A federal jury in Manhattan has ruled that the New York Times did not libel Sarah Palin in an op-ed that falsely implicated Palin’s political action committee (PAC) of “political incitement” in the shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords. In June 2017, the same day that a leftist shot Rep. Steve Scalise during a congressional baseball practice, the Times ran an op-ed headlined “America’s Lethal Politics.” The piece claimed that Palin’s PAC had shared a map with 20 Democratic lawmakers, including Giffords, in “stylized crosshairs” before her shooting. It asserted that “the link to political incitement was clear.” Palin responded to the outrageous claims by filing a lawsuit against the newspaper and its former editorial page editor, James Bennet. The former governor was burdened with…
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