Tila hindi nakapagtimpi ang aktor na si Jake Ejercito na sagutin ang natanggap na batikos matapos niyang mag-alay ng tribute kay dating Senate President at Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile.
Sa isang Facebook post kasi ni Jake kamakailan, ibinahagi niya ang anekdota niya tungkol kay Enrile matapos nitong pumanaw noong Huwebes, Nobyembre 13.
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“It was 2011,” panimula ni Jake. “He was already around 90 years old then Seated close to him, I was casually flipping through my younger brother’s grade school history book. He noticed me and asked if he could take a look as I happened to be on the chapter about the Japanese invasion.”
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“After reading a few lines, he quipped, ‘The date here is wrong.’ I looked at him, confused about how someone could dispute a history book. He then handed it back to me and said, ‘I know better— because I was there,’” pagpapatuloy niya.
Dagdag pa ng aktor, “A lot has been said and will be said about the man. But one thing’s for sure: he has found his own place in our history books, one that history itself will continue to examine. Paalam, Manong JPE.”
At isang netizen ang nangahas magkomento sa post na ito para tuligsain ang aniya’y pagpanig ni Jake sa isang kagaya ni Enrile na malapit dito.
“Proof that people choose who to side with and would be blind if it comes to someone they are close with ” saad ng netizen.
Ngunit sagot ni Jake, “Since when did sharing an anecdote equate to choosing sides? Sometimes the ‘blindness’ we point out in others is just our own assumptions speaking.”
Matatandaang sa kabila ng mga pagkilala sa husay ni Enrile sa batas at politika, nakilala rin siya bilang “chief architect ng Martial Law” matapos ang umano’y pekeng pag-ambush sa kaniya sa Wack Wack Subdivision sa Mandaluyong.
Bukod pa rito, nasangkot din siya noon sa kontrobersyal na Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam o “pork barrel scam.”
Tumanggap daw si Enrile ng kickbacks na nagkakahalaga ng ₱172 milyon.
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