‘Retaliation Is Real’: Republican Senator Makes Stunning Acknowledgement
Lisa Murkowski opens up back home about serving during Trump’s administration
A Republican senator made some startlingly honest revelations for a member of Donald Trump’s political party about what he’s been doing since he returned to the White House.
She made the remarks this week during a talk in front of an audience in her home state.
While most Republicans in the nation’s capital have been largely supportive of Trump and silent on his increasing turn towards authoritarianism, Sen Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, publicly opened up about those topics in a big way.
She admitted that, in this political environment, even she as a US senator is scared about speaking out.
Murkowski described it “as hard as anything that I have been engaged in, in the 20-plus years I’ve been in the Senate.”
She first was appointed to the seat by her father, who had held it himself before being elected Alaska governor, and has been elected every six years since 2004. She was reelected with a write-in vote in 2010 when she lost the Republican nomination for US Senate to a right-wing Tea Party adherent.
A rare pro-choice Republican, Murkowski is considered one of the most moderate Republicans in the Senate. She is also the only national Republican who has joined Democrats in an effort to have the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment recognized.
She voted against several of Trump’s nominees, including those of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and FBI Director Kash Patel. In addition, Murkowski has been public about opposing Trump’s desire to take over Greenland as well as his move to change the designation of North America’s highest mountain from the native Denali.
During the event this week in her home state, she was asked what she would say to those afraid of the Trump administration and its actions.
“We are all afraid, okay?” Murkowski began. “It’s quite a statement. We’re in a time and a place where, I don’t know — I certainly have not — I have not been here before. And I’ll tell you, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.
“But, that’s what you’ve asked me to do,” she added. “And so I’m going to use my voice to the best of my ability and sometimes it will be viewed in a way that, well, that’s pretty confrontational. And other times it’s going to be using my mother’s charm that I learned as a young girl and in direct communication with those that I’ve made relationships with and am able to affect some change that way.
“But I’ve got to figure out how I can do my best to help the many who are so anxious and are so afraid.”
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