Rep. Debbie Dingell said her family is “still hurting” from the loss of her late husband, former Rep. John Dingell — whom the president suggested was in hell during a heated campaign rally
Dingell sought to clean up the president’s version of events Thursday, claiming it was actually Trump who called her earlier this year to say he would be lowering the flags, and clarifying that her husband did not lie in state in the Capitol rotunda after Trump appeared to imply he had arranged a memorial there.
“I didn’t want anything that was out of the ordinary or something where somebody would do something special,” Dingell said, asserting that her husband “earned his burial” at Arlington National Cemetery as a World War II veteran and the longest-serving member of Congress. Dingell said Trump’s statements at his rally were not making it any easier for her family to mourn. Her brother-in-law entered Hospice care last month, and as difficult as Thanksgiving was without her husband, “Christmas is harder,” she said.
“We're a family grieving. So I think we should take a lesson from this and all respect each other, period,” she said. “In the broader — we need more civility in this country. Some things should be off limits. And you know what? We’re all human beings.” Dingell declined to say whether she was calling for an apology from the president, insisting that she is “not going to get into any politics” and referencing former first lady Michelle Obama’s mantra, “When they go low, we go high.”“I’m going to keep doing my job,” she concluded, adding of the president: “If he thinks he’s going to keep me from doing my job, I’m going to be right back at it when I leave here.
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