5: Donald Trump aide says he has no intention of trying to jail Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump has no intention of trying to jail Hillary Clinton, a senior aide said on Tuesday, reversing a pledge that frequently roused supporters to chant “Lock her up!” and led critics to compare him to leaders of authoritarian regimes.
The president-elect “doesn’t wish to pursue” criminal investigations into the former secretary of state over her use of a private email server or conflicts of interest involving the Clinton Foundation, Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC’s Morning Joe programme.
“I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal then perhaps that’s a good thing,” Conway added.
The Guardian
4: How Old People Are Skewing British Politics
After the EU referendum, it was widely reported that turnout among young people was extremely low – around 36 percent. That turned out to be bullshit. In fact, more young people voted in the EU Referendum – 64 percent of registered 18 to 24-year-olds, rising to 65 percent among 25 to 39-year-olds – than in any general election in recent memory.
However, that’s not the whole story, because older people also turned out in higher numbers than initially reported. Among 55 to 64-year-olds, turnout was 74 percent, and for the 65+ group it was an astonishing 90 percent. It was these high turnouts that handed the vote to Leave. If young people had turned out in those numbers, Remain would have won in a landslide.
Vice News
3: Donald Trump vows to quit TPP for ‘fair trade deals’
US President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to quit a proposed 12-country free-trade bloc – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – and renegotiate other trade deals upon entering the White House.
Trump called the TPP “a potential disaster” for the US in a social media video message published late on Monday, pledging instead to negotiate “fair bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores”.
Although the TPP terms were settled more than a year ago, the pact was never taken up by US Republican leaders in Congress, in part because of anti-free-trade rhetoric in the presidential campaign.
Trump’s comments would appear to snuff out any hopes among other TPP countries that the pact championed by President Barack Obama could be revived under the new administration.
Aljazeera
2: Media Stars Agree to Off-the-Record Meeting With Trump, Break Agreement, Whine About Mistreatment
A GLITTERING ARRAY of media stars and network executives made pilgrimage on Monday to the 25th floor of Trump Tower to meet with the president-elect. They all agreed that the discussions would be “off the record”: meaning they would conceal from their viewers what they discussed. Shortly after the meeting ended, several of the stars violated the agreement they made, running to the New York Post and David Remnick of the New Yorker to whine about Trump’s mean behavior. “The participants all shook Trump’s hand at the start of the session and congratulated him,” Remnick reported, “but things went south from there.” It’s difficult to identify the shabbiest and sorriest aspect of this spectacle, but let’s nonetheless try, as it sheds important light on our nation’s beloved media corps and their posture heading into a Trump presidency.
To begin with, why would journalistic organizations agree to keep their meeting with Donald Trump off the record? If you’re a journalist, what is the point of speaking with a powerful politician if you agree in advance that it’s all going to be kept secret? Do they not care what appearance this creates: the most powerful media organizations meeting high atop Trump Tower with the country’s most powerful political official, with everyone agreeing to keep it all a big secret from the public? Whether or not it actually is collusion, whether or not it actually is subservient ring-kissing in exchange for access, it certainly appears to be that. As the Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone put it: “By agreeing to such conditions, journalists expected to deliver the news to the public must withhold details of a newsworthy meeting with the president-elect.”
The Intercept
1: “Heil Victory!” Alt-Right Groups Emboldened by Trump’s Election & Chief Strategist Steve Bannon
A video leaked Monday from a self-proclaimed “alt-right” conference that took place over the weekend in Washington, D.C., shows hundreds gathering to celebrate Donald Trump’s victory and raising their arms in the traditional Nazi salute and saying “Heil victory!” Leaders of the alt-right movement have been emboldened since Trump’s election, particularly since he named Steve Bannon to become his chief strategist after first being his campaign manager. Bannon is the former head of the right-wing news outlet Breitbart Media. We speak with Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot professor of Holocaust studies at Emory University, who says Bannon’s appointment is “the most depressing of almost anything I’ve heard thus far.” Lipstadt is also the subject of a feature film now in theaters called “Denial,” which is based on a court case in which she was sued by a leading Holocaust denier.
Democracy Now
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