A prominent Department of Energy figure in the Biden Administration has been charged with stealing a checked bag from the baggage claim belt at Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport.
Biden Administration Official Charged With Baggage Theft At MSP Airport
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition Sam Brinton has been called the “first openly gender-fluid person in federal government leadership.” Brinton also is charged with stealing baggage from a luggage conveyor belt at Minneapolis (MSP) Airport after an American Eagle flight from Washington (DCA) to MSP.
According to the criminal complaint:
Minnesota alleged that Brinton on Sep. 16 was seen on airport surveillance footage removing “a navy blue hard-sided roller bag” from a baggage claim carousel — a bag similar to one reported missing that day.
Brinton “removed the blue bag’s tag and put the bag tag in the handbag they were carrying,” and “left the area at a quick pace,” the complaint said.
The woman who reported the bag missing, and identified the bag as hers in multiple surveillance videos, said the total value of items in the allegedly stolen bag was roughly $2,325, the complaint said.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Police Department confirmed that Brinton, who identifies as genderfluid and uses ‘they,’ ‘them’ and ‘theirs’ as personal pronouns, had arrived on an American Airlines flight from Washington, and that they had not checked a bag on that flight.
Brinton checked that bag when returning to Washington a few days later.
Based upon the security camera footage, police followed up with Brinton, who denied wrongdoing, stating:
“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag.”
But Brinton later “clarified” that perhaps the bag was the wrong one:
According to the complaint, Brinton revised their statement and said they were “tired and took the suitcase thinking it was theirs.” After opening the bag and realizing it wasn’t theirs, Brinton said they were “nervous people would think they stole the bag and did not know what to do.”
Brinton said they left the clothes that had been in the bag in a drawer at the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront hotel, where they were staying. The complaint said that “no clothing was recovered from the hotel room.” At the time the complaint was filed, Brinton had not yet returned the bag.
The Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel has been placed in charge of the office “for the foreseeable future.
CONCLUSION
As Gary Leff writes, a person in this position must be beyond reproach. Even if it was an honest mistake in the first place, lying to cops over something like this is very odd and not fitting for government service at any level.
Just look at him.
Let me fix that for you. It.
Them.
actually it’s a him.
LOL
Who could have seen that coming?
Most of these trans types have nothing but deep seething hatred for women. They are extremely misogynistic towards legitimate women and dress up and pretend to be women only to invade women’s spaces.
Loooooooooooooool you calling out others for being hateful and misogynistic is beyond hilarious.
Also you seem to know zero about trans women.
Trans “women” are men.
I know enough to know they are hostile and a threat to legitimate women.
TiMs as they should be called. Trans identifying men.
As with Jon Snow, you know nothing.
He’s right.
About as far from right as he can be.
Uh oh……..”snowflake triggered on aisle 6.” Run to your safe space, Aaron.
Based on the hateful comments here, I’m not the one being triggered…
Oh OK, Snowflake Aaron……
Wow!! I am shocked!! Such a nice whatever should I call that.
Asshole!
Thanks for the clarification. I didn’t know you call that asshole.
He might have been referring to you…
Predictable transphobia from trumplican @ santasicasshole and many others in the comments below.
Click Bait at its finest- what does the gender of this person have to do with anything related to the story? This is the worst crime a person in the Biden Admin has done so far? Remember twice impeached Trump and his swamp full of sh#t shows and cluster F)uks This article is a swing and a miss- but I see why you wrote about this person, because it feeds that folks that consume hate all day/
The point is this is an aviation-related story, not to insinuate that the Biden Administration is worse than the Trump Administration. Come on.
But again, what does their gender or preference have to do with the story? Do you point out how others are heterosexual in your posts?
His
And it shows HIS lack of judgement and mental state.
Quiet, hateful troll, the adults are speaking.
The “gender” shows lack of judgement.
Their gender has nothing to do with it, you vile hateful troll.
It’s shows he’s mentally ill. Like yourself.
That person is a thief, but that doesn’t make them mentally ill. Nor am I mentally ill. But you are definitely a hateful bigoted troll.
Childish behavior – good lesson heeded and glad it was something like this before real damage could be done in the govt position
Isn’t it clear hes mentally ill?
Non-binary isn’t a real thing.
No, but your hatred for others is definitely real.
Aaron, I’m seeing most the hate coming from your comments. Maybe you shouldn’t be casting so many stones.
What are the hateful comments? Your comment reeks of “I’m not racist, but you’re racist for pointing out my racism!”
I mean this person did something wrong but the transphobic comments really aren’t needed, a person who did a bad thing just so happening to be on the trans spectrum is not a reason to vilify a community
His lack of judgement and mental health are part of the reason he’s on the “trans spectrum” it’s all linked. And reality and biology are Transphobic.
