Sarah Palin said she felt “powerless” following an emotionally “devastating” editorial in The New York Times at the centre of a high-profile defamation trial to determine whether the newspaper knowingly published false information against her.
The editorial, which was promptly corrected, falsely linked her political action committee’s map, featuring crosshairs over Democratic-leaning congressional districts, to a 2011 shooting in Arizona that killed six people and injured then US Rep Gabby Giffords.
