Try to think back, if you can, to the transition period of the Biden-Harris administration. I&#8217;m talking about the personnel decisions — and particularly the key Cabinet appointments — that the incoming administration made in the weeks after the media called the race for Joe Biden, back at the end of 2020.
Those personnel decisions were treated as non-stories. They came and went, and the media didn’t talk much about them. There wasn&#8217;t a lot of outrage or debate. Pete Buttigieg, for example, became the Transportation Secretary because he likes trains and was vaguely interested in airplanes. And he’s gay. Those were his qualifications. So they put him in charge of the Department of Transportation, which has a budget of tens of billions of dollars and oversees the nation&#8217;s railways and airports. Why not? It made sense to Democrats at the time. What&#8217;s the worst that could happen? A train carrying toxic chemicals might derail somewhere in Ohio? What are the odds of that?
And then there was the nomination of Lloyd Austin to lead the Defense Department. That was really inspiring. You see, Lloyd Austin was serving on the board of Raytheon, one of the biggest defense contractors in the world. Raytheon was paying him a lot of money. And then, without much fanfare, the Biden-Harris administration appointed Lloyd Austin to run the Pentagon. What could go wrong? Surely Lloyd Austin wouldn&#8217;t try to enrich his former colleagues in the defense industry by, say, sending billions of dollars worth of weaponry to a tiny, corrupt country in Eastern Europe. That would be unthinkable.
And then there was the appointment of someone using the name Rachel Levine — a biological male originally named Richard who decided in middle age to start wearing a dress and rebrand himself as Rachel. It made perfect sense, we were told, for a man deeply confused about the basic realities of human biology to oversee the nation&#8217;s healthcare system. Sure, he might pressure hospitals to castrate and sterilize as many children as possible. He might pose for some uncomfortable photographs with Sam Brinton, the cross-dressing nuclear waste expert and kleptomaniac who’d been terrorizing airport baggage claims all across the Eastern seaboard for years, before also being appointed for a role in the Biden Administration. But that&#8217;s the cost of human progress, the transition team told us.
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I&#8217;m going through these appointments to make a couple of points. The first point is that all of these appointments — and many others like them, including the appointment of an open-borders advocate to run the Department of Homeland Security — were grotesque. None of them should have been allowed to go through. But they did, and the country paid the predictable consequences. Biden appointed more cross dressers that we’d been used to seeing in government at that point, but otherwise his picks were exactly what we’ve come to expect. A bunch of corrupt and useless bureaucrats, who went on to do what corrupt and useless bureaucrats always do.
Thankfully, it’s clear that Donald Trump is not going to follow that typical strategy. Donald Trump&#8217;s incoming administration is already unlike any other in American history. This is a transition team that&#8217;s making a concerted effort to select competent, independent Cabinet officials — people who aren&#8217;t self-interested cronies, or morons who are selected on the basis of identity politics. He’s picking people who are actually competent and who might actually advance the agenda that the American people voted for. Imagine that.
Let&#8217;s start with one of the selections that was announced last night. Donald Trump revealed that Pete Hegseth, a Bronze Star recipient who served nearly two decades in the military — including in Iraq and Afghanistan — will be nominated as Secretary of Defense. 
Hegseth is most recognizable at the moment as a Fox News host, where he often advocates on behalf of veterans. He&#8217;s also used his platform to outline changes that, in his view, need to be made to the military immediately. Watch:
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This is all common-sense stuff. The overwhelming majority of countries don&#8217;t allow women in combat roles, for obvious reasons. And no, the military shouldn&#8217;t be teaching its soldiers about &#8220;white rage,&#8221; nor should the Pentagon be focused on recruiting girl bosses or &#8220;diverse&#8221; applicants. That strategy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-military-is-collapsing-under-the-weight-of-its-own-wokeness">isn&#8217;t working</a>. The military is now regularly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-military-is-collapsing-under-the-weight-of-its-own-wokeness">missing</a> its recruitment goals primarily because they&#8217;ve gone out of their way to alienate white men for political reasons. As a result, our military is much smaller than China&#8217;s. Morale is terrible. We&#8217;re constantly losing war games, as Hegseth pointed out. And making matters worse, our military leaders are clearly inept, as evidenced by the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
With this track record, the absolute last person you&#8217;d want to pick for the job of Defense Secretary is another Lloyd Austin. The Lloyd Austins of the world are the ones who created the very situation that Hegseth was talking about in the clip. That’s why you need someone who&#8217;s motivated and equipped to make some radical changes. You want someone who knows what it&#8217;s like to be a soldier in a warzone, and who hasn&#8217;t been corrupted by his connections to the military-industrial complex. In short, you want someone like Pete Hegseth.
As you&#8217;d expect, Democrats don&#8217;t see it that way. They lost their minds when Trump briefly paused the flow of military weapons to Ukraine, and now they&#8217;re losing their minds because Pete Hegseth might spurn the defense industry, too. Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts, was particularly enraged. She was sneering last night, along with a lot of her colleagues. She <a href="https://x.com/SenWarren/status/1856502912551158049">wrote</a>: &#8220;A Fox &amp; Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected.&#8221;
So right away, the woman who pretended to be an Indian tries to dismiss Hegseth as a &#8220;weekend co-host.&#8221; She completely ignores his military service, his ideas, and his advocacy for veterans. We&#8217;re supposed to believe that, if Hegseth had served on the board of Raytheon, he would somehow be vastly more equipped for the job. We apparently want Defense Secretaries who are bureaucrats or defense contractors. Because that has obviously worked out so well over the past three decades.
And in the context of a second Trump administration, the criticisms of Pete Hegseth make even less sense. Recall that, under the first Trump administration, the Pentagon actively sabotaged Trump&#8217;s policy objectives. Our envoy to Syria has admitted this. It&#8217;s one of the most incredible admissions ever printed, but it never got much attention. The envoy stated that officials in the first Trump administration <a href="https://theohiostar.com/news/special-representative-for-syria-james-jeffrey-we-were-always-playing-shell-games-to-hide-the-number-of-u-s-troops-in-syria/ohstarstaff/2020/11/16/">were</a>, &#8220;always playing shell games&#8221; in order to hide the actual number of U.S. troops in Syria from Trump.” That&#8217;s an actual quote — &#8220;shell games.&#8221; In other words, they were lying to the commander in chief. Trump wanted troops to leave Syria, and they told him the troops were gone. And it wasn&#8217;t true.
