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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDemocratic Vermont congressman Jim Carroll is not the only person angry at Republican colleague Mary Morrissey for pouring water into his canvas tote bag (a.k.a. a Vermont briefcase) over a period of five months. Like most Republicans, Morrissey denied her involvement until presented with footage Carroll captured on a hidden camera and she was forced to take responsibility. Morrissey apologized to Carroll on Monday, but now she needs to apologize to me.Reading about Morrissey’s act of workplace revenge stirred up memories that I had long suppressed. Back in 1988, I moved to Los Angeles to take my first writing job in television. The show’s co-producer (who doesn’t want to be named because as this story proves, people are nuts) was incredibly kind and generous and invited me to couch surf at her one-bedroom apartment in West Hollywood.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDemocratic Vermont congressman Jim Carroll is not the only person angry at Republican colleague Mary Morrissey for pouring water into his canvas tote bag (a.k.a. a Vermont briefcase) over a period of five months. Like most Republicans, Morrissey denied her involvement until presented with footage Carroll captured on a hidden camera and she was forced to take responsibility. Morrissey apologized to Carroll on Monday, but now she needs to apologize to me.Reading about Morrissey’s act of workplace revenge stirred up memories that I had long suppressed. Back in 1988, I moved to Los Angeles to take my first writing job in television. The show’s co-producer (who doesn’t want to be named because as this story proves, people are nuts) was incredibly kind and generous and invited me to couch surf at her one-bedroom apartment in West Hollywood.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Public DomainLast week, a jury ruled that Donald Trump was guilty of 34 felony counts. This week, the GOP presidential candidate is vetting running mates to make sure they won’t embarrass the ticket.Sources told multiple news outlets that Trump’s campaign requested additional information from seven contenders, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Tim Scott, Byron Donalds, Elise Stefanik, Ben Carson and Doug Burgum.The reports did not detail what questions are being asked but, based on Trump’s last VP selection process, it’s the superficial that matters most. Back then, Trump made that clear when he described Mike Pence over and over as “straight out of central casting.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyDear Penthouse: I never thought it would happen to me but I went to a golf tournament and had sex with a porn star…The testimony offered by Stormy Daniels at Donald Trump’s hush-money trial on Tuesday would have been more shocking if it hadn’t sounded like a classic Penthouse male fantasy from the 1980s.As Daniels told it, Trump left his post-partum wife and newborn son to attend a 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe with more than links on his mind. Through his bodyguard, Trump invited the enticing Daniels to dine with him at his actual penthouse suite. He greeted her in slinky pajamas. Suave move. Except Daniels, who is actually there for dinner, mocked them. Trump changed into regular clothes and, for a moment, it looked like the fantasy might never become a reality.Read more at The Daily Beast.