Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has issued a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for erroneously tying her to the shooting of former Democratic Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords.

As TruthRevolt previously reported, the NYT made the correlation between Palin and the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and badly injured Giffords in the days after Republican congressmen were targeted by a leftist gunman. The Times pointed to a map produced by Palin’s political action committee which “targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.” The NYT was trying to downplay the outrage by Republicans of how the anti-Trump rhetoric led to the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise. In fact, they said there has never been a clearer or more direct “link to political incitement” than the one between Palin and Gifford. Eventually, the NYT retracted that statement from the piece because there is absolutely no evidence to support it.

Here's the wording from Palin's suit:

“Mrs. Palin brings this action to hold The Times accountable for defaming her by publishing a statement about her that it knew to be false: that Mrs. Palin was responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011.

“Specifically, on June 14, 2017, The Times Editorial Board, which represents the ‘voice’ of The Times, 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, and killing six, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll and a nine-year-old girl.

“As the public backlash over The Times’ malicious column mounted, it responded by making edits and ‘corrections’ to its fabricated story, along with half-hearted Twitter apologies–none of which sufficiently corrected the falsehoods that the paper published. In fact, none mentioned Mrs. Palin or acknowledged that Mrs. Palin did not incite a deranged man to commit murder.”

The suit states the amount of compensation will be established at the trial.

H/T Daily Caller