People should&#8217;ve been put on trial for that. But it just faded from memory. Given that background, you can understand why — this time around — Trump wants someone he can actually depend upon. He wants to work with people he can trust. That&#8217;s the single most important quality that a Cabinet pick can have. And that&#8217;s very obvious to Trump now, after what he experienced in his first term.
But Democrats are still going to resist this nomination anyway, for reasons that they can&#8217;t even articulate. They just know that it would be a disaster for them if an outsider took control of the Defense Department. 
That&#8217;s why one of CNN&#8217;s hosts tried to push back on Scott Jennings&#8217; arguments for Hegseth last night. Watch:
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For starters, it&#8217;s pretty amusing — as Jennings points out — for television pundits to attack Hegseth for being a &#8220;TV host,&#8221; when they&#8217;re all television personalities too. Either being on television makes you an idiot, or it doesn&#8217;t. And if it does, then all of these people should quit their jobs now, before CNN closes down and fires them anyway (which appears more likely to happen with each passing day).
And then the anchor says that civilians give the orders in the military, which is obviously true. But it&#8217;s the Pentagon — which is also run by civilians — that has the job of carrying out those orders. And as Jennings pointed out, the Pentagon has repeatedly failed to do its job. They were wrong about the spy balloon and what it was doing. They were wrong about the logistics of the Afghanistan pullout, which resulted in the deaths of American servicemembers. They couldn&#8217;t even build a pier properly. So what exactly is the argument for keeping these kinds of people in control of the Defense Department? How could we possibly do any worse than they&#8217;ve been doing?
That&#8217;s a point that Tom Homan, the incoming border czar, just made on Fox News. He was asked whether he was worried about having the title of &#8220;border czar,&#8221; given that Kamala Harris has done everything she can to run away from that title. Here&#8217;s how Homan responded:
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&#8220;I&#8217;m going to look like a genius. Because when you follow up failure you can&#8217;t help but succeed.&#8221; 
That pretty much sums up the entire transition so far.
We&#8217;re so used to administration officials who lie to us — who try to use emotional blackmail and manipulation — that it&#8217;s pretty much impossible to be disappointed by the incoming Trump administration at this point. Just by demonstrating that they don&#8217;t care about the media&#8217;s manipulation and false narratives, they&#8217;re already well ahead of their predecessors.
It&#8217;s also clear that the federal bureaucracy, which functioned to undermine Trump at every possible opportunity, isn&#8217;t going to exist in the same form the second time around. Last night Trump officially announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be running the Department of Government Efficiency, (DOGE). Trump said the goal of this new department will be to &#8220;dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.&#8221; He said they&#8217;ll be done within two years — what he called the &#8220;perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence.&#8221;
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The task of &#8220;dismantling government bureaucracy&#8221; should be the number-one focus of Trump&#8217;s second term. And Elon Musk is just the guy to do it. He showed up to Twitter and immediately axed 80% of the staff. Everyone in the media said it would destroy the company. They said the whole site would crash and be forgotten. And yet, here we are. Two years later, the place is running better than ever. The problem in the federal government is like Twitter, multiplied by a million.
Unlike every other company on the planet, the federal government doesn&#8217;t undergo layoffs. It just grows and grows, year after year. It siphons more and more money from taxpayers, without any accountability. These bureaucrats call themselves &#8220;public servants,&#8221; but really the public is serving them. We&#8217;re the ones who go to work every day to pay their salaries. And what exactly do they do for us? Do we really need these people to spend tens of thousands of dollars on &#8220;gender equity&#8221; in places like Honduras? Do we need them to develop new bat coronaviruses in secret labs in Wuhan? Do we need them to use our money to subsidize some of the most useless college degrees in existence? Do we need them to conduct fraudulent criminal trials of the leading presidential candidate? Do we need them to issue insane new regulations banning the sale of gas-powered vehicles?
Of course we don&#8217;t. We&#8217;ve never needed any of that.
What we have needed, for a long time now, is for the government to get out of the way of human progress. They need to stop spending and printing money as if it&#8217;s endless. They need to do what every American in the private sector has to do, which is to justify their salaries. They need to explain how exactly they&#8217;re serving the public, instead of the other way around.
This is a reckoning that would&#8217;ve been unthinkable if Kamala Harris had won this election. We&#8217;d be dealing with another parade of useless, BIPOC-transgender-whatever appointees who exist only to check boxes. Now things are different. And giving Musk and Ramaswamy the hacksaw with a directive to go to town on the federal bureaucracy means that maybe, for the first time ever, some real and substantial cuts will actually be made. No Republican president in modern times has ever actually done anything to cut the size of government. Much less have they taken any steps to gut the federal bureaucracy and get rid of all the useless people and their useless departments and programs. In fact, Republicans have only contributed to the problem.
There is good reason to think that this time will be different. Trump has picked the two right guys for the job. Which is why the federal bureaucrats are panicking, and their panic will only become more unhinged in the days ahead.
For everyone else — for people who actually earn their living — it&#8217;s a time to celebrate something that&#8217;s never happened before in modern American history. The behemoth federal bureaucracy is about to get what it deserves. What’s been coming to it for decades.
If Trump fulfills his promises and simply lets the people he’s hiring do the jobs they’ve been hired to do, it will mean ultimately that America becomes a freer, safer, more prosperous place. If this is the &#8220;fascism&#8221; they warned us about, it can&#8217;t come soon enough.

