The Department of National Defense (DND) on Monday urged the United States to investigate the personalities who released a “malicious” and “fake video” of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during a gathering of supporters of former president Rodrigo Duterte in Los Angeles, California.
The video dubbed as “pulvoronic video” was aired during a “Maisug” rally attended by supporters of Duterte.
“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 Marcos Jr. They will not succeed!” Defense spokesperson Director Arsenio Andolong said in a statement.
The DND said its statement was pertaining to the video supposedly showing Marcos opening a plastic sachet with an unknown substance, and sniffing its contents.
Andolong noted that the release of the contrived video in the US “is a cowardly attempt to escape Philippine criminal jurisdiction.”
“We urge the proper US authorities to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of this disgusting act,” he noted.
The National Security Council (NSC) earlier denounced the release of the fake video, describing it as a “fabricated and malicious hoax”.
“We condemn any attempt to destabilize the administration and we will resist any and all efforts to weaken our duly-constituted democratic institutions,” the NSC stressed.
The video was released hours before Marcos Junior delivered his third State of the Nation Address on Monday.
