Philippines Issues Arrest Warrant for VP Sara Duterte for Threatening to Kill President Again

Breitbart ^ | 09/04/2026 | John Hayward

[DFG]

A Philippine trial court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Sara Duterte, in connection with charges against her for threatening the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and others.

Duterte faces three counts of issuing “grave threats” against the president, his wife Liza Araneta-Marcos, and his cousin Martin Romualdez, who was speaker of the Philippine House at the time she made the threats in November 2024.

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During an online press conference in November 2024, Sara Duterte shocked the audience by declaring she had retained the services of an assassin to kill President Marcos, Jr., his wife, and the speaker if anything should happen to her.

This was a few weeks after Duterte said she “wanted to cut his head off” and claimed she had told the president’s sister that she would dig up the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. and “throw it in the West Philippine Sea” if the younger Marcos did not stop politically attacking her.

Marcos, Jr. let the beheading and corpse desecration talk slide, but his administration took Duterte’s claim of hiring a hit man very seriously. The Philippine national police and military beefed up the president’s protective details, and charges were soon brought against the vice president for her death threat.

Duterte tried to walk her comments back by saying they had been taken out of context and she was merely expressing concern for her own safety. “Why would I kill him if not for revenge from the grave? There is no reason for me to kill him. What’s the benefit for me?” she asked.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: ferdinandmarcos; philippines; saraduterte

[BobL]

Sounds like she was trained by the Democrats.

[Ann Archy]

JR. is President???? OMG!!

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

Was she trained by Mrs Clinton?? 🤣