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The Media Panics Over Trump’s Administration Picks

The Media Panics Over Trump's Administration Picks

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Sam <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sam-brinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brinton</a>, the disgraced Biden administration official who was arrested for stealing women’s luggage at multiple U.S. airports, snagged a cushy plea deal last week.
The former Department of Energy employee <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/crossdressing-luggage-snatcher-and-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-gets-sweetheart-plea-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will serve</a> no jail time after he pled guilty to misdemeanor petty larceny, downgraded from his felony grand larceny charges that carried a sentence of up to 20 years, the Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/crossdressing-luggage-snatcher-and-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-gets-sweetheart-plea-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Back in 2022, Brinton, 37, who uses they/them pronouns, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-non-binary-biden-official-helped-create-school-policy-to-hide-childrens-gender-changes-from-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> as deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy and charged with stealing a woman’s Vera Bradley suitcase from the Minneapolis airport and another woman’s suitcase from the Las Vegas airport. The suitcases and their contents had a combined value of more than $9,000, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-biden-official-sam-brintons-mug-shot-released-bail-set-15000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police</a> and court <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-non-binary-nuclear-official-charged-stealing-womans-luggage-airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>.
Then, in May of last year, Brinton was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/non-binary-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-arrested-again-fugitive-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> a third time for stealing a Tanzanian fashion designer&#8217;s luggage with her custom designs, which he proceeded to wear himself at high-profile public events. That theft occurred at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
In all three cases, Brinton has escaped jail time.
The plea deal in the designer clothes case was quietly announced last week by prosecutors in Arlington General District Court.
Brinton is now required to undergo mental health treatment, write a letter of apology, and perform 50 hours of community service helping the elderly, per the terms of his plea deal.
The Tanzanian designer, Asya Khamsin, went public with her allegations against Brinton last year after seeing photographs in news articles of Brinton wearing her custom designer clothes.
“I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-at-home-of-sam-brinton-non-binary-former-biden-official-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “He wore my clothes, which was stolen.”
She said she had flown to Washington, D.C., for an event where her clothing was set to be on display, but when her designs went missing, she was not able to show them.
At one point, the fashion magazine Vanity Fair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vanity-fair-published-fashion-feature-on-sam-brinton-showcased-allegedly-stolen-dress?utm_campaign=news&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=na_feed_dailywire&amp;cid=news&amp;mid=&amp;xid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> an article praising Brinton&#8217;s style, including some of Khamsin&#8217;s designs he was wearing.
Khamsin also sued Brinton and reached a settlement this week. In it, Brinton agreed to pay her an unknown amount of money and wrote her an apology letter.
&#8220;Mr. Brinton has apologized to Asya Khamsin, and Asya Khamsin has forgiven Mr. Brinton,&#8221; Khamsin&#8217;s attorney said. &#8220;Asya Khamsin has decided not to publish Mr. Brinton’s letter of apology, as she considers the letter to be quite personal, sensitive, sincere, and heartfelt.&#8221;
A follow-up hearing scheduled for June of next year will examine Brinton&#8217;s progress.
Brinton initially attracted attention for being one of the federal government’s first “non-binary” officials.
Before his stint in the Biden administration, Brinton <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sam-brinton-helped-craft-model-school-policy-keeping-parents-dark-kids-gender-change?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked</a> for The Trevor Project, where he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-non-binary-biden-official-helped-create-school-policy-to-hide-childrens-gender-changes-from-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helped</a> create a model school district <a href="https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Model_School_Policy_Booklet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> that says schools should hide suicidal students’ sexual orientation and gender identity from their parents unless the student wants their parents to know. Several states have adopted this policy.

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Sam Brinton, Dress-Wearing Ex-Biden Official Who Stole Women’s Luggage, Gets Cushy Plea Deal

Sam Brinton, Dress-Wearing Ex-Biden Official Who Stole Women's Luggage Gets Cushy Plea Deal

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Police said they found women&#8217;s designer clothes allegedly stolen by former Biden official Sam Brinton while executing a search warrant at his home in May.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department said Tuesday that law enforcement found and returned the clothes to their owner, Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin, who accused Brinton of wearing her designs in public. Khamsin reported her bag containing the clothing articles missing at Ronald Reagan National Airport in 2018.
&#8220;The MWAA Police Department can confirm we returned the victim’s property and police retained photos of the evidence for prosecution,&#8221; MWAA spokesperson Crystal Nosal <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-ex-biden-official-sam-brintons-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News in a statement.
&#8220;The case is still under adjudication and we cannot release more detailed information,&#8221; the police spokesperson added.
In May, MWAA police officers executed a search warrant relating to the clothing case at Brinton&#8217;s Maryland home.
Brinton, a disgraced &#8220;non-binary&#8221; former Biden administration nuclear energy official, has been arrested multiple times for stealing women’s luggage at airports.
The 35-year-old, who uses they/them pronouns, attracted attention for being one of the federal government’s first &#8220;non-binary&#8221; officials, but he was fired in December from the Office of Nuclear Energy at the Department of Energy.
Brinton was also charged with stealing a woman’s Vera Bradley suitcase from a Minneapolis Airport in September last year and another woman’s suitcase from a Las Vegas airport in July last year. Those suitcases and their contents had a combined value of more than $9,000, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-biden-official-sam-brintons-mug-shot-released-bail-set-15000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police</a> and court <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-non-binary-nuclear-official-charged-stealing-womans-luggage-airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>.
Brinton escaped jail time in both of the previous luggage theft cases.
In the Minneapolis case, Brinton was <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/fmr-doe-official-who-took-luggage-from-msp-enters-diversion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> to undergo a mental health evaluation, write a letter of apology to the victim, return the stolen property, and perform three days of community service. In the Las Vegas case, Brinton <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/fmr-doe-official-who-took-luggage-from-msp-enters-diversion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled</a> no contest and was given a 180-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay $3,670 in restitution.
Brinton was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/non-binary-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-arrested-again-fugitive-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> a third time on May 17, the same day police searched his home, in connection with the designer clothes case. He was charged with felony grand larceny. The preliminary hearing in that case has been delayed until December.
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Khamsin, the designer, went public with her allegations against Brinton earlier this year, saying she saw photographs in news articles of Brinton wearing her custom designer clothes.
&#8220;I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018,&#8221; Khamsin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-ex-biden-official-sam-brintons-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News in February. &#8220;He wore my clothes, which was stolen.&#8221;
Khamsin said she had flown to Washington, D.C., for an event where her clothing was set to be on display, but when her designs went missing, she was not able to show them. She filed reports with the police and Delta Air Lines, but they were not immediately able to recover her bag.
However, when she saw the photographs of Brinton wearing her designs, Khamsin filed a police report in Houston, where she lives with her husband. Houston police <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/houston-police-refer-investigation-ex-biden-staffer-sam-brinton-alleged-airport-luggage-theft-fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they referred the case to the FBI.
Khamsin filed a civil lawsuit against Brinton on Friday.

