Federico Klein

[struggle4progress]

A former state department aide in .. Trump’s administration has been charged with participating in the .. insurrection at the US Capitol .. and assaulting officers who were trying to guard the building ... Federico Klein, who .. worked for Trump’s 2016 election campaign .. was seen on camera violently shoving a riot shield into an officer and inciting the crowd ... Klein was arrested on Thursday .. and faces charges including obstructing Congress and assaulting officers using a dangerous weapon ... Klein became a staff assistant in the state department shortly after Trump’s inauguration in 2017 ... He held a top secret security clearance that was renewed in 2019 ... He resigned from his position on 19 January 2021 ...

... a spokesperson for the FBI’s Washington field office, confirmed the arrest .. but referred additional questions to the US attorney’s office for DC ...

... An FBI agent identified Klein, in a MAGA hat, among the mob that crammed into a tunnel leading to the Lower West Terrace entrance to the Capitol building from surveillance and police body camera footage from the day. In the tunnel, Klein pushed to the front of the crowd and "physically and verbally engaged" with police, preventing them from doing their work, the affidavit says. Around half an hour later, he was caught on camera among a crowd trying to push through doors to the building, according to the document ... Klein violently shoved a riot shield at officers, wedging it between the doors and preventing police from shutting them out. He also rammed it into officers in an attempt to breach their line, it said. Describing the video footage, the affidavit says Klein was seen "resisting officers, attempting to take items from officers, and assaulting officers with a riot shield" ...

... Klein ,, made an initial appearance by teleconference on Friday before US Magistrate .. Faruqui in Washington, where prosecutors said they would seek to jail him pending trial ... Klein’s arrest is the most direct link yet between the Trump administration and the rioters ... Klein has been politically active in the Republican Party since at least 2008 ... Before joining the State Department in 2017, Klein worked for the Trump campaign ... Klein .. was appointed as a staff assistant in the State Department on Jan. 22, 2017 ... He worked as a special assistant in the Office of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs ... The Trump appointee faces several felony charges for his alleged role in the riot ...

... Klein worked as a US Department of State aide, and as of last summer, was listed as a special assistant in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere, which supports the implementation of US foreign policy in the West ... According to a former colleague, Klein .. was later transferred to an office that processes Freedom of Information Act requests ... He also worked at the .. Family Research Council, which lobbies against pornography, abortion, divorce, and LGBT rights ...

... A Trump spokesman said he had no comment ... A Department of State diplomatic security special agent interviewed by an FBI agent said that Klein worked in the Office of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs, according to .. court papers. The Department of State official identified Klein in photos and video shown by the FBI ...

... it’s not the first time people with ties to Trump and the Republican Party have been linked to — or even arrested for — the events surrounding the storming of the Capitol ... Couy Griffin, a New Mexico county commissioner who had spoken with Trump on multiple occasions and even visited the Oval Office, was arrested in mid-January ... Trump promoted a Cowboys for Trump video in which Griffin said, “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat” ... Derrick Evans was a newly elected West Virginia state lawmaker when he allegedly took part in the Capitol riot ... Evans resigned days after the siege, when he was taken into custody and accused of violent entry and disorderly conduct ...

[Kingofalldems]

1. Felony charges?

He may have been encouraged by other Trump sycophants.

[dem4decades]

2. Hopefully he has direct orders from Trump himself on his phone.

[SMC22307]

3. And here he is with Hillary...

What an unprofessional, disrespectful POS.