memeorandum: What Harvey and Trump have in common (Tina Brown/New York Times)

2:05 AM ET, October 11, 2017

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Harvey Weinstein's Wife Georgina Chapman Is Leaving Him: ‘My Heart Breaks for All the Women Who Have Suffered’ — Harvey Weinstein's wife, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, is leaving him — as more women continue to step forward to accuse the movie mogul of decades of sexual harassment and assault.

Discussion: New York Times, TMZ.com, Washington Post, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, AOL, ABC News, Page Six, Daily Wire, IndieWire, Washington Free Beacon, The Guardian, CBS San Francisco and Mediaite

Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:

From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein's Accusers Tell Their Stories — Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive. — 1. — Since the establishment of the first studios a century ago, there have been few movie executives …

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New York Times:

Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them — “This way of treating women ends now,” Ms. Paltrow said as she and other actresses accused the producer of casting-couch abuses. — When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star …

Mike Fleming / Deadline:

Matt Damon Denies Trying To Kill 2004 NYT Harvey Weinstein Story: “If There Was Ever An Event And Harvey Was Doing This...I Would Have Stopped It” — EXCLUSIVE: The daily bombshells involving Harvey Weinstein are involving widening circles of Hollywood people, and hasty mis-characterizations are inevitable.

Discussion: Shareblue, IJR, Fox News, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, AOL, Eduwonk, IndieWire and Conservative News Today, more at Mediagazer »

Heather Graham / Variety:

Harvey Weinstein Implied I Had to Have Sex With Him for Movie Role (EXCLUSIVE) — Heather's Most Recent Stories — Following the publication on Tuesday morning of two more exposes detailing sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, actress Heather Graham recalls indirectly …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and IndieWire

Jake Tapper / CNN:
‘Email prankster’ reaches Harvey Weinstein, Lisa Bloom

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Tina Brown / New York Times:
What Harvey and Trump have in common

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, IJR, NewsBusters, The Daily Caller, Gothamist, Mashable, Deadline, Mediaite, Daily Wire, IndieWire, Conservative News Today, Refinery29, Splinter and Media Matters for America

Eli Watkins / CNN:
Hillary Clinton condemns longtime Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein

Axios:
Obama “disgusted” by reports of sexual assault by Weinstein

Discussion: Politico

Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Jake Tapper: ‘Morally Bankrupt’ to Condemn One Sexual Harasser But Not Another Because of Politics

Ali Watkins / Politico:

Carter Page says he won't testify before Senate Intelligence panel in Russia probe — Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, informed the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that he will not be cooperating with any requests to appear before the panel …

Discussion: CNN, Business Insider, Raw Story, CANNONFIRE, Washington Monthly and Political Wire

CNN:

Nunes signs off on new subpoenas to firm behind Trump-Russia dossier — (CNN)The chairman of the House intelligence committee has issued subpoenas to the partners who run Fusion GPS, the research firm that produced the dossier of memos on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign, according to sources briefed on the matter.

Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story

Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump's ex-adviser Carter Page will not testify in Russia probe: Politico

Discussion: Democrats.com

New York Times:

How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets — It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around the world for the code names of American intelligence programs.

Discussion: Axios, CNBC and Political Wire, more at Techmeme »

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached — In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency.

Los Angeles Times:

New disclosure shows a casino guard alerted hotel to gunman before Vegas massacre began. So why did it take so long to stop him? — Police say gunman Stephen Paddock shot a security guard before opening fire on concertgoers. — Before the Las Vegas massacre began, a wounded Mandalay Bay …

Discussion: Townhall.com, NPR, IJR, neo-neocon and JustOneMinute

CNN:
Las Vegas shooter fired ‘incendiary’ rounds at fuel tank

Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller

Peter Baker / New York Times:

Trump Mocks Bob Corker's Height, Escalating Feud with a Key Republican — WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attack on Senator Bob Corker on Tuesday by ridiculing him for his height, even as advisers worried that the president was further fracturing his relationship …

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A brief history of Trump challenging people to IQ tests

Discussion: The Hill, Deadline, Shareblue, Politico, Washington Monthly, Mediaite and Little Green Footballs

Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's IQ obsession, in 22 quotes

Discussion: Raw Story, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, Politico, AOL, Q13 FOX News, Business Insider, Mashable, Fox News Insider, Vox, IJR, Washington Free Beacon and Washington Times

Jeff Cox / CNBC:

Trump ‘likely obstructed justice’ in Comey firing, could be impeached, Brookings Institution says — President Donald Trump “likely obstructed justice” when he fired FBI Director James Comey and could face impeachment, according to an analysis from the Brookings Institution.