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Police Find Female Designer’s Stolen Clothes At Home Of Sam Brinton, ‘Non-Binary’ Former Biden Official: Report

Police Find Female Designer's Stolen Clothes At Home Of Sam Brinton, 'Non-Binary' Former Biden Official: Report

Former “non-binary” Biden Energy Department official Sam Brinton rolled off with a woman’s suitcase from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas last year while on a taxpayer-funded trip, according to a federal watchdog group.
Brinton, who President Joe Biden tapped to serve as the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy, was fired six months later amid allegations of stealing luggage and women’s clothing from at least three different airports.
But during one of Brinton’s luggage heists, the federal watchdog Functional Government Initiative (FGI) report provided to <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/17/non-binary-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-was-on-secret-taxpayer-funded-trip-at-time-of-luggage-theft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> found that he was in Vegas on business representing the Energy Department when airport surveillance captured images of him swiping a woman’s suitcase.
“Not only did Sam Brinton commit a crime, the illegal shopping spree was funded by taxpayers,” Pete McGinnis, FGI’s director of communications, told The Post. “The pattern of petty theft shows that Brinton never should’ve been hired and given a security clearance in the first place.”
According to the report, Brinton’s business trip occurred from July 6 through July 9, 2022. It included a “meeting and site visit to DOE Las Vegas Site.” The four-day trip cost taxpayers $1,951.50, records show.
The documentation also revealed that Brinton stayed at the Hilton Grand Vacations Club located on the Las Vegas Strip.
Authorities initially charged Brinton with a felony based on the belief he stole $3,670 worth of items. However, the former Biden official agreed to pay the victim more than $3,500 in restitution and received a suspended 180-day jail sentence under the assumption Brinton would obey the law.
Brinton pleaded “no contest” to the misdemeanor theft.
Brinton, who has dressed in drag and boasted online about his puppy role-play fetish, first came under fire in December 2022 for allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage in Minneapolis.
Authorities charged Brinton with stealing luggage at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, where he allegedly removed a tag from a navy blue Vera Bradley suitcase bag, dropped it into his handbag, and “then left the area at a quick pace” on September 16, 2022, according to a criminal complaint.
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And earlier this year, authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-biden-non-binary-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-to-be-placed-in-mens-jail-over-luggage-theft-charges-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> Brinton at a house in Rockville, Maryland, as a “fugitive from justice” for allegedly stealing luggage belonging to Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin.
Khamsin previously appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in March, saying that her luggage had been stolen from Reagan National Airport in 2018 on the way to a fashion show, causing catastrophe because she could not show her designs.
Brinton was later pictured wearing one of her one-of-a-kind designs that had been in the suitcase, she said.
Authorities later revealed that despite Brinton’s “non-binary” identifier, he would be placed in a men’s jail in Maryland before being released on bond in June.

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Have you ever looked at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a>, and thought, &#8220;Where does the president find these people?” Well, apparently he finds them in the streets of American cities mocking the Roman Catholic Church.
As if the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/priest-doubts-vin-scully-would-be-a-fan-of-dodgers-embracing-drag-queen-nuns-troupe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; decision</a> to invite the deviant drag group known as the &#8220;Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence&#8221; can&#8217;t get any weirder, it turns out that the Biden administration&#8217;s “non-binary” baggage bandit, Sam Brinton, used to be a part of the organization as its D.C.-based leader.
Brinton, the former Department of Energy nuclear official known for having a certain proclivity for female clothing, is currently busy with several legal cases regarding the theft of women&#8217;s luggage from airports. So he might not know it, but his former posse of twisted sisters has been a top news item all week.
First, the Dodgers decided to invite this sacrilegious group to &#8220;Pride Night&#8221; in June. Then, the ball club rescinded that invitation following Christian outrage. However, the Dodgers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dodgers-re-invite-queer-and-trans-nuns-troupe-with-an-apology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">re-invited</a> the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to the game because they raise money for charity or something — and by charity, we mean groups that advance bodily mutilation. These are grown men who don makeup, pervert the cross, and dress up as nuns whose motto is &#8220;<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/dodgers-apologize-drag-nuns-sisters-perpetual-indulgence-1235498144/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Go and sin some more</a>.&#8221;
In short, it is a bunch of filth, but the Dodgers think it best to honor these men. On Wednesday, one Twitter user flagged that Brinton was a &#8220;sister&#8221; himself.
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An added layer to the <a href="https://twitter.com/dodger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dodger</a> fiasco. See the guy on the bottom right? Look familiar? Yep, it’s Sam Brinton; disgraced DOE official under the Biden admin. Also known as “Sister Ray Dee O&#39;Active” in the Order of Perpetual Indulgence.
SMH. <a href="https://t.co/mCgGnovnHx">pic.twitter.com/mCgGnovnHx</a>
&mdash; RachelReneeReeves (@RachelReneeRee1) <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelReneeRee1/status/1661495978480791553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Brinton is down in the lower right-hand corner. His drag queen&#8217;s name was &#8220;Sister Ray Dee O&#8217;Active&#8221; — because he&#8217;s a nuke guy, remember.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-hired-former-leader-anti-catholic-group-at-center-la-dodgers-pride-night-controversy">Fox News</a>, Brinton was the D.C. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence&#8217;s principal officer from 2016 to 2018. Brinton was arrested last week by Montgomery County, Maryland, authorities as a &#8220;fugitive of justice&#8221; for allegedly stealing. He has pled guilty to stealing luggage in the past. He will be placed in a men’s jail in Maryland before authorities transport him next week to Virginia over those theft charges.
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The bizarro world Matt Damon lookalike had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-biden-non-binary-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-to-be-placed-in-mens-jail-over-luggage-theft-charges-report?0=utm_source=ground.news&amp;1=utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously tapped</a> by President Joe Biden to serve as the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy. He was fired six months after joining the Biden administration amid allegations of stealing luggage and women’s clothing from airports.
Catholic leaders have condemned the drag group which openly sexualizes Jesus Christ, degrades Mary Mother of God, and disparages other key components of the Roman Catholic faith. On Thursday, prominent Bishop Robert Barron declared that the group was an &#8220;anti-Catholic hate group&#8221; and that Dodger baseball should be boycotted for its decision.
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Friends, it’s hard to imagine anything more offensive than some of the behavior of the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” which I think can only be described as an anti-Catholic hate group. <a href="https://t.co/VLZP28Soab">pic.twitter.com/VLZP28Soab</a>
&mdash; Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) <a href="https://twitter.com/BishopBarron/status/1661766243974610949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and we shouldn&#8217;t tolerate it,&#8221; Barron said.
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I’m a big baseball fan. I’ve even thrown out the first pitch at a Dodgers game. But I’d encourage my friends in LA to boycott the Dodgers.
Let’s not just pray, but make our voices heard in defense of our Catholic faith.
&mdash; Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) <a href="https://twitter.com/BishopBarron/status/1661766246465937409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Readers, of course, should remember that Biden and his allies have billed him as a &#8220;devout&#8221; Catholic.
This latest story is a reminder that just when you think this world can&#8217;t get any weirder, it does.
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Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Baggage Bandit Was Part Of ‘Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence’ Group Invited By Dodgers

Biden's ‘Non-Binary’ Baggage Bandit Was Part Of ‘Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence’ Group Invited By Dodgers

