The US president has not made any assertion supporting Duterte’s launch; comparable posts have been debunked since Duterte’s arrest in March 2025
Declare: US President Donald Trump plans to safe the discharge of former president Rodrigo Duterte from the custody of the Worldwide Felony Courtroom (ICC).
Score: FALSE
Why we fact-check this: The Fb reel bearing the declare was uploaded on July 17 and has garnered 383,000 views, 18,500 reactions, 2,500 feedback, 5,500 shares, and 664 saves, as of writing.
The video’s narrator says, “Magandang balita ‘to. Excellent news. Nandyan si Donald Trump na gusto niyang kunin sa ICC si Duterte. Kaya sa mga nanonood sa aking video ngayon, maniwala na kayo, hindi ito faux information. Abangan na lang natin ang mga kabanata nito kapag makuha na si Duterte ni Trump.”
(That is excellent news. Excellent news. Donald Trump desires to free Duterte from the ICC. So, to everybody watching my video proper now, imagine it — this isn’t faux information. Let’s simply await the subsequent developments as soon as Trump has freed Duterte.)
The video additionally makes use of an edited picture of Duterte facet by facet with Trump, who’s proven carrying a Captain America swimsuit.
The information: There aren’t any official statements from Trump or the White Home indicating that the US president is in search of or intends to hunt Duterte’s launch from the ICC.
Whereas Trump and Duterte maintained a cordial relationship throughout their phrases as presidents, the previous has not made any public remarks about Duterte’s ICC case.
It’s also extremely unlikely that the US chief is planning to safe Duterte’s launch from ICC custody. The US is not a state social gathering to the Rome Statute, the treaty establishing the ICC, and has no authority to intrude within the courtroom’s affairs.
The US can be at odds with the ICC. On July 13, 2026, the US authorities asserted that the ICC has no jurisdiction over Individuals and introduced a sweeping marketing campaign focusing on the courtroom over its investigations involving American servicemen and intelligence officers.
Duterte trial: Duterte stays on the ICC detention heart in The Hague, Netherlands, the place he has been detained since his March 2025 arrest.
The ICC has scheduled the begin of his trial on November 30, 2026. The previous president faces fees of crimes towards humanity resulting from his alleged involvement within the killings beneath his conflict on medicine and the Davao Demise Squad.
The courtroom is about to carry its subsequent standing convention on the case on September 16, 2026.
Debunked: Related fact-check articles have been printed by Rappler on claims associated to Trump and Duterte’s ICC case:
– Jennifer Pading/Rappler.com
Jennifer Jezreel Kaye Pading is an economics scholar at Visayas State College in Baybay Metropolis in Leyte. An Aries Rufo Journalism Fellow for 2026, she can be the Govt Editor of Amaranth and neighborhood officer of AYEJ-Leyte Panaad Ha Sinirangan.
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