Barry H. Berke / Brookings Institution:
Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump

Discussion: TheStreet and Political Wire

Chris De Luca / Chicago Sun Times:

Ditka on America's race issues: ‘No oppression in the last 100 years’ — Sign-Up for our News & Politics Newsletter … Former Bears coach Mike Ditka appeared on Westwood One's Monday Night Football pregame show with Jim Gray before the Vikings-Bears game.

Discussion: ProFootballTalk, USA Today, IJR and TheBlaze

Jessica Guynn / USA Today:

Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for tone-deaf virtual tour of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg apologized after a live-streamed virtual trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico to promote Facebook's Spaces app drew sharp criticism on social media.

Discussion: The Guardian, CNBC, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, The Verge, New York Magazine and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Judy Kurtz / The Hill:

Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson — Bring on the IQ test — Mensa says it's willing to host President Trump and secretary of State Rex Tillerson — in a battle of the brains. — In an interview with Forbes published Tuesday, Trump suggested he and Tillerson …

Discussion: Liberal Values, Business Insider, Shareblue, Raw Story, IJR and Washington Times

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump challenges Tillerson to an ‘IQ test.’ The White House claims it was ‘a joke.’

Discussion: Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times and ABC News

Jim Tankersley / New York Times:

Kansas Tried a Tax Plan Similar to Trump's. It Failed. — WICHITA, Kan. — In December 2014, the University of Kansas agreed to pay David Beaty $800,000 a year, plus incentives, to be the football program's head coach, but with an interesting structure: More than two-thirds of that pay …

BuzzFeed:

Steve Bannon Privately Slammed Pence VP Pick — “This is the price we pay.” — Steve Bannon privately slammed the selection of Mike Pence as Donald Trump's running mate a month before taking over the Trump campaign, according to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News.

Discussion: The Guardian and IJR

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Bannon vented about Pence VP pick before joining campaign: report

Discussion: RedState and Political Wire

Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:

Zinke: If We Take Down Confederate Statues, ‘Indians’ Will Complain About Union Ones — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says that the Trump Administration will not remove Confederate monuments from federal lands out of consideration for the feelings of “native Indians.” — “Where do you start and where do you stop?”

Discussion: Raw Story

Robert Barnes / Washington Post:

Supreme Court dismisses case against Trump's expired travel ban — In the one-paragraph order, the court said that because President Trump's executive order “expired by its own terms” on Sept. 24, “the appeal no longer presents a ‘live case or controversy.’” (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Discussion: Politico and Axios

Kevin Seifert / ESPN:

Roger Goodell sends letter to NFL teams, wants players to stand during anthem — The NFL has developed a plan to “move past” its ongoing debate about player protests during the national anthem and could enact it next week, commissioner Roger Goodell wrote Tuesday in a letter to all 32 teams.

Discussion: ABC News, TheBlaze, Mediaite and Daily Kos

Lola Ogunyemi / The Guardian:

I am the woman in the ‘racist Dove ad’. I am not a victim — When Dove offered me the chance to be the face of a new body wash campaign, I jumped. I had no idea I would become the unwitting poster child for racist advertising … rom a very young age, I've been told, “You're so pretty ... for a dark-skinned girl.”

Discussion: Mashable, The Daily Caller, NBC News, The Guardian and The Root

Kevin Robillard / Politico:

Twitter reverses decision, will allow Blackburn to promote Senate ad — Twitter is reversing a decision to block Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee from promoting her Senate campaign launch video on the social network. — The company on Monday said a line in Blackburn's video referencing …

Discussion: Vox, IJR, Mediaite and Fox News Insider

Randall Lane / Forbes:

Trump Unfiltered: The Full Transcript Of The President's Interview With Forbes — President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Forbes Magazine Editor Randall Lane and Chief Product Officer Lewis D'Vorkin in the Oval Office on Friday, October 6th. White House Communications Director Hope Hicks also sat in.

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Shareblue