Trump appointee Federico Klein considered it part of his “duties” to attend the Jan. 6 Trump rally and join protesters who mobbed the Capitol. He was sentenced to 70 months.
A video still from police body camera shows Federico Klein holding a police shield at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A Trump appointee to the State Department who assaulted multiple police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison Friday by a fellow veteran of the administration.
“I never realized that the biggest threat to our country would come from people who swore to protect it — someone who took the same oath to protect and serve the United States as I did,” said Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, a Capitol police officer who was in the tunnel on Jan.6 and who spoke at Klein’s sentencing.Klein repeatedly shoved against the officers with a stolen riot shield. He helped pin D.C.
Defense attorney Stanley Woodward said that while Klein was “embarrassed,” in his view, his involvement in Jan. 6 was “not a betrayal of his service to the government.” He said Klein “felt he was duty bound to be there to support the president,” and got caught up in “a protest turned violent.”Klein worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign, after nine years in the Marines and stints working for a Virginia politician who has. He joined the State Department after the election.
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