"INVESTIGATIONS in aid of reelection" has been a longstanding joke about inquiries and probes launched by Congress committees. That joke refers to the fact that such investigations very rarely result in substantial legislation. Instead, at best, they boost legislators' popularity as a result of media coverage and have even succeeded in raising funds for themselves from those threatened by the inquiries — thus helping their reelection.
The two investigations being conducted in Congress now are investigations on steroids, the scale and intensity of which has never happened before. But the real aim of these investigations is far, far more sinister, and that is to totally politically destroy former president Rodrigo Duterte so he will be a feeble, even marginal force in the May 2025 midterm elections.
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