Author: Orion Post Staff
NOW, it can be told: “Kingmaker, The Hardcopy” is officially a bestseller. So it has been the past many weeks, in fact. Fully booked has moved copies of “Kingmaker,” which chronicles the journey of lawyer Vic Rodriguez, placing these on its bestseller shelves in all its branches as a result of sales data on the performance of the book. Kingmaker made it onto this famous Fully Booked list, along with “Spare” by Prince Harry and “Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life” by Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others. Kingmaker was officially released July 5 and made available to Fully Booked, Solidaridad, Popular…
THE mayor of Davao City proudly posed with a copy of the book, “Kingmaker The Hardcopy” the story of lawyer Vic Rodriguez, the man who did the heavy lifting to make the return of another Marcos easier to Malacanang. Baste Duterte got his copy of the book several days ago, reading into the many surprises and inside accounts as to how Rodriguez engineered the victory of candidate Ferdinand Marcos in the May 2022 presidential elections. His sister, Sara Duterte, won as vice president in the same elections. She provided the swing vote in the Marcos victory, as documented in the…
WHEREVER you are, you can get hold of a copy of “Kingmaker, The Hardcopy,” the book that provides a courtside view of what really happened when lawyer Vic Rodriguez decided to defend vice presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos in the May 2016 elections. Rodriguez served as the candidate’s spokesman and chief campaign strategist in the May 2022 elections, and the book explores why he left 79 days into BBM’s presidency. You can get a copy from the list below: In the Philippines Inquire via VIBER:+63 915 357 3184 (no calls, please) SAKSI NGAYON:Email: [email protected]: +639770973930 (no calls) Bookstores: In Canada (Winnipeg…
WHEN old friends meet, what do they talk about? The executives of President Marcos’ Partido Federal ng Pilipinas and his May 2022 election spokesman and chief campaign strategist, lawyer Vic Rodriguez, talked about the last presidential elections. What else? So, when Rodriguez published the book, “Kingmaker, The Hardcopy”, his personal behind-the-scenes account of the 2022 campaign and elections, BBM’s party officials each rushed to buy a copy. (PFP carried Marcos in the 2022 elections, when no party was willing to make him as its standard bearer.) They met with Rodriguez, asked him to sign their copies of the book, at…
SteelAsia’s will put up five steel plants at a cost of P82 billion in the next four years to replace imports, generate new businesses, create local jobs, and stoke economic growth throughout the country. The five upcoming plants are those in: Lemery, Batangas, at a cost of P18 billion; Candelaria, Quezon, P30 billion; Davao City, P8 billion. They are expected to be completed by 2026. The two plants in Concepcion, Tarlac, are projected to cost P26 billion and will be completed in 2027. SteelAsia chairman and CEO Benjamin Yao said the new plants will produce new steel products that are…
NOTABLE alumnus of the University of Sto Tomas have expressed support for the wide distribution of “Kingmaker: The Hardcopy,” theBook that narrated the inside story how lawyer Vic Rodriguez, the erstwhile executive secretary of President Marcos, engineered Marcos’ victory in the May 2022 elections. Rodriguez is a UST-Faculty of Civil Law alumnus. Rodriguez and the book author Gerry Lirio led the launching of the book at a simple, by-invitation ceremony Joy-Nostalg Hotel & Suites in Ortigas CBD. Among the special guests were Fr. Richard G. Ang, Rector Magnificus of the University of Sto. Tomas, and another UST law alumnus, lawyer…
NO less than former President Rodrigo Duterte found the book “Kingmaker: The Hardcopy” worth reading, saying the public ought to know what went wrong between President Marcos and his former executive secretary, lawyer Vic Rodriguez. “As events unraveled,” Duterte said in the foreword of the book, “the break-up that triggered the purge at the top would only be the beginning of an irreversible slide. It would pull down, not just the power on the throne, but sadly the country and its people.” Rodriguez was Marcos’ spokesman in his 2016 electoral protest on the election of Vice President Leni Robredo, his…
WHY did lawyer Vic Rodriguez rally behind the election of Bongbong Marcos in the May 2022 elections? Why did he campaign so hard despite the Marcos family’s ill-gotten wealth and human rights record? Why did he leave 79 days after Marcos assumed the presidency? What is happening in Malacanang, with another Marcos at the helm? Rodriguez, Marcos’ first executive secretary, answers all the questions, bares all in a series of interviews compiled in this five-chapter book titled “Kingmaker, The Hardcopy”. The people are entitled to know what is happening inside the Palace, as always, for it will help bridge the…