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

Sam Brinton, 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 will serve 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 reported.

Back in 2022, Brinton, 37, who uses they/them pronouns, was fired 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 police and court documents.

Then, in May of last year, Brinton was arrested a third time for stealing a Tanzanian fashion designer’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 said. “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 published an article praising Brinton’s style, including some of Khamsin’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.

“Mr. Brinton has apologized to Asya Khamsin, and Asya Khamsin has forgiven Mr. Brinton,” Khamsin’s attorney said. “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.”

A follow-up hearing scheduled for June of next year will examine Brinton’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 worked for The Trevor Project, where he helped create a model school district policy 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.

Burgum’s Unflinching Support Of Israel Winning Over Jewish Donors

North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, one of the rumored candidates on former President Donald Trump’s shortlist of possible running mates, has won the support of some significant Jewish donors because of his strong support of the state of Israel.

Burgum, a former Microsoft executive, said three weeks after the barbaric Hamas massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel on October 7, “We shouldn’t be surprised that Iran would greenlight a massacre after getting billions of dollars from the Biden administration. Biden has turned maximum pressure into maximum concessions. He literally was begging Iran, the world’s leading sponsor of state terrorism, to reenter the failed Obama-Biden Iran nuclear deal that almost guarantees Iran pathways to nuclear weapons. Joe Biden naively believes that these financial bribes would somehow stop Iran from wanting to cross the nuclear threshold.”

“To the university officials, the talking heads, and the far-left politicians on television that try to draw some kind of moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas, your words are abhorrent. … No Hamas or Hezbollah agent anywhere in the world should be able to find safe harbor. And let me go further: Countries like Qatar cannot be allowed to support terrorists. … Hamas leaders in Doha should be considered legitimate military targets. … We know that as Hamas and Hezbollah use human shields, we must stand up and tell the world, it’s Iran with blood on its hands, not the Jewish state that is fighting for its right to exist.”

“We will put an end to Biden’s attempts to undermine Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem; the same goes for the Golan Heights,” he stated.

Burgum also told the Hudson Institute that “Iran’s war on Israel” was “a war on America.”

In April 2023, Burgum signed into law a bill barring anyone contracting with the state from participating in a boycott of Israel; the bill also prevented North Dakota from investing in companies that “would have the effect of requiring or inducing any person to boycott Israel.”

“The thing that always stands out to me is his support of Israel — not only what he had to say about it in his speech, but also back in private conversation,” Fred Zeidman, a top GOP donor, told Jewish Insider.  “He understands it, and for that reason I don’t question his support under any circumstance.”

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