A former Trump-era State Department aide has been arrested in connection to the Capitol Hill riot, the FBI confirmed to Fox News on Friday.
Federico Klein is …
A former Trump-era State Department aide has been arrested in connection to the Capitol Hill riot, the FBI confirmed to Fox News on Friday. Federico Klein is facing charges of violent and disorderly conduct, assaulting an officer and obstructing Congress and law enforcement, the agency said. Klein once worked as a « tech analyst » for Trump’s 2016 campaign before becoming a special assistant in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, according to Politico. On Jan.6, the 42-year-old « physically and verbally engaged with the officers holding the line » at the U.S. Capitol Building, « thereby affecting their ability to disperse the crowd, » an FBI special agent tasked with investigating Klein wrote in a criminal complaint. The complaint, citing police body camera footage, alleged that Klein ignored repeated orders from law enforcement to back away from two sets of doors leading to the interior of the Capitol. « Instead… he violently shoved a riot shield that apparently had been taken from an officer, towards the officers trying to stop the mob from gaining access to the building, » it read. « In doing so, KLEIN pushed the riot shield in between the doors to the Capitol, preventing officers from closing the doors.