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Former Biden Energy Department official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sam-brinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Brinton</a>, who identifies as &#8220;non-binary,&#8221; will be placed in a men&#8217;s jail in Maryland before authorities transport him to Virginia over suitcase theft charges.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/non-binary-sam-brinton-will-be-placed-in-mens-jail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> that authorities would hold Brinton, 35, at the county men&#8217;s jail with the general male population next week per the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation policy, which states that officers process and house inmates based on their biological sex.
&#8220;Although MCDOCR does not consider anatomical changes brought about by hormonal therapy to be changes that constitute a change of anatomical sex, the classification of an arrestee/inmate will depend on whether the arrestee/inmate has male or female genitalia, whether they present a management or security problem, and whether their health and safety can be ensured,&#8221; the policy reads, according to the Post. &#8220;Once an inmate is classified, they will be given a housing assignment based on that classification.&#8221;
Brinton, who President Joe Biden tapped to serve as the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy, was fired six months after joining the Biden administration amid allegations of stealing luggage and women&#8217;s clothing from airports.
Authorities arrested Brinton last week at a house in Rockville, Maryland, as a &#8220;fugitive from justice&#8221; for allegedly stealing luggage.
A witness neighbor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-biden-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-arrested-as-fugitive-from-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire that authorities escorted Brinton in handcuffs last week an hour after four unmarked police cars arrived at the house while his spouse, Kevin, was told he couldn&#8217;t leave.
Rob Yingling, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), said airport police &#8220;executed a search warrant May 17 in Montgomery County, Maryland, in connection with allegations of stolen property in luggage from Reagan National Airport that was brought to the department&#8217;s attention in February 2023.&#8221;
&#8220;With the assistance of Montgomery County Police, Samuel Otis Brinton, age 35, of Rockville, Maryland, was taken into custody Wednesday pending charges of Grand Larceny,&#8221; Yingling added.
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Brinton appeared before a judge on May 18 via closed-circuit television from the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit, where Judge Victor Del Pino declined to release him and ordered him extradited to Virginia.
“I will deny the request to turn himself in,&#8221; Del Pino said at a public hearing. &#8220;Virginia will pick him up. Good luck in Virginia, Mr. Brinton.”
The luggage in question belonged to Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin, who appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in March, saying that her luggage had been stolen from Reagan National Airport in 2018 on the way to a fashion show, causing catastrophe because she could not show her designs.
Brinton was later pictured wearing one of her one-of-a-kind designs that had been in the suitcase, she said.
Prior to the alleged theft of Khamsin&#8217;s luggage, Brinton pleaded &#8220;no contest&#8221; to a misdemeanor theft charge last month after authorities caught him on video allegedly stealing luggage at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
Authorities initially charged Brinton with a felony based on the belief he stole $3,670 worth of items. However, the former Biden official agreed to pay the victim more than $3,500 in restitution and received a suspended 180-day jail sentence under the assumption Brinton would obey the law.
Brinton was charged with stealing a woman&#8217;s suitcase last year from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, where he allegedly removed a luggage tag from a navy blue Vera Bradley suitcase bag, dropped it into his handbag, and &#8220;then left the area at a quick pace&#8221; on September 16, 2022, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gender-fluid-biden-admin-employee-charged-with-stealing-womans-luggage-at-minneapolis-airport-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a criminal complaint</a>.
Luke Rosiak contributed to this report.

Ex-Biden ‘Non-Binary’ Nuclear Official Sam Brinton To Be Placed In Men’s Jail Over Luggage Theft Charges: Report

Ex-Biden 'Non-Binary' Nuclear Official Sam Brinton To Be Placed In Men's Jail Over Luggage Theft Charges: Report

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Garrett O‘Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen told lawmakers that the FBI suspended their security clearances and froze their pay over questions about the Bureau’s January 6 investigations. O’Boyle and Allen are still employed by the bureau, but they’ve been without pay and barred from working for about a year. They say they’ve been forced to rely on charity and their retirement savings to stay afloat. Here’s O’Boyle:  
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POWERFUL testimony from FBI Whistleblower Garret O’Boyle on how the agency rendered his family HOMELESS for speaking up against the FBI’s efforts to weaponize the bureau against Americans:
“In weaponized fashion, the FBI allowed me to accept orders to a position halfway across… <a href="https://t.co/BTZm3z1oZN">pic.twitter.com/BTZm3z1oZN</a>
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In news reported first by The Daily Wire today, former Biden nuclear energy official, Sam Brinton, was arrested Wednesday as a fugitive of justice. This comes months after Brinton was fired amid allegations of stealing luggage and women’s clothing from airports.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Roziak learned exclusively that former Biden administration nuclear official, Sam Brinton, was arrested last night at his home in Rockville, Maryland. A neighbor told Roziak that four unmarked police cars went to his house at about 10:00 PM and pulled him out. On Thursday, a  judge ordered Brinton extradited to Arlington, Virginia to face charges of grand larceny related to alleged luggage theft out of Dulles Airport, in connection with those fugitive from justice charges.
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Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old man, accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death, back in April, pleaded not guilty Thursday. Momeni’s mother and sister were present in the San Francisco courtroom when the plea was entered. Momeni’s attorney argued her client should be released on bail but the judge refused bail saying Momeni is a threat to the community.
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The law prohibits app stores from making TikTok available for download in the state. It comes as state lawmakers accused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> of breaching user security. 
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Thursday Afternoon Update: FBI Whistleblowers Testify, Ex-Biden Admin Nuclear Weirdo Arrested, Montana Bans TikTok

