Jury finds that Palin failed to prove defamation

The jury in Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times has found the NYT not liable in the case. The decision aligns with the judge, and both hold that the New York Times did not show reckless disregard for the truth. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin weighs in. #CNN #News

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    1. yes …during a katie couric interview katie asked about her policy on north korea …..she asked katie “why are there two koreas”….because you never watched a MASH episode ……

    2. She defamed herself when she said she could see Russia from her kitchen table – unless she owns a second home

  1. You can’t spend your entire career knowingly, purposely, and deliberately lying about others and NEVER retracting your lies, and then crying when it happens to you. This is poetic justice.

    1. @Thomas Armsworthy Jr Still not Smoking Gun.
      “All this new filing showed is that researchers who had access to existing DNS traffic mined it for information,” said Bradley Moss, a lawyer who specializes in national security. “There was no unlawful infiltration of Trump or White House servers, or anything else that has been bandied about by the conservative echo chamber.” Akerman echoed that sentiment, stating if a law had been broken someone would have been charged. “If there really was something that was proprietary that was stolen, they would have indicted this person under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. They didn’t. And so you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘What the heck is this?'”
      So far, Durham has not charged anyone with spying on Trump. The filing also did not state that any content from White House communications were read or compromised, or that the tech company Joffe worked for was on Clinton’s payroll.
      Durham also noted in the filing that the DNS lookups started as early as 2014, when Barack Obama was in office, and continued until early 2017.
      Still, Trump said the filing is “indisputable evidence” of wrongdoing by Clinton and suggested that “in a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death.”
      The former president also lambasted media outlets for what he perceived as a lack of coverage on Durham’s filing.
      “Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and the Republicans, in particular President Donald Trump, got caught illegally spying into the office of the President?” Trump said Monday. “All hell would break loose, and the electric chair would immediately come out of retirement.”

    2. @Gary Rumain The name “Project Veritas” is the American equivalent of the Soviet oxymoronic name “Pravda.”

  2. As a foreign policy expert who has lived in Alaska, and closely to Russia for years, Palin doesn’t know the laws of her own country. Sad.

    1. @Kenneth Mardis I was going to say the same thing. She’s a republican. Not knowing things is one of their trademarks.

  3. I bet she has spent that money already in anticipation of a settlement. Now she has to return her new trailer house.

  4. The only thing about defamation of character is that she has absolutely no character to defame. She’s a wart.

  5. Disappointing that the courts wouldn’t simply fine Palin for such a joke of a filing. But, glad to hear that justice ruled the day.

  6. Tbh, I’d be surprised if Palin could even spell the word “defamation”
    She sure relished the role of COVID-19 superspreader, though.
    Yet another fail for Palin, who is apparently a glutton for punishment.

  7. They corrected. Apologized 3 x. Foxnews would never do these things and hide behind “no reasonable person would believe this stuff”

    1. @NPC FREDO
      Projection! (From a bitter troll, SURPRISE!)
      Deplorable Pride is a terrible thing to waste!
      Bless yer heart.

    2. @NPC FREDO proof??? Or you looking to have a defamation lawsuit against yourself… don’t think that can’t happen either… never know what can or will happen in this digital age… careful what you say and do!!!

    1. @Jay Jay come on dummy. She had every chance to prove her case. She didn’t. If you cant trust a court of law you are a total lost cause dude.

    2. The jury was going to come back with a guilty verdict until the judge dismissed the case. Go read politico report.

    3. @Minute Meditations You’re the dummy. The jury was going to find NYTimes guilty until the judge dismissed the case.

  8. Sarah Palin can console herself by recognizing that with Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, she’s no longer the face of Republican stupidity.

    1. But she was a really sexy candidate with her sexy drilling husband!
      Sarah The Driller, can you share your husband with me, please driller, may I?

    1. @Willy Bones Durham probe says Sussman paid a firm to spy on Trump. That Hillary made up the Russia collusion story and or her campaign did not her, her campaign pushed the Russia collusion story to the CIA. Her campaign lied to the CIA. We already knew this from Mueller report that showed Hillary and DNC paid for the debunked dossier. Sussman and Igor were both indicted for lying to the FBI. Sussman lied about not having a client when he in fact did.

    2. @Melanie Cotterell sober analysis of this data reveals that Dominion has a serious case against Fox News. Efforts to destroy public trust in the electoral process are nothing to make light of, and Dominion’s lawsuit could have serious consequences for Fox and other right-wing outlets. The voting company is suing the channel for $1.6 billion in damages to its professional reputation — a sum that amounts to almost three times the profits Fox makes in a year. The evidence here suggests that Dominion is validated in its response to Fox’s propaganda. Based on the data reviewed here, Fox News has played a consistent and serious role in amplifying the Trump administration’s propaganda, which threatens to poison the public well by undermining public trust in the state and local institutions of vote counting.

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