Dingell: I would rather people ‘take a deep breath and think going forward’ than get an apology from Trump

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said on Sunday that she did not want an apology from President Trump over comments he made suggesting her late husband John was not in heaven, saying she would instead prefer people “take a deep breath and think going forward that their words have consequences.”

Dingell said on “Fox News Sunday” that Trump’s comments at a rally last Wednesday “just sort of kicked me in the stomach,” adding that when the president called her and agreed to lower flags after her husband’s death, “he was kind and empathetic and it meant a lot to someone who had lost her husband.”

{mosads}Asked by host Chris Wallace about her subsequent vote to impeach Trump, Dingell responded: “Those are two different issues for me … we have to learn in our country that you can agree to disagree agreeably.”

“I think there are lines you don’t cross,” Dingell added. “I don’t want an apology, I don’t want a campaign to begin around that. What I do want is people to take a deep breath and think going forward that their words have consequences, that they can hurt, and how do we bring more civility back to our political environment?”

Wallace showed Dingell a statement her late husband had issued in memory of the late former President George H.W. Bush that described Bush as “horrified at the sight of our national discourse” and “watching too many people speak past each other.”

Dingell and Wallace agreed on the coarsening of political discourse, with Dingell saying “I would like to work with the president and everybody else to just be a little kinder.”

During a rally in Michigan, Trump suggested that the late Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the former dean of the House, was “looking up” from from hell.