Sarah Palin wants jurors to be barred from seeing footage of her appearance on the “Masked Singer” in her defamation case against the New York Times that may go to trial in the coming weeks.
It was not clear why the New York Times would want to use “Masked Singer” video footage at the trial.Palin sued the New York Times in 2017 after the newspaper published an editorial headlined “America’s Lethal Politics” about a spate of shootings that targeted elected officials in recent years.
Palin claimed the Times defamed her when it “falsely stated as a matter of fact to millions of people that Mrs. Palin incited Jared Loughner’s January 8, 2011, shooting rampage at a political event in Tucson, Arizona, during which he shot nineteen people, severely wounding United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords …”