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A man who worked as a State Department official during the Trump administration was sentenced to 70 months in prison Friday for his involvement in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.in July, including six that charged him with assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers, after a bench trial before US District Judge Trevor McFadden. His co-defendent, Steven Cappuccio, was also convicted for actions related to the insurrection.
Klein, a former Marine, was the first known member of the Trump administration to be criminally charged in connection with the January 6 riot. He wasin March 2021 after video footage and photos identified him in a mob of Trump supporters attempting to push through the Capitol doors, even after officers repeatedly warned him and others to back up,, Klein was seen in videos from the riot calling out “We need fresh people, we need fresh people” to others in the crowd.
Klein’s attorney, Stanley Woodward, defended his actions to the court, CNN reported. Woodward argued that Klein’s actions during the riot were “not a betrayal” of his service in the military or the State Department, and described the events of January 6 as “a protest turned wrong.” He also asserted that Klein did not plan the January 6 attack and that “no one person caused January 6.”
Klein worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and was hired at the State Department after Trump took office. He continued to work at the department after the insurrection but resigned on January 19, 2021, one day before Joe Biden’s inauguration,Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.
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