XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, talk.politics.guns
XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.atheism

Former Trump State Department appointee sentenced to 70 months in prison
after assaulting police officers at US Capitol
Holmes Lybrand
By Holmes Lybrand, CNN
v
CNN —

A former appointee of Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to 70 months in
prison for his violent role on January 6, 2021.

Federico Klein, a former State Department appointee, was found guilty
following a bench trial before Judge Trevor McFadden this summer of
multiple counts, including assaulting multiple police officers that day.

“Your actions on January 6 were shocking and egregious,” McFadden, also a
Trump appointee, said during Friday’s sentencing.

According to the judge, Klein assaulted an officer during an initial
breach on the Capitol grounds, telling the officer “you can’t stop us.”

McFadden also detailed several other assaults on officers from Klein, many
of which occurred in the lower west terrace tunnel, one of the most
violent scenes that day.

“This is a government of law, not of men,” McFadden said, adding that
Klein had “betrayed your office.”

During Friday’s sentencing, former US Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell
told the court that Klein had attacked him multiple times with a police
riot shield.

Gonell questioned how “someone who took the same oath as I did” to protect
the Constitution, could be involved in such an assault on the Capitol.

Prosecutors also noted Klein – an ex-US Marine – had access to sensitive information with a security clearance at the State Department and
suggested that in attacking the Capitol to keep Trump as President, Klein
could have also been trying to keep his job as a political appointee.

Investigators found several images of Klein in the riot allegedly using a police riot shield to wedge open an entrance for rioters and fighting
against a police line for several minutes, according to his arrest
affidavit. Klein wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat then changed
into a “United States Marine Corps” hat during the riot, investigators
say.

Stanley Woodward, Klein’s attorney, said in court that Klein had not
planned to attack the Capitol that day, adding that “no one person caused January 6.”

Woodward, who also represents Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta in the
classified documents case in Florida, noted Klein had worked on Trump’s
2016 campaign.

Klein’s actions on January 6, Woodward said, were “not a betrayal” of his service in the military and the State Department, but was part of
attending “a protest turned wrong.”


https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/federico-klein-trump-state- department-january-6-us-capitol/index.html

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)