Donald Trump mocked Rep. Debbie Dingell on social media Tuesday night, recalling her crying after her husband’s death in 2019 following Dingell’s rebuke of the former president’s brusque Christmas message.
Dingell (D-Mich.), 70, criticized Trump’s Christmas wish that his enemies “rot in hell” and told CNN it was “contributing to division” in the country.
In response, Trump raged at Turth Social: “Debbie Dingell from Michigan is a LOSER, who is helping corrupt Joe Biden and his merry band of thugs DESTROY our country with their CRAZY open borders, inflation, high cost energy policy and green politics.” New scam, HORRIBLE WORLD DIPLOMACY, catastrophe in Afghanistan, fully electric cars and much more.”
“When I granted, as president, her husband of so many years, the highest [sic] honors for his funeral, something really important, he called me, crying almost uncontrollably, to tell me that he couldn’t believe I was willing to do that for a Democrat. “He thanked me very much,” the 77-year-old woman continued. “Two months later, she was back on the road ranting and raving about ‘TRUMP.’”
Debbie Dingell criticized 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 age 92. Debbie Dingell ran and won her seat in 2014, after John announced her retirement.
In December 2019, Trump suggested that John Dingell was “looking up,” implying that he died and went to hell. His White House team defended those comments.
“You broke me down in ways you could never imagine and your hurtful words made my healing that much harder,” Debbie Dingell responded at the time.
Donald Trump does not look favorably on those who insult him. AP
The 45th president’s Christmas message, released Monday, is called “Corrupt, Deranged Joe Biden’s ONLY HOPE.” [special counsel] Jack Smith” and concluded with the message: “LET THEM ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
Dingell called the message “pathetic” in an interview the next day.
“I think it was one of the most pathetic Christmas greetings 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 Republican Party’s favorite for 2024. AP
The Michigan Democrat also warned that her home state will be a toss-up between Republican and Democratic candidates in next year’s presidential election.
“Michigan is a purple state. “I can’t always convince people of that,” she told NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier this month. “I was there in 2015 and 2016.”
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