HuffPo | Duterte called his critics “whores” and said Thursday that he was being “sarcastic” when he made the rape comments.
His spokesman had said earlier that he was using “heightened bravado”
to boost morale among the soldiers who are enforcing newly instituted
martial law on Mindinao in a crackdown on Islamic militants.
Duterte directed his fury at Chelsea Clinton. “When your father was screwing Lewinsky and the rest of the young girls there
in the office of the president, on the table ... on the sofa, did you
raise any” criticism? Duterte asked in a speech Thursday, according to
The Associated Press. Chelsea Clinton was a teenager during the Lewinsky
scandal in 1998.
The
comments were similar to ones Duterte made Wednesday. But some passages
were so crude that the words were later muted on a government video of
his speech that day, AP reported.
Clinton has not responded on Twitter.
Duterte
also accused U.S. soldiers of raping women in the Philippines and
Japan. “You Americans, like Chelsea, be careful because you live in a glass house,” he said, The New Zealand Herald reported.
