President Donald Trump stated Thursday that he’s calling off plans to deploy federal troops to San Francisco after talking to town’s mayor.
“The Federal Authorities was getting ready to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday, however buddies of mine who dwell within the space referred to as final evening to ask me to not go ahead with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress,” Trump’s submit stated.
He added that among the “buddies” who requested Trump to carry off on deploying the Nationwide Guard in San Francisco included the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, and the CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff.
“The individuals of San Francisco have come collectively on preventing Crime, particularly since we started to take cost of that very nasty topic. Nice individuals like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others have referred to as saying that the way forward for San Francisco is nice. They need to give it a ‘shot.’ Subsequently, we is not going to surge San Francisco on Saturday,” the president wrote.
In a separate assertion, Lurie confirmed that he spoke to Trump final evening, saying, “I informed him the identical factor I informed our residents: San Francisco is on the rise.”
“Now we have work to do, and we might welcome continued partnerships with the FBI, DEA, ATF, and U.S. Lawyer to get medication and drug sellers off our streets, however having the navy and militarized immigration enforcement in our metropolis will hinder our restoration,” the mayor added. “We recognize that the president understands that we’re the worldwide hub for know-how, and when San Francisco is robust, our nation is robust.”
Lurie additionally stated that he spoke to Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday and she or he confirmed that the president was calling off plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco.
