In Mueller probe literary news, the Daily Beast released the email that Trump's lawyer wrote to the Daily Beast calling for an end to the Mueller probe.

As part of his initial email, Dowd included the text below, which is an annotated version of a line from a well-known 20th-century play:

What’s that smell in this room[Bureau}? Didn’t you notice it, Brick [Jim]? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room[Bureau}?... There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity[corruption]... You can smell it. It smells like death. Tennessee Williams- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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