Trump Appointee Who Took Part in Capitol Riot Swore an Oath Then 'Switched Sides,' Judge Says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Federico Klein, an ex-official in the administration of former President Donald Trump, will remain in jail after a judge said he "switched sides" by allegedly participating in the deadly breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

U.S. Magistrate Zia Faruqui said that those who took part in the insurrection were "enemies at the heart of American democracy" during a Tuesday ruling denying a pre-trial release for Klein. Faruqui described Klein as "a person who swore an oath" to the Constitution but then "switched sides" by allegedly taking part in the riot.

The 42-year-old former State Department official is facing felony charges of assault on police officers, interfering with police during civil disorder, impeding an official proceeding and knowingly engaging in any act of physical violence against any person or property in any restricted buildings or grounds.

"How could someone sworn to protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, then participate in an attempt to stop the administration of the Constitution?" Faruqui said, according to Reuters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-appointee-who-took-part-in-capitol-riot-swore-an-oath-then-switched-sides-judge-says/ar-BB1eqAOg?li=BBnb7Kz

[lagomorph777]

1. Judge Faruqui says it perfectly. We need to use this messaging.

[soothsayer]

2. Nope, he was always on the wrong side

Fingers crossed during oath perhaps

[Caliman73]

3. While the judge is factually correct...

Conservatives believe that their way (White Supremacy, authoritarian hierarchy), is the "natural" way and the only way that our government should be structured.

Klein very likely doesn't think that he "switched sides". He probably thinks that the over 70% of Americans who reject the ideology, are the traitors.

[PJMcK]

4. This traitor is just like Trump

They took oaths but the words had zero meaning for them. They then went on to violate those oaths in the most treasonous manner possible: They tried to subvert the Constitution and the Government of the United States of America while disenfranchising tens of millions of American voters.

Lock them up.

[gratuitous]

5. Good to hear it from the bench

And we need to echo Judge Faruqui's words: The insurrectionists are not on the side of the Constitution, despite their mad grab for the label of patriot.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Now go after the others (senators, etc.) that swore oaths too, to this Country too. Get the

idiot proud boys and oath keepers too, such hypocrisy and such that they reek of is stinking up the room.