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Report: ‘Genderfluid’ Former Biden Official Sam Brinton to Be Held in Men’s Jail

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“Non-binary” former Biden administration official Sam Brinton will be placed in a men’s jail in Maryland before being sent to Virginia over a third round of suitcase theft charges, the New York Post reported.

A Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy told the publication on Tuesday that Brinton is in a “pre-placement” hold at the county jail and is expected to be housed with the “general population” of the men’s jail next week.

Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation policy states, in part, that “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.”

“Once an inmate is classified, they will be given a housing assignment based on that classification,” the policy states. 

Brinton, 35, was arrested at his home last week as a “fugitive of justice” and is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing another suitcase. The suitcase was allegedly taken from the Ronald Reagan Airport and belonged to a Tanzanian fashion designer, the alleged victim’s attorney told the Post.

“In February, Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin shared images of Brinton wearing clothing she had made which she had reported stolen from Reagan National Airport in 2018,” according to the report. “Khamzin’s lawyer, Peter Hansen, confirmed to The Post Thursday his client ‘provided information on the clothing that was searched for’ at Brinton’s residence this week.”

The report continues:

He stated the investigation into Khamsin’s stolen items has been ongoing throughout the spring, and confirmed the award-winning designer recently “provided images of [Brinton] in the [her] designs and pictures of those designs on models or on Asya Khamsin herself to show they were the same articles.”

Brinton served as the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition from June through December of 2022, when he was fired after being caught stealing women’s luggage in Minnesota and Las Vegas. Both of those cases have been resolved.

“News of the new charges against Brinton come just one month after they pleaded no contest to charges stemming from the theft of a woman’s luggage at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport in July 2022,” according to the report. “In exchange for the plea deal, Brinton was ordered to pay $3,670.74 in restitution and given a 180-day suspended jail sentence.”

Brinton also agreed to undergo a mental health evaluation “as part of an adult diversion program at a hearing stemming from similar charges related to a theft at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in September 2022,” the report states.

Top Biden official grilled by CNN anchor over ‘accounting error’ that will send billions more to Ukraine

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper expressed skepticism Sunday over an “accounting error” at the Pentagon that will result in more taxpayer-financed military aid going to Ukraine.

What is the background?

Last week, it was revealed that an accounting error led the Pentagon to overestimate the value of military materials that had been sent to Ukraine.

“In some cases, ‘replacement cost’ rather than ‘net book value’ was used, therefore overestimating the value of the equipment drawn down from U.S. stocks,” a Pentagon spokesperson said.

According to the Wall Street Journal, this means the Pentagon had “inadvertently used a higher value for at least some of the weaponry the Pentagon sent to Ukraine, using valuations for new equipment instead of the older gear pulled out of U.S. stockpiles.”

The error — worth at least $3 billion — means Biden can send even more aid to Ukraine. That figure, according to Reuters, could actually increase as the full scope of the error is realized.

What did Sullivan say?

CNN host Jake Tapper asked national security adviser Jake Sullivan about the alleged mistake on “State of the Union,” commenting, “That’s a hell of an accounting error.”

In response, Sullivan emphasized that the Biden administration is not wasting money and American taxpayers should be “confident” in the administration’s ability to spend their hard-earned dollars.

“I just want to make clear, that is not money that went out the door and disappeared. That is not a waste of that $3 billion,” Sullivan began.

“It is simply a tally of how much military equipment we have given them,” he explained. “Once you make that adjustment, it turns out we have an additional $3 billion that we can spend to provide even more weapons to Ukraine.

“In the end, though, the Pentagon discovered the error, the Pentagon corrected the error, and Ukraine will get what it needs, and the American taxpayer will be able to be confident that this money is being spent effectively and appropriately,” he said.

Sullivan painted the error as innocent. But questions still loom over the timing of the Pentagon’s disclosure, concerns Sullivan failed to address.

The Wall Street Journal reported that an audit of Pentagon finances discovered the accounting error in March — two months before the Pentagon admitted to its mistake. The question, then, is why did the Biden administration wait to admit the error?

Perhaps the timing of the disclosure is related to President Joe Biden’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Japan at the G7 Summit. The two met on Sunday, where Biden reaffirmed his government’s support of Ukraine through — that’s right — nearly $400 million in additional aid.

The accounting error, therefore, allows the Biden administration to send even more aid to Ukraine without congressional approval.

The U.S. has sent Ukraine more than $40 billion in military aid since the war began last year.

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Joint House Caucus Hearing Voiced Support for Iranian Peoples’ Uprising: ‘Putting Their Lives on the Line for Freedom’

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A joint congressional House caucus is hearing voiced support for the Iranian peoples’ uprising, following a wave of recent executions by the Islamic regime in an attempt to contain unrest in the country.

