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Dingell responds to Trump's attacks: 'We're a family grieving'

By QUINT FORGEY

Rep. Debbie Dingell on Thursday responded to President Donald Trump’s attacks on her during a campaign event the previous evening and acknowledged her family is “still hurting” from the loss of her late husband, former Rep. John Dingell — whom the president suggested was in hell.

“You know, I think it's time to put politics aside on these kind of shots,” the Michigan Democrat told CNN. “I try to be respectful of everybody. I've never taken a personal shot at this president. I think his family is off limits.”

During a rally in her home state Wednesday night, Trump told supporters that Dingell had called him after her husband died in February to thank him for “the A+ treatment” he provided by ordering all U.S. flags to fly at half-staff.

“She calls me up. It's the nicest thing that's ever happened. ‘Thank you so much. John would be so thrilled. He’s looking down. He’d be so thrilled. Thank you so much, sir,’” the president said, recounting his conversation with Dingell.

“I said, 'That’s OK, don’t worry about it.’ Maybe he’s looking up, I don’t know,” Trump added, drawing groans from the crowd. His remarks came amid the impeachment vote in the House, where Dingell and a majority of lawmakers voted to approve both of the articles of impeachment against him.

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 don’t want to politicize my husband. I don’t want to politicize his death,” Dingell said.

“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.”