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Trump Endorses Sarah Palin for Congress

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Former President Donald Trump enthusiastically endorsed former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her run to fill Rep. Don Young’s (R-AK) congressional seat.

Hailing the former Alaska governor as a “wonderful patriot,” Donald Trump praised Palin for her persistence in the face of the Democrats’ attacks on her.

“Wonderful patriot Sarah Palin of Alaska just announced that she is running for Congress, and that means there will be a true America First fighter on the ballot to replace the late and legendary Congressman Don Young,” said Trump.

Sarah Palin notably endorsed Trump very early in the 2016 primaries. “We are ready for a change. We are ready and our troops deserve the best, a new Commander-in-Chief whose track record of success has proven he is the master at ‘The Art of the Deal,’” she said.

In his endorsement, Trump recalled how Palin elevated the 2008 McCain campaign as the media and establishment Republicans sabotaged her. (Read more from “Trump Endorses Sarah Palin for Congress” HERE)

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Sarah Palin Open to Serving in Late Don Young’s House Seat

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is open to replacing Rep. Don Young after the longtime congressman died late last week.

Palin, 58, made the comments Monday as Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration sorts out a complicated process that will include not only a special election to seat a replacement this year but also a primary and general election to determine who will take the seat for the next two-year term.

“Think of those huge shoes that are to be filled when we consider Don Young’s longevity and his passion, his love, his fighting spirit for our wonderful state of Alaska and for the nation as a whole,” Palin told Newsmax. “If I were asked to serve in the House and take his place, I would be humbled and honored, and I would. Yeah, in a heartbeat, I would.”

Palin, a Republican, served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009. Before she resigned, Palin became John McCain’s vice presidential running mate in the 2008 presidential election, which they lost to the Democrats’ Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Palin has not held office since. (Read more from “Sarah Palin Open to Serving in Late Don Young’s House Seat” HERE)

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Jury Rules in Sarah Palin Defamation Case

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A Manhattan jury found that The New York Times did not defame former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial that claimed her political action committee was connected to the 2011 shooting of a Democratic member of Congress.

Palin and her attorneys argued that The New York Times libeled her in the editorial, which posited a “clear … link to political incitement” through a map her organization distributed that listed Democratic members of Congress who would be targeted in the 2012 midterms. Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was listed on the map, was shot by a mentally ill man at an event outside a grocery store. No link between Palin’s advertising and the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was ever established.

Loughner was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and ruled unfit to stand trial. He is currently housed at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, a facility for inmates with long-term mental healthcare needs.

(Read more from “Jury Rules in Sarah Palin Defamation Case” HERE)

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Judge Dismisses Sarah Palin’s Defamation Suit Against New York Times

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On Monday, a federal judge stated that although the jury is still deliberating, he plans to dismiss the defamation lawsuit former GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin filed against The New York Times after it falsely suggested in a 2017 editorial that an ad circulated by Palin’s political-action committee triggered a mass shooting near Tucson, Arizona, in 2011 that left six people dead and 13 wounded.

Judge Jed S. Rakoff asserted that Palin’s legal team had not proven The Times acted with actual malice in its June 14, 2017 editorial, which was corrected the morning after it was published. On the day of the editorial, a gunman had opened fire at a baseball field where GOP congressmen were practicing; Congressman Steve Scalise was seriously wounded and others were injured.

The Times recalled on Monday, “The headline was ‘America’s Lethal Politics,’ and the editorial asked whether the Virginia shooting was evidence of how vicious American politics had become.”

“The paper’s editorial cited a ‘targets’ website created by Ms. Palin for the 2010 midterm elections that featured crosshairs over Democratic House districts, including Ms. Gifford’s. ‘The link to political incitement was clear,’ states a later-deleted line from the piece,” The Wall Street Journal noted when the lawsuit was filed in 2017.

Rakoff stated on Monday, “This is an example of very unfortunate editorializing on the part of The Times,” but added, “my job is to apply the law. … The law sets a very high standard for actual malice, and in this case the court finds that that standard has not been met,” The Washington Post reported. He noted he would continue to let the jury deliberate to a conclusion, though it would be dismissed and opined that Palin would likely appeal his decision, adding that an appeals court “would greatly benefit from knowing how the jury would decide” the case. (Read more from “Judge Dismisses Sarah Palin’s Defamation Suit Against New York Times” HERE)

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Palin Wants ‘Masked Singer’ Footage Barred From Jury in NYT Suit

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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.

In a court filing in the Manhattan federal suit Monday, the former GOP vice presidential candidate listed a number of proposed exhibits she wants hidden from the jury because they could cause “unfair prejudice and confusion,” among other issues.

Among the exhibits listed are “Masked Singer Video – Dancing and Rapping” and “Masked Singer Video – Reveal.”

The list includes dozens of other proposed exhibits that Palin doesn’t want a jury to see unless a judge signs off on their admissibility beforehand.

A number of press articles about Palin and the Times’ editorial are included on the list, as are multiple statements made on social media and other content from the internet. (Read more from “Palin Wants ‘Masked Singer’ Footage Barred From Jury in NYT Suit” HERE)

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‘Over My Dead Body’: Palin Tells TPUSA Conference She Won’t Get Vaccinated (VIDEO)

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drove a crowd into a frenzy when she told them she would never get a vaccine.

“It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot,” Palin told attendees of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2021 in Phoenix, AZ. “I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either.”

