MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The embattled chair of the Minnesota Republican Party said Tuesday that she won’t resign amid the uproar over the indictment of a major GOP donor and a college Republican chapter leader on sex-trafficking charges. But she insisted she knew nothing about his alleged sex trafficking before his indictment was unsealed last week. “To ask me to resign because I knew somebody, or was friends with somebody, I think is wrong, and I will not resign over that. To ask me to resign over all these false accusations, and this defamation of character and this libel, this slander that’s going on about me, absolutely not,” Carnahan said on Minneapolis-based WCCO Radio. Lazarro and co-defendant Gisela Castro Medina, 19, the former chair of the University of St. Thomas College Republicans chapter, face multiple federal sex-trafficking charges.

Source: thestar August 17, 2021 22:52 UTC