Donald Trump mocked Rep. Debbie Dingell took to social media late Tuesday, recalling her tears after her husband died in 2019 following Dingell’s criticism of the former president’s Christmas message.
Dingell (D-Mich.), 70, tore into Trump’s Yuletide wish for his enemies to “rot in hell,” telling CNN that it “contributes to division” in the country.
In response, Trump went on a rampage on Turth Social: “Debbie Dingell of Michigan is a LOSER, who helped Crooked Joe Biden, and his Merry Band of Thugs, to DESTROY our Country with INSANE, Inflationary, High Cost Energy, Green Policy. New Fraud, TERRIBLE WORLD DIPLOMACY, The Afghan Disaster, All Electric Cars, and more.”
“When I give, as President, her long-serving husband, the absolute supreme US [sic] honors for his funeral, such a big thing, he called me, crying almost uncontrollably, to say that he couldn’t believe I was willing to do that for a Democrat. He thanked me profusely,” said the 77-year-old. “Two months later, he’s back on track and raving about ‘TRUMP.’”
Debbie Dingell rebukes Donald Trump’s Christmas rhetoric. Rod Lamkey/CNP/MediaPunch
Dingell’s late husband, John, who served in Congress for 60 years, died in 2019 of prostate cancer at the age of 92. Debbie Dingell contested and won her seat in 2014, after John announced his retirement.
In December 2019, Trump suggested that John Dingell “raised up,” implying that he died and went to hell. His White House team defended that statement.
“You brought me down in ways you can’t imagine and your hurtful words made my healing that much more difficult,” Debbie Dingell responded at the time.
Donald Trump does not take his detractors to heart. AP
The 45th president’s Christmas message, posted on Monday, was titled “Joe Biden’s Crooked, Lost HOPE [special counsel] Jack Smith” and ended with the message: “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
Dingell called the message “sad” in an interview the next day.
“I think it’s one of the saddest Christmas speeches I’ve ever heard when a former president of the United States who wants to come back tells people on Christmas Day that they ‘can rot in hell,'” he told CNN.
The former president is the 2024 GOP front-runner. AP
The Michigan Democrat has also warned that his home state will be a clash between Republican and Democratic candidates in next year’s presidential election.
“Michigan is the purple state. I can’t always convince people of that,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier this month. “I came back in 2015 and 2016.”
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