Not just Dingell, Trump joked he’ll be in hell

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Much of the media’s frenzy over President Trump joking at a Michigan campaign rally that the late Detroit Rep. John Dingell might be in heaven or hell has ignored that he said the same thing about himself in Battle Creek.

It came long after he riffed on Dingell and how the lawmaker’s wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell, sought special treatment for her husband after he died.

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