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June 8 - 21, 2018
Kris Aquino: Bong Go apologized
for Mocha Uson ‘incident’
Kris Aquino on Wednesday
thanked Special Assistant to the
President Christopher “Bong” Go
for apologizing for an “incident” that
prompted her to publicly castigate
Communications Assistant Secretary
Margaux Uson on social media.
The youngest daughter of
former president Corazon Aquino
and former senator Benigno Aquino
Jr. earlier went live on Facebook
and Instagram to call out Uson for
disrespecting the late Aquino couple
in a bid to defend President Rodrigo
Duterte.
Aquino said she reached out to
Go after posting her lengthy video
tirade against Uson, and thanked
Duterte’s long-time aide for replying
to her messages and “believing
in the power of true and honest
communication.”
“Thank you for taking my feelings
as a daughter into consideration &
showing me EMPATHY,” Aquino said
in an Instagram post.
“I am most grateful for a man as
powerful as you are now for texting &
Vibering me the words ‘we are sorry
for the incident,’” she said.
Aquino ended her post by
assuring Go that he has her “sincerest
gratitude.”
“You have my sincere gratitude.
We all have 1 goal, a nation we can
be proud of, and the best possible
prosperous lives for all Filipinos,”
Aquino said.
“I love our country as much
as our President does. I pray for
#PEACE & mutual #respect for all
of us,” she said.
After
Aquino’s
statement,
however, Uson, in a Facebook post
Wednesday afternoon, refused to say
sorry. She wrot