‘The Single Greatest Mistake of My Father’s Administration’ * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft

Disgraced Hunter Biden declared that what he considers the “single greatest mistake” of his father’s administration was Attorney General Merrick Garland’s failure to move more aggressively against conservatives following January 6.

The comments came during Hunter Biden’s appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast hosted by Jennifer Welch, where he launched into an extended attack on Garland while arguing the Biden Justice Department should have opened sweeping investigations much earlier.

“The single greatest mistake of my father’s administration was the leadership of Merrick Garland,” Hunter Biden said.

Hunter acknowledged that, ultimately, responsibility rested with then-President Joe Biden because he appointed Garland.

“The buck has to stop with my dad. He was the president. He chose him,” Hunter said.

He tried to thread the needle by claiming the “buck stops with my dad” because Joe Biden chose Garland, but quickly pivoted to the usual “church and state” separation nonsense at the DOJ, while simultaneously complaining that Garland didn’t go hard enough after conservatives from the very beginning.

Hunter then launched into a full-throated defense of the J6 “insurrection” hoax, claiming it was a “concerted and planned effort” that began before the 2020 election, and bizarrely citing alleged Steve Bannon tapes from Mother Jones talking to Miles Guo the day before the election about the laptop and challenging the election results.

Hunter Biden:
The single greatest mistake of my father’s administration was the leadership of Merrick Garland.

Jennifer Welch:
I completely agree. I write about this in my book, Not Today, Fascist.

Hunter Biden:
The reason that we are in the situation that we’re in right now can almost—well, by the way, the buck has to stop with my dad. He was the president. He chose him. Now, once he chose him, he played by the, you know, a higher standard than the Marquess of Queensberry Rules. He played by the Constitution and the tradition that the president will never, you know, particularly since Nixon, involve themselves in any decision-making as it relates to anything at the Department of Justice.

So I guarantee you there was a division between church and state there. Um, but if Merrick Garland had started a completely 100% legitimate investigation rather than thinking, like, “Let’s not fan the flames,” like, what the—did you not watch what I watched? Did you not see these people storming the Capitol of the United States of America, beating cops and running congressmen and senators literally out of the building? You didn’t see that? You didn’t see a president and know that it was a concerted and planned effort on their part, beginning all the way back from the day before the election, when they knew they were going to—I mean, go back and listen.

Jennifer Welch:
They wanted to kill Mike Pence.

Hunter Biden:
Go back and listen to Steve Bannon talking to Miles Guo on the day before the election, saying exactly what they were going to do. There’s tapes. Mother Jones has these tapes that were leaked. You got to listen to the tape where he says, “This is what we’re going to do. First, we started with the laptop, and we, um, uh, you know, we took, I think, uh, license with the pictures, you know, because they did this whole thing where I was a pedophile in China and all this stuff that they put out there. And the next thing we’re going to do is we’re just going to say that the election was not legitimate. And we’re just going to say it over and over and over again.”

So we knew that it was a planned conspiracy that had a disparate number of actors all working inside and outside of the White House, at all levers of government.

Jennifer Welch:
It’s a layup.

Hunter Biden:
And he doesn’t do anything. He doesn’t do anything. The only way that we got to any prosecution of him as it related to January 6th is we had to wait for Congress to go through an entire series of hearings, and it lays it all out then, right? And we still don’t go after him. We don’t end up going after him and get Jack Smith until the documents case. And then they bring the documents case in Florida rather than in D.C. I mean, I don’t get it. I mean, I absolutely don’t get it.

WATCH:

Hunter Biden: “The single greatest mistake of my father’s administration was the leadership of Merrick Garland. Did you not see these people storming the Capitol? You didn’t see a president and know that there was a concerted and planned effort? He doesn’t do anything. We don’t… pic.twitter.com/AkpCRusQUv

— Reggie B. (@reggiebblue) July 18, 2026

The hypocrisy is staggering.

Hunter Biden is complaining that Merrick Garland was too soft on conservatives. Let that sink in.

Under Garland’s DOJ:

• Over 1,500 January 6th defendants were charged, many for non-violent offenses like “parading” or walking through open doors after police waved people in. Many remain political prisoners years later.
• Pro-life Christians praying outside abortion clinics were aggressively targeted with the FACE Act — several of those weaponized prosecutors were finally fired earlier this year.
• Parents at school boards were labeled potential domestic terrorists.
• Donald Trump was hit with multiple indictments by Garland-appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith.
• The 2020 BLM/Antifa riots — which caused billions in damage, killed dozens, and saw police stations burned — were largely excused or ignored.

Yet Hunter has the audacity to claim Garland didn’t prosecute enough conservatives and that the J6 response was too slow and too restrained.

He even gripes that the documents case against Trump was brought in Florida instead of DC. That’s because that’s where the documents were, at Mar-a-Lago. The lawfare was obvious to everyone except the Biden family bubble.

The Biden administration and Merrick Garland’s DOJ did exactly what Hunter wanted in many ways: they used the machinery of justice as a political weapon against conservatives, Trump supporters, and political opponents. They just didn’t go far enough for Hunter’s liking.