Rep. Debbie Dingell said she does not want an apology after President Trump suggested her late husband may be in hell.
The Michigan Democrat appeared on Fox News Sunday with host Chris Wallace to talk about Trump and explain her vote to impeach the president. Trump joked last week about the late Rep. John Dingell at a Michigan rally held moments after House Democrats and independent Rep. Justin Amash voted to impeach him.
Wallace, paraphrasing White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, said Trump took Dingell’s vote to impeach him personally after he ordered the flags to fly at half-staff in February to honor her husband after he died.
“I guess the argument is, he did something nice for you. He did order the flags to be lowered to half-staff, and you voted to impeach him,” Wallace said.
Dingell said Trump’s kind gesture and her impeachment vote are “two different issues for me.”
“We have to learn in our country that you can disagree agreeably. I understand that this impeachment was a very personal issue to him. But I think there are lines that you don’t cross, and I think he crossed a line there,” Dingell said, adding that the president’s comments “kicked me in the stomach.”
“I don’t need an apology; I don’t want an apology. I don’t want a campaign to begin around that,” she continued. “What I do want is people to take a deep breath and think going forward that their words have consequences.”
