During a rally in Battle Creek, President Trump told the crowd that the deceased Michigan Representative John Dingell might be in hell. 'I can’t explain why he’s fixated on me,' his widow Debbie, who occupies his former set, told Olivianuzzi
Rep. Dingell at an impeachment rally in September. Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for MoveOn Politica As Donald Trump told a crowd in Battle Creek that the deceased Michigan Representative John Dingell might be in hell, his widow Debbie Dingell, who occupies his former seat, was back in Washington on the House floor as Democrats voted to impeach him.
In a series of unfinished sentences and odd impersonations, Trump went on to claim that Debbie had asked for special treatment to honor John, requesting that flags be lowered and that he lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, which never happened. “Everything,” he said, “I gave him everything. That’s okay. I don’t want anything for it. I don’t need anything for anything. 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.’ I said that’s okay, don’t worry about it. Maybe he’s looking up, I don’t know. I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe.”“What did he say?” she asked me, in disbelief.
I couldn’t stop picturing a moment from earlier this year, when I saw the congresswoman at a campaign stop for Joe Biden in Detroit. Biden, who was widowed at age 30 and who has also lost two children, was a close friend of John’s, and I looked on as he embraced her and whispered in her ear. I couldn’t hear what he told her, but she nodded solemnly. “I love you,” he said, as he walked away. She said she loved him, too.
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