Two pivotal bipartisan U.S. House Caucuses, the Iranian Women Congressional Caucus led by Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Nancy Mace (R-SC), alongside the Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus under the helm of Reps. Tom McClintock (R-CA) and Steve Cohen (D-TN) convened a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday to deliberate on the ongoing eight-month-long uprising, the regime’s harsh suppression, future prospects, and the appropriate U.S. policy.

The event, the first assembly in support of Iran’s uprising and the human rights of the Iranian people, was attended by prominent members of the House.

Addressing the hearing, Iranian opposition MEK (Mujahadin-e Khalq) political leader and President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Maryam Rajavi said the current uprising has “changed Iran’s political scene.” 

“This uprising did not happen overnight and the leading role of women did not happen by accident,” she stated.

Rajavi also expressed her belief that the Iranian people are “capable of overthrowing this regime,” adding that “the most important principle we believe in is freedom.”

Mace, cochair of the Iranian Women Congressional Caucus, offered an “unwavering commitment to advocating for freedom and the rights of women worldwide,” something she argued could “transcend party lines.”

She also acknowledged the “bravery” of the Iranian people who have been “protesting for their fundamental rights and freedoms, literally putting their lives on the line for freedom.”

Mace urged colleagues on both sides of the aisle to “join hands” and “rise above partisan politics” in order to “advocate for the rights of Iranian women and women all over the world.”

Republican Congressman Tom McClintock (CA), co-chair Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus, called to “materially assist” the people of Iran: 

It is well past time for this Administration to take into consideration Secretary Pompeo’s recommendation and provide political and material support for Iranian opposition movements and their vision of a free, secular, and democratic Iran. For national security, the peace and stability in the region, and above all, the Iranian people’s right to freedom and democracy, demand that the U.S. Congress stand behind the opposition and that the administration speak out and act in their support. This time, in this hour, let the United States take its stand with the people of Iran.

Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) lauded Rajavi’s work, calling her efforts “vital.”

“Thomas Jefferson once said that the blood of tyrants and patriots often refreshes the Tree of Liberty, and that was in their fight for the United States’ independence from Britain,” he said. “Madam Rajavi has taken it upon herself to represent the fight for freedom and liberty, not just for the girls and the women, which is extremely important for all Iranians.”

GOP Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas stated he stood fully behind Rajavi. 

“We firmly believe in your mission and what you’re trying to accomplish,” he told her, adding that her 10-point plan is something “all Americans would be behind if they truly understood it and took the time to read it.”

Rajavi’s “Ten Point Plan” aims to ensure Iranians’ freedom of expression and assembly — as well as the right to choose their elected leaders — as part of the path toward a free, secular, and democratic Iran.

The matter comes as protests continue to sweep Iran following the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the Islamic theocracy’s notorious “morality police” for violating strict requirements for women to keep their heads covered in public.

Since then, a slew of incidents involving abuses and even deaths at the hands of the regime have been documented amid an ongoing clampdown on protests, with clips circulating showing Iranian regime officers brutally assaulting protesters.

On Friday, Iran executed three men convicted of killing security force members during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death last year, the judiciary said, drawing condemnation from rights groups.

In March, a bipartisan House majority endorsed a resolution expressing Congress’s support for a democratic Republic of Iran while calling for a new Iran policy in light of continued protests by the Iranian people and increasing repression by the “theocratic thugs who have oppressed them for far too long.”

The resolution, sponsored by 223 U.S. House members, supports Iran’s uprisings for a secular republic. It notes that Iranian opposition MEK (Mujahadin-e Khalq) political leader and President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Maryam Rajavi’s “Ten Point Plan” to ensure Iranians’ freedom of expression and assembly — as well as the right to choose their elected leaders — is the “path toward a free, secular, Democratic and non-nuclear Iran.”

Representatives of Iran’s parliament in exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have claimed Iran — the largest state sponsor of terrorism worldwide — is currently witnessing a revolution “in the making,” with the Islamic Republic no longer capable of containing the current uprising.

Previously, Pence accused the Biden administration of threatening to “unravel all the progress” the Trump administration made in marginalizing the Iranian regime.

He has also expressed undying support for Iranian resistance while blasting the Biden team’s new concessions to the “tyrants” in Tehran, its “virtual abandonment of our ally Israel,” and the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,” which have emboldened the “adversaries of freedom” that now sense “weakness” in the American administration.

Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.

Abbott sends migrants overwhelming Texas to New York

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Title 42 has been lifted, and illegal migrants are now pouring across the border.

Pat and Keith of “Pat Gray Unleashed” are left wondering where exactly the migrants are going and how America is going to handle it.

“They’re just flying them here, to the interior of Texas, and letting them go,” Gray says.

Gray mentions that some of the migrants are being told they don’t have to show up for a court date until 2035.

“You might as well just set them loose and tell them, ‘Do what you want,’ because they’re going to be so established in the country after 12 years, that it would almost be ridiculous for them to show up to their court date,” he adds.

While the question of where these illegals will go remains one of the biggest, Governor Abbott has taken matters into his own hands by sending them to the blue state of New York.

