William Barr doesn't want to continue serving as the United States Attorney General in the incoming administration when President-elect Joe Biden takes office in Jan. Keeping in line with that, the 70-year-old attorney is planning to hand in resignation before the president leaves office. 

Barr's plan to leave his post before Jan. 20 was confirmed to CNN by a source familiar with the matter. The source went on to reveal that Barr is not happy with the president, noting that he isn't someone who takes bullying or turns the other cheek. However, the source said he hadn't made a final decision. 

Barr's intention was first reported by The New York Times. Earlier this week, CNN reported that the president was not happy with Barr, who said the Justice Department did not find any evidence of widespread election fraud in an interview. Following this remark, Trump met with Barr, and the two men had a lengthy meeting inside the West Wing.

 Trump even declined to say whether he still has confidence in Barr, showing that the attorney general was no longer in the president's good books. Responding to a reporter in the Oval Office, Trump said he would be able to tell whether he has confidence in Barr after several weeks, insisting that they all should be looking at the fraud. 

While Trump is considering to fire Barr, several people have advised him against it. Barr out of semi-retirement last year to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was fired by Trump from the top job at the Justice Department. Moreover, Trump removed Sessions from the post in 2018, after Sessions came out of matters related to the 2016 campaign. 

Barr has been accused of politicizing the Justice Department to protect Trump by dropping federal charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and getting involved in the sentencing for the president's friend Roger Stone. Trump refuses to concede the 2020 presidential, claiming the election was stolen from him when more Americans voted for Democrat Joe Biden. 

The Times reported that Barr had planned to leave the department long before last week after he had completed all that he planned to do at the Justice Department. Referring to allegations against voting software used in the recently concluded election, Barr told the Associated Press that there had been one assertion that would be systemic fraud, noting that would be the claim that machines were rigged to change the election results.