Misleading

A recent YouTube video has used a truncated clip to paint Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo as being unable to answer an question she was asked during an online forum.

The unflattering clip in the video uploaded Jan. 2 by the KLOROX BOYS channel shows Robredo giving an incomplete response to the question, “How different a president would you be?”, apparently to support the video’s title:

LENI ROBREDO NA UTAL UTAL NANG TINANONG: HOW DIFFERENT A PRESIDENT WILL YOU BE (Robredo stammers when asked: How different a president will you be)?

In reality, the clip, inserted as an overlay at the 0:50 mark in the video, cuts off Robredo midsentence while she was answering how she would respond to crises and how different she would be from the country’s other presidents, especially the two women leaders, Corazon Aquino and Gloria Arroyo.

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