U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth criticized President Donald Trump for implying that fellow Rep. Debbie Dingell’s late husband may be in hell, calling it a reminder that Trump is “rotten to the core” and suggested that “hell will be too good for him.”
“It’s moments like these that we are reminded that the president is not only a criminal, he is impulsively cruel and truly rotten to the core,” Yarmuth said in a post on Twitter Thursday morning. “Hell will be too good for him.”
The Kentucky Democrat’s comments came the morning after he voted, along with a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives, to impeach Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump is only the third president in history to be impeached.
Dingell is a Michigan Democrat, as was her husband, former Rep. John Dingell, who retired in 2015 after serving in the House for nearly 60 years and died in February 2019.
Dingell voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday. That same night, Trump made his much-decried comments about her husband at a rally in Battle Creek, Michigan.
During the rally, Trump emphasized that he provided Dingell with “A-plus treatment” after her husband died, noting that he ordered American flags be lowered to honor the late, longtime Congressman as an example of his magnanimity.
“Maybe he’s looking up,” Trump said of John Dingell — a statement that implied he went to hell after he died. “I don’t know. Let’s assume he’s looking down.”
Dingell addressed Trump’s comments about her husband in a CNN interview Thursday.
“I don’t want to politicize my husband. I don’t want to politicize his death,” she said. “It is still something that I’m really grieving over.
“I try to be respectful of everybody. I’ve never taken a personal shot at this president. I think his family is off-limits,” she said, and called for more civility in America.
“The rhetoric, the bullying, the viciousness isn’t OK and there are too many people across this country that are beginning to think that it is OK,” Dingell said.
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Written by Morgan Watkins. Cross-posted from the
Courier-Journal via the Kentucky Press News Service.