On Saturday, June 12, former President Donald Trump released a statement that, in tone, will have his opponents rolling their eyes. “I told you so,” they will say, because Donald Trump told them so and managed to get in a bit of signature Trump braggadocio along the way. Under the legend “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” this is what he wrote: “Have you noticed that they are now admitting I was right about everything they lied about before the election?” “They” of course are the eye-rollers, not only those the former President delighted in calling dispensers of “fake news” but also their clients, toadies, and enablers. Not for the first time, I wonder whether they all are readers of “Pride and Prejudice.” I am thinking of that passage towards the end of the novel where Lizzy confesses her love for Mr. Darcy …
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