‘It’s the Fentanyl,’ Marcos Says on Duterte’s Drug Tirades
- Former leader had accused Marcos of being a ‘drug addict’
- Duterte had said he used fentanyl, had denied being addicted
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. traded accusations of drug use with his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte in his first public rebuke of the former leader as the rift between the country’s two most powerful political clans deepens.
“I think it’s the fentanyl,” Marcos told reporters on Monday, when asked to respond to Duterte’s accusations on Sunday that the president is a “drug addict” and that he was on the country’s drug watch-list.