Philippine president says Trump complimented him on his controversial drug campaign
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump praised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug campaign — a bloodbath that has taken the lives of nearly 5,000 suspected drug dealers and users — in a phone call on Friday night, Duterte said.
Trump told the Philippine leader that he was conducting his drug war “the right way” and invited him to the White House, Duterte said, according to the Philippine Inquirer.
“The President-elect Trump wishes to extend his warmest regards to the Filipino people,” Duterte recounted, according to the newspaper. “And in just a few minutes, we were talking [about] a lot of things. He was quite sensitive also to our worry about drugs.”
“And he wishes me well too, in my campaign and he said that… well we are doing it as a sovereign nation, the right way,” he continued. “And he wishes us well. And I said that, well, we assured him of our ties with America.”
Trump’s transition team confirmed that the phone call took place, but did not say whether Trump praised the Philippine president’s drug war or invited him to the White House.
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