On Thursday, Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte's legal counsel questioned Senator Antonio Trillanes IV's motives for asking the son of President Duterte to strip to show his tattoo.
"Why does he want to see my client's tattoo? Is he gay? If he's gay I may have allowed him to see it," lawyer Rainier Madrid told reporters.
Madrid said he advised Duterte to decline showing his tattoo as the body mark was not related to the subject of the nearly 4-hour long congressional inquiry.
"My client refuses to be an "uto-uto" (gullible)... I will not allow my client to be humiliated under such a silly circumstance," Madrid said.
"We do not want to dignify Trillanes' accusations and fishing expedition. The issue discussed in the committee is not the existence of the tattoo," he added.
Madrid said he neither saw nor got a confirmation from the Davao vice mayor if the tattoo on his back was a "colored dragon" as Trillanes alleged.
"A tattoo is a very private matter. I won't ask my client to show it to me unless I'm gay and I want to see his body," he said.
Atty. Rainier Madrid said Trillanes was just spewing propaganda to get back at President Rodrigo Duterte for not choosing the former military man as his running mate in the 2016 presidential elections.