Rep Senator seeks Trump resignation.

US Senator Lisa Murkowski on Friday became the chamber's first Republican to publicly call for embroiled Donald Trump's resignation as the president has 'caused enough damage' to the nation. The Alaska lawmaker also questioned her future as a Republican, warning that if her party remains in thrall of Trump despite his inciting a mob to storm the US Capitol, then she could leave it for good. 'I want him to resign. I want him out. He has caused enough damage,' Murkowski, seething over the president's behavior, told the Anchorage Daily News in an interview, while the Democrats are readying impeachment motion to be moved in days. 'He hasn't been focused on what is going on with COVID. He's either been golfing or he's been inside the Oval Office fuming and throwing every single person who has been loyal and faithful to him under the bus,' she said. 'He only wants to stay there for his ego. He needs to get out. He needs to do the good thing, but I don't think he's capable of doing a good thing.' Murkowski, 63, has bucked her party and Trump on numerous occasions, including voting against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. In 2010, after losing her primary, she mounted a write-in campaign as a rival Republican - and won. 'But I will tell you, if the...

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