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ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND &#8212; Sam Brinton, the &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; activist tapped by Joe Biden for a key nuclear role before he was fired for stealing women&#8217;s clothes, was arrested again Wednesday night as a &#8220;fugitive from justice&#8221; for allegedly stealing luggage, The Daily Wire has learned.
A neighbor told The Daily Wire that &#8220;four unmarked police showed up last night, they would not let his spouse Kevin leave. After about an hour Sam Brinton was escorted out in handcuffs.&#8221;
Rob Yingling, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), said airport police &#8220;executed a search warrant May 17 in Montgomery County, Maryland, in connection with allegations of stolen property in luggage from Reagan National Airport that was brought to the department’s attention in February 2023. With the assistance of Montgomery County Police, Samuel Otis Brinton, age 35, of Rockville, Maryland, was taken into custody Wednesday pending charges of Grand Larceny.&#8221;
Montgomery County police spokeswoman Sheira Goff said &#8220;The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police are lead on this. Brinton was arrested at approximately 10 p.m. last night in their home.&#8221;
On Thursday afternoon, Brinton appeared before a judge via closed-circuit television from the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit, where Judge Victor Del Pino declined to release him and ordered him extradited to Virginia. Brinton did not have a lawyer or any supporters or press, other than The Daily Wire, at the hearing. A public defender spoke for him temporarily, despite his not being eligible for a public defender because of his income. He was wearing a blue jail jumpsuit and a mask.
&#8220;Mr. Brinton is a nuclear engineer, he is married,&#8221; the public defender said. &#8220;He works for GeoFission, a nuclear startup. He believes if he is released to turn himself in [to Virginia], he can keep his job&#8230; I believe the allegation is stolen luggage.&#8221;
Del Pino said &#8220;I will deny the request to turn himself in. Virginia will pick him up. Good luck in Virginia, Mr. Brinton.&#8221;
A court document lists Brinton&#8217;s sex as &#8220;X.&#8221; The bald-headed nuclear engineer stood out at Thursday&#8217;s bond hearing among the other defendants, which included many non-English speaking defendants and people charged with gun crimes and other violent offenses.
In March, a Tanzanian <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/fashion-designer-biden-official-sam-brinton-stole-clothes-what-need-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fashion designer</a> named Asia Odorous Khamsin appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to say that her luggage had been stolen from Reagan National Airport in 2018 on the way to a fashion show, causing catastrophe because she was unable to show her designs. Brinton was later pictured wearing one of her one-of-a-kind designs that had been in the suitcase, she said.
Brinton, a man who believes he is &#8220;nonbinary,&#8221; has repeatedly been arrested for allegedly stealing women&#8217;s clothes.
The former Biden official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-avoids-jail-time-after-plea-deal-in-luggage-theft-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded</a> &#8220;no contest&#8221; to misdemeanor theft last month after he was caught on video allegedly stealing luggage at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. Brinton was initially charged with a felony when police believed he allegedly stole $3,670 worth of items, but he agreed to pay the victim more than $3,500 in restitution and received a suspended 180-day jail sentence, which meant he would serve no time behind bars as long as he stayed out of trouble.
Last year, Brinton was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gender-fluid-biden-admin-employee-charged-with-stealing-womans-luggage-at-minneapolis-airport-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with stealing a woman&#8217;s suitcase from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Brinton allegedly removed a luggage tag from a navy blue Vera Bradley suitcase bag, dropped it into his handbag, and “then left the area at a quick pace” on September 16, 2022, according to a criminal complaint.

Ex-Biden Nuclear Official Sam Brinton Arrested As ‘Fugitive From Justice’ For Luggage Theft

Ex-Biden Nuke Official Sam Brinton Arrested As Fugitive From Justice For Luggage Theft

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Disgraced former Biden Energy Department official Samuel Brinton reportedly agreed in court this week to undergo a mental health evaluation as part of an adult diversion program in the felony baggage theft case that he faces in Minnesota.
Brinton was originally charged with felony theft in two separate cases late last year for allegedly stealing luggage from Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport and Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
FOX 9 reported that as part of the adult diversion program, Brinton is required to apologize to the victim, return any stolen property, and complete community service. The program could lead to the case against Brinton being dismissed altogether, the report <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/fmr-doe-official-who-took-luggage-from-msp-enters-diversion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Brinton reportedly flew into Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport with American Airlines from Washington, D.C., on September 16. According to the complaint, Brinton traveled without a checked bag, indicating he had no purpose to claim a bag after landing.
The complaint alleges Brinton left the airport in an Uber and checked into the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront hotel with the blue bag.
Brinton returned to MSP two days later, on September 18, and flew back to Washington, D.C., with the same bag.
Records and video surveillance showed the suitcase belonged to a female passenger who flew into the MSP on a Delta flight from New Orleans. According to a report, she notified law enforcement that her bag and the contents inside — valued at around $2,325 — had gone missing in the baggage claim area on the same day Brinton allegedly took the luggage.
Nearly three weeks later, the criminal complaint alleges, video surveillance footage from Dulles International Airport in Virginia captured Brinton returning from Europe with the bag on October 9.
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Authorities contacted Brinton that same day, asking if he “took anything that did not belong” to him.
“Not that I know of,” Brinton allegedly responded, but later admitted he took the bag.
“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have any clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag,” he told police, according to the complaint.
He allegedly called authorities two hours later and apologized for not being “completely honest,” adding he took the bag thinking it was his in a state of exhaustion. The complaint also alleges Brinton realized it wasn’t his bag after opening it up at the hotel, at which point he “got nervous” and “didn’t know what to do.”
It now appears as though he could have the felony charge in Minnesota dropped, which comes after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-avoids-jail-time-after-plea-deal-in-luggage-theft-case">pled</a> “no contest” last week after being charged in December for allegedly stealing luggage at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
Eight News Now reported that Brinton agreed to pay the victim more than $3,500 in restitution and received a suspended 180-day jail sentence, meaning that he will serve no time behind bars assuming he can stay out of trouble.

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Disgraced Ex-Biden Official Sam Brinton Could Avoid Jail In Second Felony Theft Case: Report

