Ryan J. Reilly is a justice reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — A former Donald Trump political appointee at the State Department who tried to storm the Capitol and assaulted law enforcement officers on Jan. 6 was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Friday. Federico Klein was arrested in March 2021 and convicted of eight felonies as well as misdemeanor offenses by U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, also a Trump appointee, in July 2023 following a bench trial.
I’m a Trump appointee' — as well as the fact that he 'took time off from work at the State Department to volunteer to travel to Las Vegas' to investigate the false claims that the Trump campaign was making about mass voter fraud. “You can’t stop this!” Klein yelled during one of the assaults in the lower west tunnel at the U.S. Capitol, which was the site of some of the worst violence of the attack.
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