Accusing his political opponents of being “deranged” and “thugs,” Donald Trump delivered his Christmas message on Truth Social: “May they rot in hell.” Trump is totally out of control. His rhetoric is that of an unstable man. In words that sound like Hitler, he accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.” This is a man who is leading the polls to be the Republican nominee for the presidency. Facing 91 criminal counts, he clearly cannot control himself. The question is who will take him on.
Rep. Debbie Dingell, the congresswoman from Michigan and the widow of John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress (59 years), did on CNN, and she got the Trump treatment. She told CNN, rightly, “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. He is contributing to the divisiveness and division in this country.”
Hours later, Trump went after her. Returning to a grudge he has held since she voted for his impeachment in 2019, he attacked her and her late husband. “When I gave, as President, her long serving husband, the absolute highest U.S. 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,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “She thanked me profusely. Two months later, she was back on the trail ranting and raving about ‘TRUMP.”’
It was a repeat of his earlier rebukes of Debbie Dingell, who he excoriated in 2019, complete with attacks on her late husband who he said was “looking up” from hell. As she told CNN, “After he went after me, quite frankly, there were men outside of my house with assault weapons, and I have had threats.” His latest comments no doubt will produce more threats, which didn’t slow him down.
