Comer Promises Epstein Criminal Referrals by Christmas. Sure He Does.

James Comer wants you to know he’s real close. Criminal referrals coming. Names heading to prosecutors. By Christmas, he says. Just like Santa.

The House Oversight chair told NOTUS he “fully expects” to send referrals to the Justice Department before his term as committee chair ends in December. “We’re going to do everything we can to hold anyone accountable who’s still alive,” Comer said. Read that again. “Who’s still alive.” Funny how the ones who could’ve talked all ended up dead, and the ones left standing have lawyers who could buy a small country.

Here’s what the committee has actually done since August 2025. Depositions with William Barr. A transcribed chat with Alexander Acosta. Subpoenas flying out to the Clintons, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, Jeff Sessions, Alberto Gonzales. Sixty-five thousand pages of documents posted online. That sounds impressive until you remember the DOJ compiled over six million records on Epstein’s trafficking empire and somehow managed exactly one conviction. The committee is working through a fraction of what the government already had sitting in a file cabinet while the clock ran out.

And how did Comer run this investigation? Voluntary interviews. Not under oath. Not on camera. Behind closed doors. Rep. Yassamin Ansari said it plainly: every one of these should be under oath, in public, videotaped. But that’s not how the swamp works. The swamp handles things quietly, among friends, with handshakes and transcripts nobody reads.

Now ask yourself who benefits from the timing. Comer’s term as chair ends in December. He’s expected to run for Congress again, possibly against Thomas Massie, the guy who actually pushed the Epstein Files Transparency Act through. So Comer needs to show the voters something before he loses the gavel. A criminal referral is a letter. It’s a suggestion. It carries the force of a strongly worded op-ed. The real question is what the DOJ does with it, and Attorney General Todd Blanche has already shown you the answer. He moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a low-security prison. He refused to follow leads survivors handed him in a meeting. The Trump administration shut down its Epstein investigation with one conviction and called it a day.

Meanwhile, Rep. Robert Garcia is sitting in the wings with staff already drafting subpoenas for Melania and Donald Trump, waiting to see if voters hand Democrats the majority in January. Summer Lee wants perjury charges against Pam Bondi and Epstein’s lawyer Darren Indyke. So now both parties are making promises about accountability that should have been delivered years ago, and each side is using Epstein as a campaign prop while the survivors are still waiting.

Sixty-five thousand pages. A year of de