Attorney General William Barr said Monday there’s no reason for the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

Barr said at a press conference, “I think to the extent that there’s an investigation, I think that it’s being handled responsibly and professionally currently within the department and to this point, I have not seen a reason to appoint a special counsel and I have no plan to do so before I leave.”

Asked by another reporter if he was concerned that the Biden administration would end the Hunter Biden probe, Barr said: “I’m hoping that the next administration handles that matter responsibly.”

Hunter Biden, 50, confirmed this month he’s under federal investigation for possible tax fraud. His lucrative overseas business relationships drew scrutiny during the presidential campaign.

The Associated Press reports that the probe of Hunter Biden “involves multiple U.S. attorney offices and FBI field offices.”

A special counsel cannot be fired without a finding of misconduct, insulating the office from political pressure. The attorney general has the power to appoint a special counsel.

President Trump’s allies want a special counsel reviewing the Hunter Biden case so that a Joe Biden-nominated attorney general and Biden-nominated US attorneys can’t quash the investigation.

Documents from a Hunter Biden hard drive that were published in October by The Post appear to link the president-elect to his son’s business relationships in China and Ukraine.

Barr’s last day on the job is Dec. 23. He will be replaced by Deputy Attorney General Jeffery Rosen, who will serve as acting attorney general.

Rosen told Reuters last week he would continue “to do things on the merits and to do things on the basis of the law and the facts. That’s how I thought about it from the beginning and that’s how I’ll think about it through the end.”

Many details about Hunter Biden’s overseas work remain murky. For example, a September report from Senate Republicans said Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, the widow of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov. Senators said they did not know the purpose of the payment. Joe Biden denied during the first presidential debate that Hunter Biden received the funds, saying it was “not true.”

Barr in October secretly made Connecticut US Attorney John Durham a special counsel so that he can complete his review of FBI misconduct preceding special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, which found no evidence that Trump conspired with Russia in 2016, as alleged by Democrats.