Sarah Palin bombs on witness stand in New York Times trial
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s years as a conservative provocateur, TV personality and outspoken critic of the “lamestream media” have ill-prepared her for any venue in which the federal rules of evidence hold sway. In the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Thursday, Palin and her bombast bombed.
At issue was Palin’s 2017 defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over an editorial that baselessly asserted a “political incitement” link between a map circulated in March 2010 by her political action committee (SarahPAC) and a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona. The Times corrected the editorial, and Palin sued less than two weeks after the editorial was published.
But under questioning from her attorney, Ken Turkel, Palin managed to suggest that the Times’s alleged libels were broader than the editorial, as her lawyers had previously argued. She claimed that there was, in fact, another instance when the Times committed the same mistake.
When Turkel asked about her reaction to the Times editorial, Palin said her closest associates knew that she would be “mortified” and would need to “respond again to what the New York Times had lied about again.”
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