Manhattan D.A. says attempts to intimidate office won’t be tolerated after Trump’s call for protests

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sought to reassure his unit successful an interior connection Saturday that intimidation oregon threats against them would not beryllium tolerated. The connection comes arsenic his bureau moves guardant successful its probe into erstwhile President Donald Trump, who said that helium believes helium volition beryllium arrested connected Tuesday and enactment retired a telephone for his supporters to protest.

"Please cognize that your information is our apical priority," Bragg said successful a memo to bureau unit obtained by NBC News from a elder authoritative astatine the Manhattan DA's office.

He added, "We bash not tolerate attempts to intimidate our bureau oregon endanger the regularisation of instrumentality successful New York."

The letter, which was archetypal reported by Politico, did not notation Trump by name, and referred lone to "an ongoing probe by this office."

Trump is nether probe by Bragg's bureau successful transportation with a hush wealth outgo made to big video performer Stormy Daniels during his archetypal run for president.

In a station connected his societal media tract Truth Social Saturday, Trump referred to reports that helium could look imaginable transgression charges successful the probe and said helium believes he'll beryllium arrested Tuesday.

Trump, who's moving for president again, implored followers to protest. "WE MUST SAVE AMERICA! PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!" helium said connected Truth Social.

A spokesperson for Trump aboriginal said determination hasn't been a notification speech from "illegal leaks" from the Justice Department and "the D.A's office."

Bragg's email did not spell into item astir immoderate imaginable threats to the office, but said instrumentality enforcement partners "will guarantee that immoderate circumstantial oregon credible threats against the bureau volition beryllium afloat investigated and that the due safeguards are successful place."

His bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for remark precocious Saturday.

NBC News reported Friday that instrumentality enforcement agencies are prepping for a imaginable Trump indictment arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week.

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is simply a cardinal witnesser successful the lawsuit and testified earlier the expansive assemblage this week. Cohen pleaded blameworthy successful national tribunal successful 2018 to a national complaint related to making the outgo to Daniels. He was sentenced to 3 years successful national situation for that and different crimes.

Cohen maintains the outgo was made astatine Trump's absorption and that it was for the "principal intent of influencing" the 2016 statesmanlike election. Daniels has said the 2 had enactment successful 2006. The outgo was for a nondisclosure agreement, Trump said.

Trump said the outgo was legal, and that helium repaid Cohen. Trump tweeted successful 2018 that the wealth was "not from the campaign" and that the woody had been "a backstage declaration betwixt 2 parties, known arsenic a non-disclosure agreement, oregon NDA."

Trump has denied immoderate wrongdoing and called the probe a continuation for the partisan "witch hunt" against him.