Sarah Palin Attorney: Emails Show New York Times Ignored Its Own Fact-Checker
Opening statements in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s defamation case against the New York Times began on Thursday.
The case is over an editorial they released in 2017 entitled “America’s Lethal Politics.”
They were forced to correct the story after they tried to link Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shooter to Palin’s Sarah PAC.
After a delay of more than a week due to the plaintiff’s having tested positive for Covid, attorneys finally gave opening statements in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Thursday.
The lawsuit centers around an editorial that the Times published in June 2017, shortly after a shooting that left Republican Congressman Steve Scalise wounded.
