ABC producer says Trump hung up on him after being asked if he'd turn himself in: ‘You take care, John’

ABC News producer John Santucci claimed that former President Donald Trump hung up on him during a phone call when the producer asked if he would turn himself in to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

During an ABC News special report on Thursday with anchor David Muir, Santucci told viewers that the former president abruptly ended their phone call after Santucci asked him a provocative question about his potential arrest.

The news segment aired after the office of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg announced that it was officially indicting Trump. Though the office didn’t disclose what charges it was bringing against Trump, reports claimed they were most likely related to hush money payments Trump allegedly made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

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Santucci joined Muir on ABC News Live Thursday to disclose how his recent call with the embattled former president went. Santucci apparently received an earful from Trump about how feels about the attack, but got a dial tone when he asked details about how he would respond to the arrest.

Muir prompted Santucci, asking, "What has the former president told you?" The producer said, "David, I just hung up with the former president. He tells me that he just learned of the news, said it’s ‘an attack on our country.’ He said, ‘It’s political persecution.’ He went on to say, David, ‘They are trying to impact an election.’"

Santucci then mentioned his question that resulted in Trump ditching the call: "I asked the former president, does he plan to turn himself in? David, he said, ‘You take care, John,’ and then he hung up on me."

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The producer added, "So I think we’re going to have to wait and see, but obviously all of our reporting has been that the former president does indeed intend to head to New York. Maybe he didn’t want to give me that piece of information just yet from him, but something that we know his team has been in active conversations right now with the Secret Service of what that is going to look like."

On Thursday evening, Bragg’s office put out a statement claiming that it had "contacted Mr. Trump’s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the D.A.’s Office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal."

Reports claim that next Tuesday is one likely date that Trump will surrender to the Manhattan D.A. 

Other major GOP figures have weighed in on the potential arrest with Gov. Ron DeSantis. R-Fla., declaring that he would not aid New York law enforcement in extraditing the president from his Florida home. 

On Thursday, the governor tweeted that the indictment was "un-American" and claimed, "Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with this Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda."

Federal agencies must detail plans for supporting gender transition in workplace: Biden OPM

The Biden administration's top human resources office told federal agencies on Friday to establish policies that explain how federal workers will be allowed to transition to another gender in the workplace in ways that guarantee their privacy support.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released updated guidance on "gender identity and inclusion in the federal workplace," which had not been changed since the end of the Obama administration in 2017. The new guidance was released on International Transgender Day of Visibility.

The old OPM guidance told federal agencies to treat gender transitions with "sensitivity and confidentiality," and offered other general advice on how to handle transitions. The new guidance asks agencies to go further by setting internal policies and procedures on how to handle transitions, and to "support transitioning employees" consistent with the broad goals laid out by OPM.

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According to OPM, agency policies should explain the "type of support a transitioning employee can expect from supervisors, managers, human resources personnel, and agency employee support services," including access to employee assistance programs.

Agency rules should list a federal human resources official who can support transitioning employees.

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OPM also said agency rules should set out a procedure by which gender transitions will be reflected in the workplace. "The procedure would include, with the transitioning employee’s input and consent, when and which colleagues to notify of a transition; the timing for name changes and pronoun changes, where applicable and consistent with this Guidance, in email, IT systems, and employee profiles; and a process for any gender identity inclusion training for supervisors, managers, and coworkers if such training would be beneficial," OPM said.

According to OPM guidance, federal agencies are to make their gender transition policies available to everyone and to allow the use of sick leave for transitioning workers if they are receiving medical treatment during their transition, "just as with medical treatment for any other reason."

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The guidance says more broadly that employees should have "control, to the extent possible, over when, with whom, and how much they share about their gender identity or sex characteristics. It says employees should be addressed by the names and pronouns that they use to describe themselves, and says agencies should use "correct names and pronouns" to avoid discrimination.

"The isolated and inadvertent use of an incorrect name or pronoun will generally not constitute unlawful harassment, but, as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has explained, continued intentional use of an incorrect name or pronoun (or both) could, in certain circumstances, contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment," it said.

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