Still, law enforcement in New York is continuing to closely monitor online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested, with threats varying in specificity and credibility, four officials told The Associated Press. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included calls for armed protesters to block law enforcement officers and attempt to stop any potential arrest, the officials said. But despite the heated rhetoric toward Bragg, Republican leaders stopped short of Trump’s calls for protesters to “take our nation back.”“I don’t think people should protest this. I think President Trump, when you talk to him, he doesn’t think that, either,” McCarthy said. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington and Farnoush Amiri in Orlando, Fla., contributed to this report.