“And reality and biology are Transphobic.”
Stop making up BS facts. You are transphobic, which is surprising, given how much of a vile hateful person you are.
Being transphobic is a badge of honor. We respect reality and nature.
People like you enable child abuse.
“People like you enable child abuse.”
That comment is nonsense and is in no way related to any fact or reality.
Nicole, I fear that this incident may reflect badly on the “community” in terms of clearances. This is the unstable behavior the government wishes to deter and it’s easy to paint all with the same brush. This Sam would have been aware of that. So instead of leading with dignity they now have stained the effort of many.
And what the heck was so attractive about the bag?
How pathetic are they/them/whatever
Nobody else seems to have caught it. Apparently, they said:
“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag.”
But… shouldn’t that be “If WE had taken the wrong bag”? to match the preferred pronouns?
Wow. The hateful comments here re: gender identity are terribly disappointing. Shame on the haters. Matthew, you should turn off comments.
Gender identity isn’t a real thing.
You have a gender identity. I’m guessing it’s male or female. You also have a narrow, ignorant worldview.
Dude can identify himself whatever he wants but under the hood he will always carry a XY chromosome. Good luck changing that. It is called biology if he is not aware.
People like you enable mental illness.
You missed biology class at high school or the entire high school? It is called genetics and you learn that in Biology. You cannot change your DNA. You cannot change your chromosome. That’s why a guy that identifies himself as a woman will always have an advantage if playing sports against women. You can change your outside but not your inside.
People like you enable hatred.
@Santastico
So I guess you will also keep being a vile hateful person as well.
@Santastico
I agree with my response was to the fool enavling this lunacy
@Aaron
Good, these people should be shunned by society
No, hateful trolls like you need to be shunned from society.
@Aaron
People who think like you bring down society. You enable mental illnesses and child abuse.
“People who think like you bring down society. You enable mental illnesses and child abuse.”
As always, wrong on all accounts. But your hatred does enable the murder of marginalized people.
@Aaron: you definitely missed Biology in high school or missed school entirely. The day someone can change its chromosome to really become the other gender, please let me know. Until then, it is just a change of the carcass but the interior remains the same.
That wasn’t what I was referring to, Santastico/Koggerj. Try harder.
This person’s gender identity and legal, consensual sexual activities have nothing to do with the aviation-related story. Shame on you for enabling this comment-bullying, Matthrw.
“Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition” … way to hold the big power brokers to account, Matt.
You posted this because the pic you’re leading with. You are pandering to the rabid rightwingers on this site. Disgusting,
Normal people find this disturbing not just “right-wingers”.
Funny how the ‘normal people’ so often turn out to have as many, if not more, problems as the ‘freaks’. Here’s a question: would you rather have a gender-fluid babysitter with a clean criminal record for your kids or a middle aged Catholic priest who’s been bounced around diocese after diocese?
Both are lgbt. So neither.
No, only vile hateful trolls like you do.
You’re out of touch and delusional like the men who claim to be women.
Nope. The only one of touch here is you, you vile disgusting hateful troll.
@Aaron
False, the majority thinks like me.
Most people view these people as harmful to society.
“False, the majority thinks like me.
Most people view these people as harmful to society.”
Prove it.
Ok. Someone stole a suitcase. Why is this blog-worthy, except as a way to dish up red meat for the Biden and trans haters? What of travel value should I take away from this article?
The travel value is to put AirTags in your checked luggage because there are bad people out there stealing them from airports.
You “people” would be salivating for some good old internet rancor if it was a straight, white guy who did this. This is a fact. Also, let’s go Brandon.
Who is Brandon? Where are you going with him, and why?
lmao. WhO iS bRaNdOn
You ask this many times and I have always elected to ignore it, but I’ll spell it out this time: “It’s F**K Joe Biden”, and to an extent “F**K his unqualified diversity appointee hires”, including the one in the article.
But you already knew that, didn’t ya 😀
Yea those “diversity hires” are so much worse than the nepotism hires of the previous administration. GTFOH! Maybe this official should have sold the country out to the Saudis for 2 Billion like Javanka, I’m sure you approve of that.
@Billy Bob
They actually are.
At least Ivanaka knows what gender she is.
@chad. So your cool with giving the country to the 9/11 hijackers as long as there’s no transgenders? Got it
If only you had the guts to say it outright! And f*ck your intolerant hatred of others.
Babblespeak, “so somebody stole a suitcase”. Bit more than that. High level appointed, security holding, & first trans. This was a huge acceptance move. And Sam failed to honor his appointment. Judging from the comments we see how impactful this is. I cannot imagine why someone who had such an achievement would ruin their credibility by stealing a suitcase.
