House Oversight Chairman James Comer spent 2025 building criminal cases against Democrats.
He handed the evidence to Trump's Department of Justice.
And James Comer just admitted one brutal truth about Pam Bondi that has Trump supporters fuming.
Comer sounds off on stalled criminal referrals
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer dropped a bombshell during an interview with journalist Catherine Herridge that Republicans didn't want to hear.
After holding 54 hearings, passing 38 bills, and conducting 26 transcribed interviews throughout 2025, the committee sent criminal referrals to Attorney General Pam Bondi's Department of Justice.
Those referrals are gathering dust.
"But at the end of the day, I've been disappointed in some of the criminal referrals that are collecting dust on Attorney General [Pam] Bondi's desk," Comer told Herridge.
He made clear his frustration extends to the White House.
"I've made that very clear with the White House," Comer continued. "I'm hopeful that we'll see some action soon on the criminal referrals that range everywhere from Dr. [Anthony] Fauci to the [former President Joe] Biden family influence peddling scheme."
Herridge showed Comer a chart that's gone viral on social media.
The chart lists major scandals Republicans investigated including COVID origins, Russia collusion, Benghazi, and Biden family corruption with one thing in common — zero arrests connected to any of them.
"Is that what accountability looks like?" Herridge asked pointedly.
Comer could only point to resignations, not prosecutions.
The Oversight Committee forced out the Washington, D.C. police chief, Secret Service leadership, and various agency heads.
But the people who Republicans say committed actual crimes are walking free while Trump's Department of Justice sits on the evidence.
Criminal referrals piling up with no action
Comer's committee sent criminal referrals on multiple high-profile targets.
Anthony Fauci stands accused of lying to Congress about funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Senator Rand Paul renewed his request for a Fauci investigation in July 2025, questioning whether Biden's autopen pardon of Fauci is even legitimate.
Hunter Biden and James Biden face perjury referrals for lying about the Biden family influence peddling operation.
Andrew Cuomo got referred for prosecution in April 2025 after allegedly lying about his role in covering up New York's nursing home death toll during COVID.
The committee found evidence Cuomo personally reviewed and edited a supposedly independent state health department report that whitewashed his disastrous nursing home policies.
Those referrals joined previous ones for Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood, and others that went nowhere under the Biden Justice Department.
Republicans hoped Trump's DOJ would be different.
So far, it's not.
Biden autopen scandal shows DOJ inaction
The most glaring example of DOJ paralysis involves Biden's illegal use of an autopen to sign pardons and executive orders.
The Oversight Committee released a bombshell report proving Biden let White House staff use the autopen to sign clemency documents without his review or approval.
Trump declared those documents "null, void, and of no further force or effect" after the committee's findings.
But someone at the Justice Department needs to take it to court to make that declaration stick.
"I don't believe the paperwork's ever been done. And you're still going to have to go to court for that," Comer explained. "But our congressional investigation will serve as basis to uphold the declaration of those pardons and executive orders being declared null and void."
He added that DOJ inaction on this issue is "very frustrating."
The autopen pardons potentially invalidated clemency for Fauci and other Biden allies who might otherwise avoid accountability.
But Bondi's Justice Department hasn't moved to challenge them in court.
Grand jury secrecy becomes convenient excuse
A DOJ spokesperson responded to Comer's criticism with the standard Washington dodge.
"We appreciate Chairman Comer's leadership and oversight. Unfortunately, longstanding federal law Rule 6(e) governing grand jury secrecy prohibits the Department from discussing the existence or details of pending criminal investigations," the spokesperson wrote.
That excuse only works if investigations actually exist.
Conservatives have heard this line before from prosecutors who slow-walk cases until statutes of limitations expire.
Comer maintains optimism despite the lack of results.
"Well, I would like to see more. I'm an optimistic person. And I believe that they're working very hard. And I know the president has a lot of confidence in Pam Bondi," Comer responded when Herridge asked if DOJ has done enough.
"So hopefully they will be more successful in prosecuting some of these people that we've provided congressional evidence that have broken the law."
That "hopefully" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Trump supporters didn't elect a Republican President and give him a Republican Congress to hear "hopefully" about prosecuting the Deep State actors who weaponized government against conservatives.
They elected Trump to drain the swamp and deliver justice.
Bondi has been busy investigating what she calls an "ongoing criminal conspiracy" of lawfare under Obama and Biden.
She's deployed federal prosecutors to Minnesota to investigate welfare fraud.
But the big fish who targeted Trump and lied to Congress keep swimming free while referrals collect dust on her desk.
The clock is ticking and Trump's momentum won't last forever.
Sources:
- Catherine Herridge, "James Comer Says Pam Bondi Letting Criminal Referrals Collect Dust Despite House Oversight Probes," Daily Caller, January 9, 2026.
- NBC News, "GOP-led House panel renews referral of Andrew Cuomo for prosecution over Covid testimony," April 22, 2025.
- Senator Rand Paul, Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci, July 14, 2025.
- House Oversight Committee, "Comer Refers Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to Trump DOJ for Criminal Prosecution," April 22, 2025.
