Dallas Pastor applauds Trump's decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton
Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas applauded President-elect Donald Trump for his decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for keeping e-mails containing classified information on her home server.
Trump said on Tuesday that he no longer intends to pursue an investigation against Clinton despite threatening her with prosecution during the presidential campaign.
"I don't want to hurt the Clintons, I really don't," Trump said in an interview with The New York Times.
"She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways, and I am not looking to hurt them at all. The campaign was vicious," he continued.
In an interview with Fox Business, Jeffress stressed that the government has a responsibility to execute justice but he believes that Trump made the right decision not to prosecute Clinton.
"At the end, voters are going to judge President-elect Trump by three criteria: has he made them safer, freer, and richer. And going after Clinton is not going to accomplish any of those goals," said the pastor.
Jeffress stated that Washington could be "paralyzed" for four years if Trump decides to investigate the former secretary of state.
When Fox Business host Stuart Varney asked for advice on how to avoid fights during Thanksgiving dinner, Jeffress told Trump supporters not to gloat about the president-elect's victory.
"Instead of gloating about his win, point out the positive things to those doubters we have already seen: his inclusiveness, his measured tone," he said.
The pastor advised those who did not support Trump to pray that "he would follow God's leadership in his life."
Some of Trump's supporters were not happy about the decision to forgive Clinton. Conservatives branded the move as a "betrayal" and a "broken promise."
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said that it would be a mistake for the president-elect not to appoint a special counsel to investigate Clinton's State Department e-mails.
The FBI had already cleared the former secretary of state twice but Fitton argued that the investigations were flawed.
Fitton's organization has acquired access to thousands of pages of the e-mails through lawsuits and is pushing through with its case in court even after Clinton's defeat, according to The New York Times.