I don’t care what his/her gender is. This is a person with the highest security level in the government stealing and lying about it. Regardless of how they identify, they should be fired and their security clearance revoked.
Exactly!
“People who think like you bring down society. You enable mental illnesses and child abuse.”
As always, wrong on all accounts. But your hatred does enable the murder of marginalized people.
These people aren’t marginalized they choose to embrace this.
People like enable their delusions and their mental state.
They are marginalized by vile hateful bigoted trolls such as yourself.
Waaaa waaaa.
marginalized? or actually being harmed? the Gays Against Groomers instagram page has many testimonies of trans people who went through with the surgeries as minors and who sincerely regret them and who feel they were coerced into them and so on. Your narrative is falling apart minute over minute, month over month, and year over year. A coalition of gays against the sexualization, indoctrination and medicalization of children: https://www.instagram.com/gaysagainstgroomers/
Maybe look into who is behind that group, since it doesn’t represent the gay world. Just saying.
I have. It was founded by a lesbian. They are protecting kids. Kudos to them3
These people are harmful to society and deserve to be marginalized.
Not as much as you do.
@Aaron
60% of pedophiles are lgbt.
The following are the 58 gender options identified by ABC News: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/heres-a-list-of-58-gender-options-for-facebook-users
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office released a list of 31 genders approved by the New York City Commission on Human Rights. The list is a guide for businesses, which can now be fined as much as $250,000 if establishments refuse to address someone by their preferred pronoun: http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GenderID_Card2015.pdf
Par for the persons in the brain dead Biden administration – God help us.
Wow. Not only is he a hideous freak, he’s also a thief. Also why does the article call him “they”? Is there more than one of him?
I was quoting a story about the official.
Let’s see a picture of you
I wouldn’t want to kill you with envy.
Interesting that no comment has brought up the crazy fetish history of this person. Biden unleashes dog-role-playing fetishist on key nuclear post: https://wrno.iheart.com/featured/walton-and-johnson/content/2022-02-14-bidens-new-doe-hire-a-queer-activist-who-enjoys-puppy-play-gimp-kink/
This is Sam Brinton – a drag queen and LGBTQ+ activist who was just hired to a top level position at the DOE: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1491875600306356235/photo/1
After 4 years of Trump, I’m so glad adults like Sam Brinton are back in charge.
So much depravity and degeneracy, lol.
100% and people like Aaron want to pretend like this is normal and that these people are being marginalized. yeah, ok
As opposed to being hateful bigots like you and Jan? lol
not bigots, just pro-biology and pro-anatomy and so on. and pro-protecting kids who don’t need to be subjected to kink from the Biden Administration
another pic of Brinton: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1491878446129037323/photo/1
discusses his fetish in detail in this Metro Weekly article that has since been scrubbed but is available on archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20170708031332/http://www.metroweekly.com/2016/01/puppy-love-mid-atlantic-leather-2016/
A thief is thief and deserves to be prosecuted. Couldn’t care less about it’s sexual preference
Given the proclivity of this administration to believe that laws don’t apply to them. Don’t hold your breath waiting on a conviction.
I’m not phobic or hating on the gender fluid community. I voted for Biden. I’m not a “right wing” individual. I thought this was a reasonable story to present.
This is a person with a high level government job who is stealing luggage at baggage claim. That’s ridiculous behavior.
If the President has been helping this person move up the ranks then I think it’s fair to mention it, regardless of that president’s party affiliation.
Lastly, when someone commits themselves to having a very well documented public life, and maintains a very non-traditional appearance in that public life, there will generally be some explanation given for their appearance when articles are written about them being caught in criminal activity.
Thank you Mr. Marcus. Your views parallel my own. I am astounded “they” received a security clearance if the articles presented here are valid. Red flags should have been raised about the vulnerability of corruption. And thank you to whomsoever gave me the idea of apple airtags in a response for Kyle’s article. Shopping done!
You and your ilk voted for this. Thanks a bunch.
Me? I voted more against extra crazy
Yea we need a real president again that weighs 300 lbs and poops in adult diaper all day
Poop for poop I guess we need one that doesn’t need diapers. Brandon pooped his pants at the Vatican so I think neither is fit for the office.
Biden sh*t his pants while at the vatican. Think thats a first for any president.
That’s a right wing falsehood. On the other hand there’s visual evidence of brown stains on Trumps pants
@Billy Bob
anytime you clowns say “right wing” falsehood or propaganda that’s a sure sign its the truth as was bidens poo poo pants.
What an odd looking guy. Why would they put him in a position of responsibility?
Or is he a guy? Anyway the DoE should never have issued a clearance. Way too much makeup for any living human!
