Rep. James Comer (R-KY) believes Attorney General Pam Bondi should work to put members of the Biden family behind bars, Breitbart reported. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman said that he lacks prosecutorial powers that the Department of Justice could use.
Comer made these remarks on the "Alex Marlow Show" podcast on Wednesday. He told the Breitbart editor-in-chief of his wish to bring former President Joe Biden and his allegedly corrupt family members to justice.
"I can’t prosecute. If I could prosecute, there would be Biden family members in prison now. There would be deep state actors in prison now. I can’t prosecute. I can only investigate. But Pam Bondi can prosecute, the Department of Justice can prosecute. So, we want to work with them," Comer said.
Comer has been beating the drum against the Biden family and urged President Donald Trump's Justice Department to dig into the outgoing president's family members. In particular, he wants James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, to answer for allegedly lying to Congress.
In a letter to Bondi on Jan. 17, 2025, Comer urged her to prosecute James Biden, according to the committee's news release. "On December 1, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued a written statement announcing ‘A Full and Unconditional Pardon’ for his son, Robert Hunter Biden," Comer wrote.
He claimed James Biden was "Hunter Biden’s main accomplice in his influence peddling schemes (aside from Joe Biden himself)" and that he was alleged to have "misled Congress regarding Joe Biden’s participation in his family’s influence peddling and deserving of prosecution under federal law." The matter was referred for prosecution by three Congressional committees.
However, Joe Biden's administration refused to act. "Though President Biden’s saccharine (and wholly ironic) rantings of political persecution and weaponized prosecution of Hunter Biden are specious, they are inapplicable to the non-prosecution of his brother, James Biden, who has lied to the United States Congress and has faced no accountability to date," Comer continued.
"I write to encourage the Department under your leadership to hold James Biden accountable for lying to Congress to protect his brother, the soon-to-be-former President Biden. No one should be above the law, regardless of his last name," Comer wrote.
The Associated Press reported that in the final moments of Joe Biden's presidency, he preemptively pardoned his siblings and their spouses as Trump was giving his speech. This unprecedented move included James Biden, and Trump pointed out its absurdity.
"Did you know that Biden, while I was making my speech, pardoned his whole family? The brother — the whole deal was pardoned. Can you imagine that?" Trump said.
However, Reuters noted, this presidential pardon is not absolute and may work against Hunter Biden in the end. The Justice Department and the House of Representatives may still investigate the shady business dealings of the Biden family.
Moreover, Hunter Biden could be forced to testify. If the pardon grants him immunity, he wouldn't be able to plead the Fifth Amendment since nothing he said would be considered incriminating under the pardon.
There is enough evidence that the Biden family's dealings were amiss, to say the least, to continue with this investigation. Comer is right that this should proceed, and Bondi is more than capable of getting the job done.
