House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer dropped some serious hints Wednesday that his panel will issue criminal referrals against members of President Biden’s family as a result of the impeachment inquiry into the commander in chief.

Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” he expected the referrals to be voted on “within weeks.”

“I don’t think there’s ever been in the history of Congress, criminal referrals to an immediate President of the United States and their family,” he said.

“So we wanted to give the Bidens every opportunity. This is a fair and balanced investigation.”

Since Sept. 12 of last year, Comer has led the impeachment probe by the Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees.

Multiple House Republicans have signaled their opposition to impeaching President Biden based on the information that they currently possess, so criminal referrals sent by the full House to the Department of Justice against the first family could serve as an off-ramp.

However, Comer was adamant that “impeachment is still on the table.”

Earlier this week, Biden formally turned down Comer’s invite to testify before the panel, stressing that the evidence Republicans have unearthed proved he “has done nothing wrong.”

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“I’m not surprised that Joe Biden doesn’t want to come and set the record straight to the American people,” Comer chided. “He wants to continue to hide behind the liberal mainstream media that are going to continue to run cover and indoctrinate the American people that there’s no evidence.”

Biden’s defenders have accused Comer of playing partisan politics with his impeachment inquiry, but the Oversight chief insisted his team conducted the investigation “by the book.”

First son Hunter Biden also turned down an invite for public testimony last month after sitting for a closed-door deposition in February.

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“If this Department of Justice won’t do their job and hold people accountable for wrongdoing, then hopefully the next Department of Justice will,” Comer told host Maria Bartiromo, hours before clashing with Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) during a chaotic hearing on China.

During a chaotic Oversight Committee hearing on China, Comer clashed with Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) over his findings.

“I’ll tell you what Joe Biden did. He was a senator of the United States, then he wrote a book and he said he made the most money he ever made in his life, millions of dollars on his book,” Raskin contended.

“Ukraine, Kazakstan, Romania, China, Russia — that’s why they paid the Biden family money,” Comer countered.

“Somebody needs therapy here, but it’s no one on our side of the aisle,” Raskin shot back after a member denied that the president took money from those countries.

The Kentucky Republican told FBN that his team is expecting additional material that had been subpoenaed by the end of this week and that “this thing [will] start to wrap up very soon after that.”

One frustration that Comer is feeling is the House Republican “drama” that has consumed Washington while Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stares down a GOP revolt over aid to Ukraine.

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“The drama has been a challenge. I’m not going to lie,” he admitted. “It’s very disappointing we have people in our conference that … have made a difficult situation even more difficult.”

“But at the end of the day, we finally provided the American people with the truth.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. President Biden and his allies have denied that he influenced public policy to benefit his family’s business partners or otherwise acted improperly to enrich himself.