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Disgraced former Biden Energy Department official Samuel Brinton pleaded &#8220;no contest&#8221; this week after being caught on video allegedly stealing luggage at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
Eight News Now <a href="https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/former-energy-dept-official-who-stole-luggage-gets-plea-deal-in-las-vegas-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Brinton agreed to pay the victim more than $3,500 in restitution and received a suspended 180-day jail sentence, meaning that he will serve no time behind bars assuming he can stay out of trouble. An arrest warrant was issued for Brinton in December for grand larceny with a value between $1,200 and $5,000.
Brinton pleaded &#8220;no contest&#8221; to misdemeanor theft, which is categorized as an amount less than $1,200, after he was initially charged with a felony when police believed the amount was $3,670, the report said.
Investigators <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-disclose-how-they-caught-alleged-biden-admin-luggage-thief-sam-brinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that “a white male adult wearing a white T-shirt with a large rainbow colored atomic nuclear symbol design” was seen on security camera footage taking the woman’s bag before leaving the airport.
“Brinton demonstrated several signs of abnormal behavior while taking the victim’s luggage which are cues suspects typically give off when committing luggage theft,” investigators in Las Vegas wrote in their report. “Specifically, Brinton pulled the victim’s luggage from the carousel and examined the tag.”
“Then placing it back on the carousel, looking in all directions for anyone who might be watching, or might approach,” the report continued. “Pulling it back off the carousel and demonstrating the same behavior by looking around before walking away with it quickly. Brinton only having checked one piece of luggage, which Brinton had already claimed from the carousel, had no reason to be examining and taking any other pieces of luggage.”
Brinton, who caused a stir among Americans over his role in the federal government for dressing in drag and boasting online about his puppy role-play fetish, came under fire in November of last year for allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage in Minneapolis.
He reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-felony-arrest-warrant-issued-for-biden-official-sam-brinton-for-another-alleged-theft-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flew</a> into Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport with American Airlines just before 4:30 p.m. from Washington, D.C. According to the complaint, Brinton traveled without a checked bag, indicating he had no purpose to claim a bag after landing.
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The complaint alleges Brinton left the airport in an Uber and checked into the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront hotel with the blue bag.
Brinton returned to MSP two days later, on September 18, and flew back to Washington, D.C., with the same bag.
Records and video surveillance showed the suitcase belonged to a female passenger who flew into the MSP on a Delta flight from New Orleans. According to a report, she notified law enforcement that her bag and the contents inside — valued at around $2,325 — had gone missing in the baggage claim area on the same day Brinton allegedly took the luggage.
Nearly three weeks later, the criminal complaint alleges, video surveillance footage from Dulles International Airport in Virginia captured Brinton returning from Europe with the bag on October 9.
Authorities contacted Brinton that same day, asking if he “took anything that did not belong” to him.
“Not that I know of,” Brinton allegedly responded, but later admitted he took the bag.
“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have any clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag,” he told police, according to the complaint.
He allegedly called authorities two hours later and apologized for not being “completely honest,” adding he took the bag thinking it was his in a state of exhaustion. The complaint also alleges Brinton realized it wasn’t his bag after opening it up at the hotel, at which point he “got nervous” and “didn’t know what to do.”
By avoiding the felony charge in Las Vegas, Brinton dodged potentially having to serve up to 10 years in prison.
If <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-official-sam-brinton-out-of-a-job-after-multiple-alleged-luggage-thefts-at-airports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> on the felony charge he faces in Minnesota, he could face five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Disgraced Ex-Biden Official Sam Brinton Avoids Jail Time After Plea Deal In Luggage Theft Case

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Daily Wire podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> torched disgraced former Biden administration official Sam Brinton during his podcast on Thursday over the latest woman to come forward and claim that Brinton stole her luggage.
Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin posted a tweet this week saying that her baggage was stolen from an airport in Washington, D.C., in 2018 and that after seeing Brinton in the news and doing some research, she believes that he stole her luggage because he was photographed wearing her custom-made clothing.
Brinton was eventually fired by the Biden administration late last year after facing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-release-mugshot-photo-of-disgraced-biden-energy-official-sam-brinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple</a> criminal charges across the country for allegedly stealing luggage from airports.
&#8220;Now, I told you at the time that, you know, this guy was pretty clear to me is stealing the luggage, he&#8217;s not stealing it because he wants the luggage, right?&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;Nobody needs that much baggage, especially someone like him who already comes with so much baggage to begin with. But it&#8217;s very clear that he is doing this and he&#8217;s targeting women because it&#8217;s all part, again, of this sick, twisted fetish.&#8221;
Walsh then began talking about the tweet from Khamsin, saying that the evidence that was presented by the fashion designer made the situation “pretty close to a case closed on this thing.&#8221;
&#8220;What this means is that Brinton, the baggage bandit, has been patrolling our airports for years,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;He&#8217;s been lurking in the baggage claim area like some kind of predatory forest creature on the prowl. This is like when all the small dogs and cats in the neighborhood start going missing and you know that there must be a coyote in the woods, except this coyote steals women&#8217;s luggage and then parades around in their clothing. So when we say &#8230; that these men are appropriating the female identity, well, he was literally doing that, right? I mean, we were saying that about Sam Brinton when he was first hired and we were supposed to applaud him.&#8221;
&#8220;And I know I said, and many other people said that he&#8217;s making a mockery, he&#8217;s appropriating womanhood and all the rest of it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t realize how literally correct we were. He&#8217;s actually stealing their clothing and putting it on, yet nobody ever connected the dots.&#8221;
Walsh joked that this was basically like a new &#8220;MeToo&#8221; movement where women are coming forward and claiming that they were victimized by Brinton.
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&#8220;All I know is that now we are seeing the beginning of a new MeToo movement, except that in this case, it&#8217;s just women coming forward because Sam Brinton stole their baggage. It&#8217;s going to be, it&#8217;s a whole MeToo thing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Sam Brinton is the Harvey Weinstein of cross-dressing baggage thieves. He&#8217;s the Bill Cosby of baggage claim, is Sam Brinton. And I just hope that more women have the courage to speak out. It is like, it&#8217;s in all seriousness, it&#8217;s pretty disturbing, too. Can you imagine, like, you lose your baggage and then and then this creep, then, you know, this creep turns up wearing it?&#8221;
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TRANSCRIPT (revised for clarity):
<blockquote>MATT WALSH: We have to start with this. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the most important story in the country right now. I mean, it&#8217;s not, but it is at least the funniest. And so you know all about Sam Brinton. He&#8217;s the former Biden energy official who liked to cross-dress and called himself they/them and was also into bestiality role play and all kinds of other sick and insane things that none of us needed or wanted to know about, but we do now.
And he&#8217;s also the guy who got fired after stealing luggage from what we thought was only two women on two separate occasions. Stole their luggage right out of the airport, out of the baggage claim. Now, I told you at the time that, you know, this guy was pretty clear to me is stealing the luggage, he&#8217;s not stealing it because he wants the luggage, right? Nobody needs that much baggage, especially someone like him who already comes with so much baggage to begin with. But it&#8217;s very clear that he is doing this and he&#8217;s targeting women because it&#8217;s all part, again, of this sick, twisted fetish. He has a thing for stealing and wearing women&#8217;s clothing. That was clear to me.
And that brings us to this tweet from a woman named Asya Khamsin. &#8230; Here&#8217;s the tweet: “My name is Asyakhamsin tanzanian fashion designer based in houston Texas USA. I lost my bag 2018 in DCA. Recently I heard the news on @FoxNews about @sambrinton luggage issue surprisingly I found his images wore my custom made outfit which was in the lost bag in 2018.”
And then you also can see the dated photo of her in the dress in 2018 and then you can also Brinton in the exact same outfit. So, it&#8217;s a rather distinct outfit, it&#8217;s very distinct because she made, she custom made the outfit. She&#8217;s a fashion designer and her luggage goes missing in 2018, four years ago, and then Brinton turns up wearing her custom clothing. You know it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s pretty close to a case closed on this thing. So what this means is that, there he is, and apparently he&#8217;s also wearing this wrong. I think he&#8217;s wearing it backwards or something. He doesn&#8217;t even know how to wear the outfit.
What this means is that Brinton, the baggage bandit, has been patrolling our airports for years. He&#8217;s been lurking in the baggage claim area like some kind of predatory forest creature on the prowl. This is like when all the small dogs and cats in the neighborhood start going missing and you know that there must be a coyote in the woods, except this coyote steals women&#8217;s luggage and then parades around in their clothing. So when we say &#8230; that these men are appropriating the female identity, well, he was literally doing that, right? I mean, we were saying that about Sam Brinton when he was first hired and we were supposed to applaud him.
And I know I said, and many other people said that he&#8217;s making a mockery, he&#8217;s appropriating womanhood and all the rest of it. We didn&#8217;t realize how literally correct we were. He&#8217;s actually stealing their clothing and putting it on, yet nobody ever connected the dots. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s interesting. At least we don&#8217;t think they did. You know, I like to imagine that there was maybe one detective somewhere out there who was at the station late one night smoking cigarets and drinking black coffee and poring through all these missing baggage cases. And then, you know, he realized that it was all done by one man and that there was a criminal mastermind on the loose. And he had the bulletin board up with all the newspaper clippings and the you know, and the lines connecting them and all that. And he realized that it was Sam Brinton the entire time and he tried to make the arrest, but the brass at the station stopped him.
That&#8217;s what I like to imagine happened anyway. And if it didn&#8217;t happen, then someone should make a movie where something like that does happen. All I know is that now we are seeing the beginning of a new MeToo movement, except that in this case, it&#8217;s just women coming forward because Sam Brinton stole their baggage. It&#8217;s going to be, it&#8217;s a whole MeToo thing. Sam Brinton is the Harvey Weinstein of cross-dressing baggage thieves. He&#8217;s the Bill Cosby of baggage claim, is Sam Brinton. And I just hope that more women have the courage to speak out. It is like, it&#8217;s in all seriousness, it&#8217;s pretty disturbing, too. Can you imagine, like you lose your baggage and then and then this creep, then, you know, this creep turns up wearing it?
So stay tuned. More on that. I will say, if you&#8217;re a woman, if you&#8217;re a woman who has lost your baggage, at any point in the last decade, anywhere within the continental United States or probably anywhere else in the globe, we don&#8217;t know how far this conspiracy stretches, but if you were in that category, I would start &#8230; Googling images of Sam Brinton to see if you can find him wearing your clothing. But if you do that, you&#8217;re going to see a lot of other things about Sam Brinton that you don&#8217;t want to see. So never mind. You know what? Maybe it&#8217;s better just not to know. You probably don&#8217;t want to know and all you could do now is move on with your life.</blockquote>