All the people making fun of this individual’s looks is probably sporting 3 chins and hasn’t seen their pecker since graduating high school
we’re calling out this guys mental state which is probably as messed up as yours.
It’s easier to fix a fat person by exercising/right diet than it is to fix a furry kleptomaniac with clear, deep-seated mental issues.
That being said, shame on you for fat shaming!
Obviously I hit a sore spot. If it’s so easy then do a couple sit ups. You fatsos are making my health insurance cost more. Get it together
But I’m not fat, though. My actual travel related posts would reveal that I don’t mind 3-4-3 on economy 777 or 3-3-3 787. But you wouldn’t know that, because you don’t care about travel, you just like defending degeneracy and depravity on a travel blog, like what you’re doing now. And it’s sad because I just can’t tell you to do sit ups, you actually have to think. And you have the mental capacity of an imbecile on a good day.
Except it isn’t degeneracy and depravity, Jan. Live and let live. You’ll probably be less miserable that way.
@Aaron I bet you and Billy Boob have crossed paths in a puppy furry kink party, which is why you are in all out defense for a kleptomaniac. You’re disgusting. No wonder you guys have zero travel experiences; outside of the west, no fools will suffer your degeneracy and depravity.
@Aaron Lgbt people are defective.
@Jan… Get off your phone and finishing preparing my lunch. Don’t make me get your supervisor
I really don’t care at all about his gender. I’ve known a few transgender people, and they’re perfectly pleasant, sober, and normal acting in general. This person, on the other hand, acts like a deranged and petulant child, and gives every indication of being a sociopath, using this gender identity as a sort of shield against accountability and judgment. His appointment was because of, and not despite, his gender identity. Nobody would dare call this person out, or make the obvious conclusion that he is unwell, despite all of the obvious evidence. Fortunately for all concerned — except for the owner of the bag he stole — he unmasked himself before he could do damage to nuclear safety or national security.
The middle-eastern nations have the right idea.
At birth, doctors look at the outside of our bodies to see if we are a boy or a girl, but determining our gender is much more complicated than that. A lot of the time, when someone physically looks like a boy, they also feel like they are a boy in their brains and hearts. Similarly, many people who have the body of a girl, feel like they are a girl in their brains and hearts. People whose feelings about their gender matches their bodies are cisgender.
However, sometimes our bodies do not match how we feel about our gender. Some people who physically look like boys may feel like they are girls. Some people who look physically like girls may feel that they are boys. These people are transgender, where they have feelings about their gender that do not match their body.
About 1 in 200 people identifies as transgender in the United States. That is 1.4 million people just here in America! There are no tests that can be done to know if someone is transgender — the only way to know is from the person telling you.
If someone does not feel like they are a boy or a girl, but something in between, they may identify as non-binary, gender non-conforming, or genderqueer. These are just some of the possibilities. Transgender people and non-binary people, just like anyone else, deserve respect, and for people to respect what gender they identify as.
From Tech Interactive.
And Crime is not gender based.
Your feelings don’t override your anatomy. Your feelings are irrelevant. The vast majority of people are either male or female. Can’t change that.
This is nonsense.
Sex is real gender is not. There is no such thing as trans gender people. There are people who live under a delusion that they are the opposite sex.
Facts don’t care about your feelings.
A crime is a crime. He, her, they.
clearly this person cannot continue in service to the government.
The authorities should handle this as any properly handled theft matter.
Why would anyone steal a bag given the propensity of Air Tag usage these days. It’s begging to be caught.
All the comments complaining about transgender people is pretty ridiculous. If someone wants to identify as a different gender, then why the hell do you care? The nut jobs out there who have been brainwashed by Fox News and social media think transgender people are pedophiles grooming young children?? WTF? Just because you read something on Facebook, does not mean it’s true. The truth is that there are transgender people who are great people and some who are terrible people (same as non-transgender people).
I wish all the conspiracy theory nut jobs would come back to reality and treat others with respect and focus on things that actually matter.
Live and let’s fly: the number one destination for identity based hate speech in the boarding area google advert collective.
Biden’s family and officials seems to be carrying a lot of baggage. Everyone knows that stealing some random lady’s bag is a dumbass idea. Instead, you should be stealing one of Hunter’s duffle bags full of kickback cash for “the big guy!”
Just wow, the article already had me shaking my head in disgust. Sam is not doing the T’s any favors with their actions. Taking a suitcase when one wasn’t checked, THEN putting all the items in a closet and keeping the bag vs returning the bag to AA, and then finally LYING about it.
Binary, trans, whatever- Sam has some mental issues. And it doesnt bode well.
(fwiw I’m gay & former activist in the 90s… this just makes me sad. we need LEADERS with values & ethics!)