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Back on June 29, Sam Brinton announced his new role as deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy, and tweeted happily about being “one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership.” He attached a photo of himself, apparently taken in his office, featuring him wearing lipstick and a belted sleeveless red jumpsuit (or something) with American flag-themed high heels and a chain necklace. Apparently he has a novel way of amassing such ensembles, for he has just been charged with felony theft for stealing a woman’s luggage at an airport.
According to a Monday report in Minnesota’s Alpha News, Brinton, who gleefully flaunts his perversions, was actually arrested last month, but the Alpha News report is the first time the arrest has become public knowledge. Why didn’t the Biden administration come clean from the beginning and announce weeks ago that one of their showcase “diversity and inclusion” hires had been arrested? To ask the question is to answer it.
It all started back on Sept. 16, when a woman who had just flown into Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) notified airport officials that her suitcase was missing. “Airport records confirmed the navy blue Vera Bradley roller bag arrived at 4:40 p.m.,” Alpha News notes, “but was missing from the carousel.”
Video footage showed that the bag had been taken by none other than the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy. Brinton had also just flown into MSP, but he had not checked a bag and thus had no reason to be in the baggage claim area. Brinton, says Alpha News, “left the airport in an Uber for a stay at the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront hotel, where he checked in with the blue bag.” Then on Sept. 18, he went back to MSP to fly back to Washington, and had the bag with him.
Apparently Brinton liked this woman’s bag very much: “Surveillance video from Dulles International Airport shows Brinton traveling with the bag on an Oct. 9 return trip from Europe.” That same day, police asked him if he had taken “anything that did not belong” to him. Brinton replied: “Not that I know of.”
Later, however, Brinton admitted that he had taken the bag but insisted that it had somehow come to be packed with his own clothes. “If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it,” Brinton told police, “but I don’t have any clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag.”
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