and said that the video “was fake and malicious.”
“The obviously fake video being circulated emanating from a MAISUG gathering in Los Angeles is again a maliciously crude attempt to destabilize the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. They will not succeed!” DND spokesperson Arsenio Andolong said in a statement. In a video statement, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said the video is “obviously manipulated.”
House Majority Leader Manuel Jose Dalipe meanwhile condemned the people responsible for the fabrication and dissemination of the said video.
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