Matt Walsh Torches Alleged Ex-Biden Admin Luggage Thief Sam Brinton: ‘The Harvey Weinstein Of Cross-Dressing Baggage Thieves’

Matt Walsh Torches Alleged Ex-Biden Admin Luggage Thief Sam Brinton: 'The Harvey Weinstein Of Cross-Dressing Baggage Thieves'

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Vanity Fair Magazine published a fashion spread in 2022 that featured disgraced former White House official Sam Brinton — who identifies as nonbinary — wearing clothing that was allegedly stolen four years earlier.
Brinton, who <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/police-release-mugshot-photo-of-disgraced-biden-energy-official-sam-brinton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was charged</a> with felonies for allegedly stealing luggage from multiple airports, was removed as a nuclear official in President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration last December — and the story just took a strange turn.
Asya Khamsin, a fashion designer, recalled having one of her own suitcases stolen from an airport in 2018 — and out of curiosity, visited Brinton&#8217;s social media pages. To her surprise, she said she saw multiple items from her personal collection splashed across Brinton&#8217;s feed.
&#8220;I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018. He wore my clothes, which was stolen,&#8221; she told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/female-fashion-designer-alleges-sam-brinton-wore-clothing-disappeared-airport-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>. But that wasn&#8217;t all.
Vanity Fair also <a href="https://www.vanityfair.it/gallery/sam-brinton-look-stile-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a photo spread featuring Brinton on February 21, 2022 — titled &#8220;All the Style of Sam Brinton.&#8221; The sub-headline gave a brief description, saying, &#8220;The nuclear engineer, appointed by President Joe Biden to serve as deputy secretary at the top of the Department of Energy, has, in spite of his part, entered the crosshairs of controversy. The reason? A wardrobe made of stiletto heels, grand evening dresses, and flaming lipsticks.&#8221;
But according to a few social media sleuths, one of Khamsin&#8217;s dresses appeared in the spread as well.
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OMG. Vanity Fair did a fashion article on Sam Brinton featuring him in one of the stolen dresses. 😂😂😂 <a href="https://t.co/NXWh72QPBo">pic.twitter.com/NXWh72QPBo</a>
&mdash; Unauthorized Narrative (@mgEyesOpen) <a href="https://twitter.com/mgEyesOpen/status/1628621489271365632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;OMG. Vanity Fair did a fashion article on Sam Brinton featuring the ousted Biden official in one of the stolen dresses,&#8221; Whispers of Dementia (@mgEyesOpen) tweeted, sharing a photo of the Vanity Fair title page in response to a photo from the designer alleging the dress was hers.
Brinton was charged after police in Las Vegas <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/police-disclose-how-they-caught-alleged-biden-admin-luggage-thief-sam-brinton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">matched surveillance photos</a> of an alleged luggage thief with a photo of Brinton wearing the same shirt that was posted to Instagram the same day that the surveillance footage was taken.
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The former Biden official was ultimately identified by a &#8220;white T-shirt with a large rainbow colored atomic nuclear symbol design&#8221; — but was reportedly caught on video taking luggage from the Las Vegas airport.
&#8220;Brinton demonstrated several signs of abnormal behavior while taking the victim’s luggage which are cues suspects typically give off when committing luggage theft,” investigators in Las Vegas wrote in their report. “Specifically, Brinton pulled the victim’s luggage from the carousel and examined the tag.”
“Then placing it back on the carousel, looking in all directions for anyone who might be watching, or might approach,” the report continued. “Pulling it back off the carousel and demonstrating the same behavior by looking around before walking away with it quickly. Brinton only having checked one piece of luggage, which Brinton had already claimed from the carousel, had no reason to be examining and taking any other pieces of luggage.”
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

Vanity Fair Published Fashion Feature On Sam Brinton, Showcased Allegedly Stolen Dress

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