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A judge has ruled that a State Department employee appointed by Trump will remain in jail after being arrested last week for his alleged involvement in the deadly Jan.6 riot on Capitol Hill.
Federico Klein was arrested by the FBI last Thursday in connection with the riot on Capitol Hill. Klein is believed to be Trump’s first political candidate accused by authorities of being involved in the riot. According to the State Department, he was appointed from 2017 until his resignation on Jan.21 of this year.
“The accused placed himself in this chaotic riot,” Judge Zia Faruqui said in his ruling, according to Business Insider. “It was a bunch of people trying to do one thing, and that’s to stop democracy.”
Business Insider reported that prosecutors argued Klein was among the first group to enter the Capitol, fought with police officers and encouraged others to enter.
“Federico Klein chose to put himself at the heart of the violence aimed at piercing the central door of the lower west terrace to access the Capitol building,” prosecutors wrote in a detention note obtained by Business Insider. “He used physical violence against the officers guarding the entrance, and his individual participation in the larger crowd increased the general violence and dangerousness of the day.”
Klein faces six counts, including assault, resisting or preventing certain weapons, and violent and disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds. He was reportedly part of a crowd attempting to get through the entrance to the lower west terrace of the Capitol and was seen pushing a riot shield towards a policeman.
While working at the State Department, Klein worked as an assistant to the transition team and as a special assistant in the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
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