Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served in President-elect Trump’s first administration, is calling on state and federal prosecutors to dismiss pending cases against Trump before he returns to power.

Barr told Fox News Digital that voters were well aware of all the allegations against Trump when they elected him to a second term on Tuesday, and that it is in the best interest of the country for prosecutors to listen to them.

“The American people have pronounced their judgment on President Trump and decisively elected him to lead the country for the next four years,” Barr said. “They did so with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors across the country, and I believe Attorney General Garland and prosecutors should respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now.”

Barr claimed that the legal theories in some cases had already been “greatly weakened by a series of court rulings,” and that the cases “have now been extensively aired and rejected by the American people.”

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President-elect Trump has yet to be sentenced in the New York criminal case in which he was convicted earlier this year, and former Attorney General Bill Barr says that case — and all other pending cases against Trump — should be dismissed before he takes office. (Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images)

Once Trump takes office in January, Barr emphasized, prosecutors will not be able to pursue the cases during his term. A Trump-appointed attorney general could put an end to federal cases brought by special counsel Jack Smith; one in Washington, D.C., for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and another in Florida, based on allegations of withholding classified documents after his first term.

The Florida case was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on technical grounds related to Smith’s appointment, and the Washington case was undermined by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that presidents have immunity from prosecution for certain official acts.

“We have been granted immunity in the Supreme Court,” Trump told Hugh Hewitt last month. ‘It’s so easy. I would fire (Smith) in two seconds. He will be one of the first things addressed.”

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However, Trump would be powerless to stop state cases against him in New York and Georgia. One involves a pending state criminal case in Georgia based on alleged efforts to overturn that state’s results in the 2020 election. He was also convicted in a New York criminal case of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. He has a sentencing hearing set for later this month.

Barr said local prosecutors and judges should step away from the spectacle of prosecuting a soon-to-be-sitting president.

“Further maneuvering on these matters in the coming weeks would serve no legitimate purpose and would only distract the country and the new government from the task at hand,” he said.

“The public interest now requires the country to unite and focus on the challenges we face at home and abroad. Attorney General Garland and all prosecutors must do the right thing and move the country forward by dismissing the cases,” he added.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served in the first Trump administration, is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland and other prosecutors to dismiss the cases against Trump before he takes office again in January. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

This also applies to the criminal case in New York in which Trump was already found guilty but has not yet received a sentence. Barr called on prosecutors to dismiss the case, even though there had already been a conviction.

“This case is rife with legal abuses and errors,” Barr said. “If it were still being litigated, it would eventually be overturned, but we shouldn’t tolerate that kind of distraction. And I think it’s the right thing to do if prosecutors dismiss the case.”

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When asked if this is likely to happen, Barr’s response was blunt:

“We’ll see what they think about democracy.”