memeorandum: Donald Trump's Fake Renoir: The Untold Story (Nick Bilton/Vanity Fair)

10:45 AM ET, October 14, 2017

Top Items:

Bob Corker on Trump's biggest problem: The ‘castration’ of Rex Tillerson — So is Donald Trump really leading the country toward World War III? — That is the warning that lingers from the broadside delivered by Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) during his Twitter war with Trump.

Discussion: Business Insider, Shareblue Media, IJR, ThinkProgress, Axios and Mediaite

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

Trump's Iran announcement backfires — President Trump's official announcement that he will not certify the Iran deal, as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is known, set off a series of predictable and negative consequences. — First, the European Union made clear that it does not agree with Trump's move.

Discussion: Politico and RedState

Cristiano Lima / Politico: Corker unloads on Trump for trying to ‘castrate’ Tillerson

Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Corker: Trump trying to ‘publicly castrate’ Tillerson

Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and Washington Post

Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker: For Trump, “Consequences Are Piling Up” with Republicans in Washington

NBC News:

Manafort Had $60 Million Relationship With a Russian Oligarch — LONDON — Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, has much stronger financial ties to a Russian oligarch than have been previously reported. — An NBC News investigation reveals that $26 million changed hands …

Discussion: Business Insider

Alex Pappas / Fox News:

Hillary Clinton calls Trump ‘sexual assaulter’ in BBC interview, but says Bill's behavior ‘in the past’ — Hillary Clinton moved to take the heat off Harvey Weinstein Friday by outright calling President Trump a “sexual assaulter” - while roundly dismissing past allegations of sexual impropriety against her husband as old news.

Discussion: Townhall.com, MichelleMalkin.com and twitchy.com

Stephen L. Miller / Fox News: Weinstein scandal — Can Democrats afford to cut Hollywood loose?

Wall Street Journal:
Weinstein Co. Exploring Sale or Shutdown

Discussion: Variety, The Guardian, TMZ.com, Washington Free Beacon, Crime and Consequences Blog, Mediaite, IJR and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Chaos inside scandal-wracked Weinstein Co.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, KTLA, Infowars, Instapundit and WTVR-TV

Daniella Diaz / CNN:

Trump says he spoke to US Virgin Islands' ‘president’ — which is him — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump accidentally referred to the US Virgin Islands' governor as their President during a speech Friday — even though he is technically their President.

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications

Brad Reed / Raw Story: White House desperately tries to fix Trump's widely-mocked claim he met with ‘president of the Virgin Islands’

The White House:
Remarks by President Trump at the 2017 Values Voter Summit

Discussion: Mashable and The Guardian

Rachel Roubein / The Hill:

15 states sue over Trump-halted ObamaCare payments — A new multistate lawsuit has been announced to stop President Trump from halting key ObamaCare payments to insurers. — Fifteen states and Washington, D.C., are signing onto the new lawsuit, which will be filed Friday …

Discussion: Associated Press, his vorpal sword, CNBC, IJR, ThinkProgress, YouTube, Democrats.com, Daily Kos, The Guardian, ag.ny.gov, Washington Post and Axios

Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Are Launching A Legal Fight To Save Obamacare's Subsidy Payments

Discussion: RedState

Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval: Trump decision to end health-care subsidies for low-income Americans is ‘devastating’

Discussion: BostonGlobe.com, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Shareblue Media, Vox, Politico, The Atlantic and NPR

Annie Karni / Politico:

Mueller's team interviewed Priebus on Friday — Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller's team on Friday, according to his lawyer, William Burck. — “Mr. Priebus was voluntarily interviewed by Special Counsel Mueller's team today.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Axios, Daily Kos and Mediaite

Emily Smith / Page Six:
Anthony Scaramucci is romancing Kimberly Guilfoyle

Discussion: AOL

John D. Sutter / CNN:

Desperate Puerto Ricans are drinking water from a hazardous-waste site — Dorado, Puerto Rico (CNN)Jose Luis Rodriguez waited in line Friday to fill plastic jugs in the back of his pickup truck with water for drinking, doing the dishes and bathing. — But there is something …

Discussion: AOL, The Root and New York Times

Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:

Donald Trump's Fake Renoir: The Untold Story — Trump biographer Tim O'Brien talks about his years covering the developer turned reality star turned president—including a bizarre incident involving a fake impressionist painting. — Years ago, while reporting a book about a real-estate developer …

Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Raw Story

Alan Rappeport / New York Times:

Mnuchin Says Estate Tax Repeal Will Help ‘Rich People’ Most — WASHINGTON — President Trump and Republican leaders have positioned a proposed repeal of the estate tax as a way to help farmers, ranchers and small business owners. But on Friday, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary …

William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:

Gary Cohn Can't Quit Trump. Literally. He's Tried More Than Once. — Now he's one of the tiny quorum of adults around Trump—doing his “national duty,” as Trump said. “They get along again,” said a source. — Gary Cohn, Donald Trump's national economic adviser …

Adam Steinbaugh / FIRE:

Hecklers shout down California attorney general, assembly majority leader at Whittier College — Last week, Whittier College — my alma mater — hosted California's Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, in a question-and-answer session organized by Ian Calderon, the Majority Leader of the California State Assembly.

Discussion: Instapundit, Power Line and TheBlaze

Stanley Kurtz / National Review: Pro-Trumpers Shout-Down Liberal Speakers at Whittier College

Farah Stockman / New York Times:

Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico. — INDIANAPOLIS — The man from Mexico followed a manager through the factory floor, past whirring exhaust fans, beeping forklifts, and drilling machines that whined against steel. Workers in safety glasses looked up and stared.

George F. Will / Washington Post:

Sinister figures lurk around our careless president — (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) — With eyes wide open, Mike Pence eagerly auditioned for the role as Donald Trump's poodle. Now comfortably leashed, he deserves the degradations that he seems too sycophantic to recognize as such.

Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:

Texas Democrats Hesitant to Embrace Gay Candidate for Governor — A successful Dallas businessman pledging to spend in the seven figures out of his own bank account to run for governor in 2018 should be a great get for Texas Democrats. Yet the party doesn't seem to be getting behind Jeffrey Payne …

Karen Nelson / Sun Herald:

Why did Biloxi pull ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th grade lesson plan? — BILOXI — The Biloxi School District got complaints about the wording in “To Kill A Mockingbird” — an American classic being taught in 8th grade English Language Arts classes — and pulled it from the curriculum.

Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and WHNT-TV

BBC:

Trump aims blow at Iran and threatens landmark nuclear deal — US President Donald Trump has condemned Iran as a “fanatical regime” and refused to continue signing off on a landmark international nuclear deal. — In a combative speech on Friday, Mr Trump accused Iran of sponsoring terrorism and proposed new sanctions.

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, Washington Post, New York Times, Business Insider and Hit & Run