An assertion in a New York Times editorial that linked a 2011 mass shooting to a map created by Sarah Palin’s political action committee was an “honest mistake” and not a part of a conspiracy by the newspaper to smear the former Alaska governor, a lawyer for the Gray Lady said Friday. Attorney David Axelrod made the argument in his closing statement to the Manhattan federal court jury that will soon decide if the Times defamed Palin in the 2017 editorial, “America’s Lethal Politics.” “It’s about an honest mistake,” Axelrod told the nine-person jury. “It wasn’t a political hit piece.”
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