Trump rips ‘loser’ Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell, recalls her ‘crying’ at husband’s death

Donald Trump mocked Rep. Debbie Dingell on social media late Tuesday, bringing up her weeping after her husband died in 2019 following Dingell’s rebuke of the former president’s gruff Christmas message.

Dingell (D-Mich.), 70, ripped Trump’s Yuletide wish for his enemies to “rot in hell,” telling CNN that it was “contributing to the divisiveness” and division in the country.

In response, Trump raged on Turth Social: “Debbie Dingell of Michigan is a LOSER, who is helping Crooked Joe Biden, and his Merry Band of Thugs, to DESTROY our Country with his INSANE Open Borders Policy, Inflation, High Cost Energy, Green New Scam, HORRIBLE WORLD DIPLOMACY, Afghanistan Catastrophe, All Electric Cars, and so much else.”

“When I gave, as President, her long serving husband, the absolute highest U.S. [sic] honors for his funeral, a really big deal, she called me, crying almost uncontrollably, to say that she couldn’t believe I was willing to do that for a Democrat. She thanked me profusely,” the 77-year-old went on. “Two months later, she was back on the trail ranting and raving about ‘TRUMP.’”

Dingell’s late husband John, who served in Congress for 60 years, died in 2019 from prostate cancer at age 92. Debbie Dingell ran for and won his seat in 2014, after John announced his 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 remarks.

“You brought me down in a way you can never imagine and your hurtful words just made my healing much harder,” Debbie Dingell responded at the time.

The 45th president’s Christmas message, posted Monday, name-checked “Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY HOPE, Deranged [special counsel] Jack Smith” and concluded with the message: “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”

Dingell called the message “pathetic” in an interview the following day.

“I think it was one of the most pathetic Christmas greetings I’ve heard when a former president of the United States who wants to return tells people on Christmas Day that they ‘can rot in hell,’” she told CNN.

The Michigan Democrat has also warned that her home state will be a toss-up between the Republican and Democratic nominees in next year’s presidential election.

“Michigan’s a purple state. I can’t always convince people of that,” she told NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier this month. “I was right back in 2015 and 2016.”