When asked by TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk what she would say to people who might be fired from a job or kicked out of school over an unwillingness to comply with a vaccine mandate, Palin answered, “I think if enough of us … rise up and say, ‘No, enough is enough,’ there are more of us than there are of them.” (Read more from “‘Over My Dead Body’: Palin Tells TPUSA Conference She Won’t Get Vaccinated (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Obama Blames Sarah Palin for Rise of Donald Trump

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In his new post-presidency memoir, former President Barrack Obama explicitly states that his election in 2008 gave rise to racial tensions in the United States that he says President Donald Trump exploited for political purposes. He also accuses former Gov. Sarah Palin, the vice presidential nominee in 2008, of unleashing “xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, and antipathy towards black and brown folks” in the Republican Party, giving way to Trump’s rise.

“It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted,” Obama writes. “Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.”

Obama’s memoir, titled “A Promised Land,” details his childhood, rise in politics, historic presidential campaign, and the first four years of his presidency. The book, which is due out Nov. 17, is the first volume of a planned two-volume work. In excerpts from the book published by CNN, Obama accuses the Republican Party, and Palin in particular, of making racist and conspiratorial attitudes mainstream.

“Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party — xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks — were finding their way to center stage,” Obama writes.

He said he “wonder(s) sometimes” about whether the late 2008 Republican nominee John McCain would still have chosen Palin if he had known “her spectacular rise and her validation as a candidate would provide a template for future politicians, shifting his party’s center and the country’s politics overall in a direction he abhorred.” (Read more from “Obama Blames Sarah Palin for Rise of Donald Trump” HERE)

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Sarah Palin’s Husband Files for Divorce

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Todd Palin has filed for divorce from Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and GOP vice presidential candidate, citing “incompatibility of temperament” and that “they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife.”

Todd Palin, 55, asked to dissolve the couple’s 31-year marriage in a filing submitted Friday in Anchorage Superior Court. The paperwork was submitted on Aug. 29, eight days after the couple’s anniversary.

The filing, first reported by the Anchorage Daily News, only uses initials but details the couple’s marriage date and the birth date of their 11-year-old son, Trig, and asks for an equal separation of assets and debts.

The two have been married since 1988 and have five children: Track, Trig, Bristol, Willow and Piper. Todd Palin’s filing asks for shared custody of Trig, who has Down Syndrome.

Sarah Palin, also 55, was elected governor of Alaska in 2006 and resigned in 2009, before the end of her four-year term. She also served as the late Sen. John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, ultimately losing the election to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. (Read more from “Sarah Palin’s Husband Files for Divorce” HERE)

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Shocking: A Politician Formerly Incredibly Close to McCain Cut From Attending Funeral Service

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By Conservative Tribune. . .As news coverage of memorial services for the late Sen. John McCain maintain a steady, prominent presence in the media, details about the Arizona political giant’s funeral are also providing a reliable source of buzz for reporters looking for an opportunity to snipe at the American right. . .

According to reports first broken by People magazine, the McCain family has made it clear that Palin, a woman who ran as McCain’s vice presidential candidate in his doomed campaign against Barack Obama in 2008, was not even welcome at his funeral. . .

An apparently separate source backed up the statement, and speculated that the decision had been made by McCain’s widow.

“My guess is, it came from Cindy,” People quoted that source, “close to the McCain family,” as saying. “She is very protective of John’s memory and legacy. She’s also a grieving widow. I think she wants to get through this as best she can.” . . .

“‘Donald Trump and Sarah Palin were not served official notice outright,’ says the source close to the McCain family. ‘I want to make that clear. It wasn’t a no-trespass order. They won’t be turned away by guards if they show up at the funeral.’” (Read more from “Shocking: A Politician Formerly Incredibly Close to McCain Cut From Attending Funeral Service” HERE)

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John Mccain Death: Daughter Meghan Breaks Down Into Tears Over Father’s Coffin at Memorial

By Express. Meghan, who is the late Senator’s daughter, was teary in several moments during the ceremony, but when she she stepped up to her father’s coffin after her mother, Cindy, she seemed to shake.

She touched the coffin with her right hand, leaning on it for support before walking away while sobbing.

Meghan was clearly close to her father and when the veteran passed away on Saturday she shared a heartbreaking statement and tribute on Twitter.

She wrote: “All that I am is thanks to him.

“Now that he is gone, the task of my lifetime is to live up to his example, his expectations, and his love.” (Read more from “John McCain Death: Daughter Meghan Breaks Down Into Tears Over Father’s Coffin at Memorial” HERE)

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Could Comedian’s Stunt With Sarah Palin Land Him in Jail?

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Sacha Baron Cohen is getting plenty of attention for stunts he apparently pulled for his latest undercover comedy show, “Who is America?” One in particular, which targeted former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, may turn out to be illegal.

According to Palin, the comedian posed as a wounded veteran in order to arrange an interview with the former Alaska governor. Palin said in a Facebook post that she traveled cross-country for the interview. After finding the conversation to be full of “sarcasm” and “disrespect,” Palin said she “finally had enough and literally, physically removed my mic and walked out.” . . .

The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 makes it a crime to lie about being a recipient of military decorations or medals “with intent to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit.” A stunt for highly lucrative television show could certainly count as a “tangible benefit.” A previous version of the Act from 2005 had much broader restriction against lying about past military service, but the Supreme Court said it violated the First Amendment in an opinion written by the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.

If Cohen was wearing anything meant to look like military decorations, or if he told Palin he was a recipient, he could be in violation. Penalties include fines and/or imprisonment for up to a year. . .

Cohen has a history of dressing up in character in order to fool people into granting interviews and saying potentially embarrassing things. Past characters include Ali G, Borat, and Bruno. With each of these characters appearing on television and in their own movies, Cohen apparently had to find another approach for his new show, which premiers Sunday on Showtime. (Read more from “Could Comedian’s Stunt With Sarah Palin Land Him in Jail?” HERE)

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