“One of the most brilliant political maneuvers of all time from Governor Abbott,” Gray says.

Governor Kathy Hochul took to MSNBC to complain about the maneuver.

“We already have over 61,000, over 40,000 housed in New York City. They’re bursting at the seams and Mayor Adams is doing the very best he can in a difficult situation,” she says.

She adds, “Now we’re in the position of trying to help find places for these individuals” and that “you’re going to start seeing people living in tents not just on the border, but in the streets of New York and across New York State because we’ve reached a breaking point.”

Gray doesn’t feel sorry for her, commenting, “We in the Southwest have been going through this everyday for 60 years.”

“They’re just getting a small, little taste of what Texas and Arizona and New Mexico and California have been dealing with for decades, and they don’t like it.”



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Blinken raises eyebrows with wording of condemnation of ‘harmful conversion therapy practices’: ‘Who’s gonna tell him?’

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In the LGBT activist calendar, Wednesday was reportedly the “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia,” when celebrants reiterate their opposition to traditional views on sexuality.

Various elements of the Biden administration paid homage, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken. However, with his supportive statement, Blinken appears to have unwittingly prompted debate on whether sex-change mutilations and puberty blockers fall into the camp of the “harmful conversion therapies” leftists are otherwise keen to denounce.

Blinked shared an image of the LGBT activists’ latest kaleidoscopic flag to Twitter with the message, “On International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia we call for an end to harmful conversion therapy practices, including those that attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics.”

A version of this message appeared, albeit with additional context, on the State Department website, noting that “In keeping with the WHO’s determination, last year, President Biden directed the U.S. government to promote an end to so-called ‘conversion therapy practices’ around the world.”

The statement stressed that “conversion therapy is a scientifically discredited practice that can cause significant physical and psychiatric harm, and in certain circumstances may amount to torture.”

The State Department concluded, “We confirm that conversion therapy practices are inconsistent with U.S. nondiscrimination policies and ineligible for support through taxpayer-funded foreign assistance grants and contracts.”

Critics highlighted the apparent inconsistency in the Biden administration’s communications, noting that Blinken and other statist exponents of gender ideology saw fit to condemn efforts to transition individuals from one sexual orientation to another as well as efforts to change their “sex characteristics” and “gender identity” apparently only so long as the outcome of the therapies is more transsexuals, gays, or other rainbow-coalition constituents.

Mark Ousley, host of the “UnWokable Podcast” and gender ideology critic, highlighted Blinken’s call for an “end to harmful conversion therapy practices, including those that attempt to change a person’s … sex characteristics,” and wrote, “Who’s gonna tell him?

Ousley said in a subsequent tweet that the level of “cognitive dissonance is actually impressive. Thanks for finally coming out against child mutilations and trans conversion therapy.”

Rhyen Staley, who runs the Substack “The Reconnaissance,” responded to Blinken’s remarks with a question: “Does that mean the NIH will be ending its experimentation on children through chemical sterilization?”

Civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes wrote, “Wait, so conversion therapy- which uses just words- is bad because it attempts to change sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics— but hormones and surgery are good? Make it make sense.”

One Twitter user was similarly taken aback and wondering, “So, you’re against ‘gender transition’?”

Jay Richards, director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, wrote, “What about efforts to convert someone’s body to match a made up thing called a gender identity? What about that? Or are bodies not real?”

Biden’s transvestic assistant secretary of health R. Levine thanked Blinken for his post, sharing a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration document containing the claim at the center of the administration’s illogic.

The document states that sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts “commonly referred to as ‘conversion therapy’ or ‘reparative therapy,’ are practices that aim to suppress or alter an individual’s sexual orientation or gender to align with heterosexual orientation, cisgender identity, and/or stereotypical gender expression.”

“SOGI change efforts do not include gender-affirming care. They do not include counseling that facilitates acceptance, social support, or open and affirming exploration and development of one’s sexual or gender identity, including navigating sexual orientation and/or gender identity within the context of intersecting identities,” adds the document, without providing a detailed justification the distinction.

In other words, it’s only conversion therapy if normalcy is the aim.

Andrea Ens confirmed this understanding Monday in the Washington Post, noting that the unacceptable form of conversion therapy is that used as a “tool to eradicate LGBTQ activism.”

Ostensibly without a sense of irony, in her brief history of unacceptable forms of conversion therapy, Ens wrote, “Medical practitioners thus recommended conversion therapies involving hormonal injections, surgery or intensive psychotherapy. Such interventions carried significant risks for patients.”

This is the reasoning by which the Biden administration has come to simultaneously hold that detransitioning efforts (i.e., by transsexuals) amount to conversion therapy, but transitioning efforts do not.

Accordingly, the puberty blockers proven to have devastating, irreversible effects on children, sex-change genital mutilations, and other LGBT activist-supported conversion therapies, while harmful and, per Blinken’s suggestion, a means to “change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics,” are not among those the Biden administration intended to condemn Wednesday.

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