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Following the Monday resignation of his Attorney General William Barr, President Donald Trump is reportedly looking into getting a special prosecutor to investigate the business dealings of Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden, as well as another special counsel to investigate Trump's repeated and baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump will either pressure Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to appoint the prosecutors or fire Rosen and find another person to appoint them, Trump aides anonymously told the Associated Press, for fear of retaliation. The aides say that Trump has also asked his personal attorneys whether he as president can personally appoint a special prosecutor.

Democrats worry that a special counsel—which wouldn't be able to be easily dismissed by Biden's attorney general without possible backlash and political consequences—will serve primarily to burden and damage the new administration while also serving as payback for Democratic support of the FBI's investigation into Trump's ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump has long claimed that the FBI's Russia investigation was nothing more than a political "witch hunt" meant to delegitimize his presidency. Trump has also claimed that it was illegal for the Obama administration to investigate him in the first place, claiming there was no basis for it.