That Hunter Biden. He continues to demonstrate his inability to be self-aware or to ‘read a room.’
Biden went on that left-wing lunatic and boxed wine expert Jennifer Welch’s podcast on Monday to complain that former Attorney General Merrick Garland was his father’s greatest mistake as president. The reason? Garland didn’t move fast enough to prosecute Donald Trump after January 6th.
Let that sentence marinate for a moment. The man who received the most sweeping presidential pardon in modern American history — covering years of conduct, for crimes not yet charged, from investigations not yet concluded — is now publicly complaining that the Department of Justice didn’t do enough to weaponize itself against the sitting president’s political opponent.
The lack of self-awareness required to hold both of those positions simultaneously is genuinely staggering.
NEW: Hunter Biden is calling the appointment of Merrick Garland as attorney general the "greatest mistake" his father made in office.
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Hunter’s argument, delivered with the practiced grievance of someone who has never fully internalized the concept of accountability, is that Garland was too cautious. Too slow. Too deferential. That the DOJ under Biden failed to deliver the political justice that the left demanded — and that this timidity is what ultimately doomed Joe Biden’s legacy and handed Trump a second term.
What Hunter won’t say, because saying it out loud would require the kind of honesty he has never once demonstrated, is the obvious alternative reading of everything he just described: maybe the DOJ didn’t move faster on Trump because the evidence for the charges Democrats wanted didn’t support the speed they demanded. Maybe Jack Smith’s cases collapsed not because of Garland’s timidity but because they were built on legal theories that couldn’t survive appellate scrutiny. Maybe the reason “this is never going to f***ing go away” — Joe Biden’s own words about his son’s prosecution, from Bob Woodward’s book “War” — is because Hunter Biden actually did the things he was charged with, and no amount of institutional protection was going to make that fact disappear permanently.
Joe Biden himself expressed the same regret privately. According to Woodward, he told an associate he “should never have picked Garland” — not because Garland failed to go after Trump, but because Garland’s appointment of a special counsel led directly to Hunter’s federal prosecution. Father and son are now publicly blaming the same man for opposite failures.
The irony compounds further when you examine what Garland actually did during his tenure. He sicced the FBI on parents attending school board meetings. He treated traditional Catholics as potential domestic extremists. He targeted pro-life advocates with FACE Act prosecutions while ignoring attacks on pregnancy centers. He slow-walked the Hunter Biden investigation for years before appointing David Weiss as special counsel only after a plea deal collapsed. He was not, by any honest accounting, a restrained institutionalist. He was an activist AG who weaponized the department selectively — and still wasn’t radical enough for the people now complaining about him.
Hunter Biden received a blanket pardon. Then he got on a podcast to demand the DOJ had been more aggressive against his father’s political rival.
The lack of self-awareness would be impressive if it weren’t so perfectly on brand.
