Site Behind Northam Revelations Is Backed by GOP Operatives
Big League Politics was first to post a photo from the Virginia governor’s yearbook page of a man in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan costume
The website that broke the story of the racist yearbook photo that is imperiling the governorship of Virginia Democrat Ralph Northam is a scrappy, pro-Trump outfit backed by Republican operatives, part of a growing wave of low-cost, ideologically driven news publishers.
On Friday, Big League Politics was the first to post the image of Gov. Northam’s medical school yearbook page showing a photo of a man in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan costume. The revelation prompted calls for his resignation from many prominent...