Nov 3, 2023
Trump Appointee Gets HUGE Sentence For Role In January 6 Riot
Trump appointee to the State Department Federico Klein was charged with eight felonies for his participation in the January 6 riots.
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Trump political appointee
who was working in the State Department,
was just sentenced to 70 months in prison
for storming the Capitol on January 6th
and assaulting a law enforcement officer.
His name is Federico Klein.
He was arrested March 2021, convicted
of eight felonies as well as misdemeanor
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offenses by the US District Court Judge
Trevor McFadden, also a Trump appointee.
Trump on Trump appointee crime
and in July 2023, following a bench trial,
McFadden said that Klein's conduct
was shocking and egregious and suggested
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the sentence would have been higher had
Klein not already been on home detention
for two years, and said he was astonished
by Klein's behavior on Jan six.
Here's a photo of Federico Klein and.
The government had initially sought
ten years in federal prison for Kline,
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saying that he was, quote,
likely motivated by a personal benefit.
This is graphic, for they pointed
to messages he sent ahead of January
6th saying, hell yeah, I'm going.
I'm a Trump appointee, as well as the fact
that he took time off work at the State
Department to volunteer to travel around
Vegas to investigate the false claims
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that Trump campaign was about to make,
was making about massive voter fraud.
Now, here's a photo of of Kline
right here wearing a Maga hat.
And apparently he yelled during one
of the assaults in the Lower West Tunnel.
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You can't stop this.
At one point, prosecutors said Kline
wedged a riot police riot shield
in between doors, helping to force
the doors back open and allowing rioters
to continue their assaults on police.
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But law and order, right?
I mean, J.R., how many stories
do we have of this?
This feels like some of the closest
to the top we've seen.
I didn't realize it was gonna get
this close to the top.
Of course, there was, like, you know,
not necessarily the point tease,
but folks that, like, worked for him
or had some level of connection
through maybe their other subordinates
and other states or something.
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Yeah, that's what stuck out.
Mostly with this for me was how much.
And he was proud of it.
He was promoting it and saying it.
And so of course, as he reconfigures
his circle of friends, he's probably
looking for more people that are this damn
addicted to him, where they'll put
their lives on the line and not what he's
looking at 60, 70 months in prison
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on top of or from the two years as well.
And I guess he thinks that's a win.
I would love to see what he thinks
about his loyalty now.
Yeah, I mean, there is a little bit
of schadenfreude in seeing somebody who is
so confident that they're going to escape
justice, get some of that justice.
So hopefully we'll see a lot more of that.
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Yeah.
I mean, I just think about
Cassidy Hutchinson saying that Giuliani,
right before he, like, groped her,
was like, we're gonna win.
It's like, oh, first of all,
you got a weird way of celebrating that.
- And also, you didn't win.
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