The early report of Trump putting the Big Media in a “firing squad” got the alternative media celebrating. We decided to wait for a while. It turns out that the celebration is only short-lived.

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he won’t pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because it would divide the nation — and she’s already “suffered greatly.”

• http://nypost.com/2016/11/23/why-trump-isnt-pursuing-charges-against-hillary-clinton/

We must remind ourselves that the sufferings of the Libyans continue to this day. Letting the principal author of the murder of Muammar Gadhafi, and the total destruction of Libya, to go scot free, is not just an affront to our collective intelligence, but a blatant disregard of the most fundamental essence of what is right and wrong.
Not only that, even the WTC 9/11 veteran Giuliani underscores that what Trump is doing is just in line with the established tradition of American politics.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a former US attorney who had called throughout the campaign for Clinton to be prosecuted, said Trump’s shift was fine with him.
“Look, there’s a tradition in American politics that after you win an election, you sort of put things behind you,” he told reporters at Trump Tower. “And if that’s the decision he reached, that’s perfectly consistent with sort of a historical pattern of . . . you say a lot of things, even some bad things might happen, and then you can  sort of put it behind you in order to unite the nation.

• http://nypost.com/2016/11/23/why-trump-isnt-pursuing-charges-against-hillary-clinton/”

Still think this is a Clinton “counter-coup?
Politics in the Matrix: Trump won’t prosecute Hillary Clinton
By Jon Rappoport
“If Donald Trump can help her [Hillary] heal, then perhaps that’s a good thing to do.” —Kellyanne Conway, former Trump campaign manager
Donald Trump achieved two great things in his presidential campaign: he stopped Hillary Clinton from occupying the White House, and he ran against the media by attacking them mercilessly.
Everything else is up for grabs. We will see.
Already, he has made some “errors.” The appointment of Mike Pompeo as CIA director is a bad move. Pompeo, as a congressman, introduced the Dark Act, which now prevents the states from requiring GMO labels on food. And he favors the death sentence for Edward Snowden.
Multiple media outlets are reporting that Trump will not attempt to prosecute Hillary Clinton. This is on the level of lowering the window shades for a vampire as dawn breaks. Hillary was certainly guilty in the email case, and the Clinton Foundation is a pay-for-play money laundering operation of global proportions—a private and parallel State Department, in which cash is the only standard for “diplomacy.” And these charges are mere low-hanging fruit on the Clinton crime family tree.
Pursuing justice is supposed to be a Trump hallmark.
Politics in the Matrix is a tap dance and a shuffle. Deals and compromises are made all the way along the line. Washington and its media allies suck their very life juices from those deals. Like some fungus, they thrive in the dark every-day corruption of This traded for That. In many ways, Trump exclaimed he was above the game. The deals he was going to make would all be on the side of benefiting America—so he has a price to pay for asserting he was most definitely a different character on the political scene.
That unbridled assertion was what drove huge numbers of people to show up at his rallies all over the country. They wanted an outsider who had a serious ax to grind with Washington and the media. They wanted him to be angry and outraged—because they were, too. They didn’t want a great healer, because justice comes before healing.
Many of them had felt the effects of Globalism and its grotesque trade treaties. They were out of work, and he was going to bring back jobs. But that wasn’t their only motivation. They knew their jobs had been stolen by anti-American elites, and they wanted the sword of justice to fall on those elites. They knew Hillary Clinton was an arch-Globalist.
For these millions of Trump supporters, forgiving and forgetting and moving on isn’t presidential. It smells bad. They were never part of the glazed-over New Age crowd, and they aren’t now. The cheese-glob “coming together” isn’t in their lexicon. They don’t view anger as a character defect or a “compensatory” response that traces back into early childhood. They want bad people to pay for their crimes.
Hillary Clinton would be at the top of their list. Helping her heal is a sick joke. They want her in prison where she belongs. They know her constant vapid calls for “national unity” during the campaign were a straight-out con, a cover for her lust for power.
They see nothing redeeming about her. It’s simple: she fights the good and embraces evil. Therefore, she should be punished.
Doing so would set an example and a course for the Trump administration: we don’t back away, we don’t back down. We aren’t separating “campaign talk” from presidential action. We’re not trying to make that phony distinction.
If Trump prosecuted Hillary to the full extent of the law, then of course the owls would come out hooting: he’s vengeful; he can’t let go; he’s mean; he’s spiteful; he’s a cruel sadist; this goes beyond any civilized sense of propriety befitting a real leader.
Yes? And? So?
So what?
Is Trump the same man now that he was when he was campaigning?
Even asking that question seems naïve, because of course we know all politicians rearrange themselves after they win a victory. But Trump portrayed himself as very, very different. He stood on that difference. He celebrated it. He reveled in it. He took great pleasure in it.
Now, he has to pay the price.
His supporters don’t want to hear some garbled nonsense about how prosecuting Hillary would create a giant distraction from the job of leading the country. Trump’s whole campaign was a distraction from politics as usual. That’s what gave him strength.
Prosecuting Hillary Clinton now would be counter-intuitive and outrageous, and therefore it would be the most Trumpian thing Trump could do.
It would give him more support from his millions of people.
And it would be right and correct and it would deliver justice where justice has been needed for a very long time.
And when the whole host of sordid details about Hillary’s crimes came spilling out into the light, people who pride themselves on being in the camp of the “beautiful and virtuous” would realize who they have been defending.
It would provide a valuable lesson, and the price of admittance to that show would trump the decades of waiting America has endured in the case of The People vs. Hillary Clinton.
This case has now been canceled.
Donald Trump achieved two great things in his presidential campaign: he stopped Hillary Clinton from occupying the White House, and he ran against the media by attacking them mercilessly. Failing to prosecute Hillary is not a great thing. It is a very bad thing.
Coda: I sense there may be a little side-op here. Trump’s special advisor and inside man, innovator, media-attacker, and Breitbart editor, Steve Bannon, most certainly opposes the move to let Hillary off the hook. Is this a signal that Steve is out of the loop, or out altogether? He’s the most dangerous threat to the big media oligarchy.
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/trump-wont-prosecute-hillary-politics-in-the-matrix/
If Trump can ignore the long list of Clintonite crimes,

• Clinton Foundation: A Sacred Cow for Defiling Entire US Gov’t with Capital Crimes
• Clinton’s Leaked eMails Confirm Libya Plunder by Killing Qaddafi
• Clinton Foundation is False Philanthropy | In-depth Analysis

… how about those bigger crimes of the Wall Street financial terrorists?
Which swamp is he going to drain exactly?
What happen to the highly advertised “pursuit of justice that will surely happen” during Trump’s term?
Is Donald Trump just holding his horses until he reaches the White House come January, or is he really letting the Clintons off the hook for good, contrary to his campaign rhetoric?