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A Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Idarous Khamsin told Tucker Carlson on Monday night that disgraced former Biden official and LGBTQ activist Sam Brinton has been wearing clothes stolen from her at a Washington DC airport in 2018.
“What I need is justice now, and I believe there is justice,” she told Tucker Carlson while appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Samuel Otis Brinton, a nuclear engineer who served as the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy from June to December 2022, lost their job after they were charged with luggage theft twice. Brinton, who was the first openly genderfluid individual in federal government leadership, uses singular they pronouns.
They (Brinton) appeared in Las Vegas court in December and were released after posting a $15,000 bond.
Speaking with Tucker Carlson on Monday night, Khamsin, the fashion designer, said that her bag vanished from the Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on March 9, 2018, after she flew into Washington DC for an event organized by the Kenyan community to put her clothes on display. She was eventually unable to attend the event after her bag was stolen and her clothes were mysteriously gone.
The Houston, Texas-based designer, who has made her own clothing for years, narrated how she was shocked to see pictures of Brinton wearing her clothes after learning that he had been charged with stealing multiple pieces of luggage from two U.S. airports.
Last February, she shared the shocking discovery in a tweet that quickly went viral.
“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 outfits which was in the lost bag on 2018,” she wrote.
She later told Fox News, “I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018,” she told Fox News. “He wore my clothes, which was stolen.”
Her bag was never recovered even after her husband, Khamsin Alkhag, filed reports with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department and a claim with Delta Airlines, the airline Khamsin used to fly from Houston to DC.
She pleaded with the airline to find her bag, which she said was full of expensive clothes, jewelry, shoes and other personal items.
Her husband said that she filed a report with the Houston Police Department on December 16 after seeing photos of Brinton wearing what she believes are her clothes on the news. In late January, she said, she was contacted by the FBI field office in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Her husband had told Fox News that he believed Houston police had sent the case to the FBI in Minnesota.
“Then my wife gave him the information and we didn’t hear anything. We don’t know whether the case is on. We don’t know whether the case is cold,” the husband had previously told Fox News.
