Trump official arrested left little mark before attack

WASHINGTON » Soon after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, the White House told State Department officials that they needed to find a job for a political appointee.

Federico G. Klein had been a lowlevel aide on Trump’s 2016 campaign and a stalwart supporter of the president, outspoken on his religious and conservative views. When a senior State Department official tried to object, believing Klein to be out of his depth in the world of diplomacy, he was overruled, according to a former department official. Klein was stashed in obscure positions. Four years later, Klein, 42, finally made his mark in Washington as a leader of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a court document filed by the FBI, which arrested Klein on Thursday. He is the first known participant in the Capitol breach to have worked for Trump’s campaign or held a political appointment in his administration.