Americans keep hearing that accountability is coming, but judging by the scoreboard, it never actually arrives. Once again, the Department of Justice is being dragged into the spotlight for what looks like a stunning lack of follow-through, this time under Attorney General Pam Bondi. And House Republicans are not hiding their frustration.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is now openly blasting the DOJ after veteran investigative journalist Catherine Herridge highlighted a viral chart circulating on X. The chart is simple, brutal, and effective. It lists some of the biggest political scandals of the last decade and shows the same result for all of them, zero arrests.
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Chairman James Comer just VENTED frustration at Trump's DOJ:
"I've been disappointed in some of the criminal referrals collecting dust on AG Bondi's desk… THERE HAVEN'T BEEN ENOUGH ARRESTS."pic.twitter.com/RdHFhcKXI5
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 9, 2026
Russia collusion. Benghazi. Election fraud allegations. The Biden autopen scandal. Years of hearings, leaks, wall-to-wall media coverage, and endless moralizing, all ending the same way. Nobody charged. Nobody perp-walked. Nobody held accountable.
During an interview on Herridge’s show Straight to the Point, she confronted Comer with the chart and asked the obvious question. Is this what accountability looks like in Washington now? Comer did not sugarcoat the answer. He said the biggest complaint among Republicans on the Oversight Committee is the complete lack of arrests, even after extensive investigations and sworn testimony.
Comer zeroed in on the Biden autopen scandal, which Oversight investigators say could invalidate a sweeping set of pardons and executive orders issued during the final year of Joe Biden’s presidency. After the committee released its findings, President Trump declared that documents signed via autopen were null and void. That was the political declaration. The legal step, however, has yet to happen.
According to Comer, the Department of Justice has not taken the case to court. The paperwork has not been filed. The process has stalled. In other words, the ball is still sitting on the tee.
When Herridge pressed him on whether anyone at DOJ had acted at all, Comer’s answer was blunt. “It appears that way.” Asked if that was frustrating, he did not hesitate. “Very frustrating.”
And this is where the public anger comes from. Republicans see aggressive, rapid-fire prosecutions when it comes to President Trump and conservatives, but endless delays, reviews, and silence when the investigation points inward at Democrats or the permanent bureaucracy. The perception is not subtle, and the viral chart captures it in one glance.
The DOJ under Bondi inherited a credibility problem, and moments like this only make it worse. Congressional investigations can lay the groundwork, but they cannot prosecute. That responsibility belongs to the Department of Justice. So far, on the autopen issue and a long list of other scandals, DOJ has chosen not to act.
For now, the score remains unchanged. Years of scandals. Mountains of documents. Countless hearings. And the same result every time. Zero arrests.
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