"Benioff was talking to former Chronicle columnist turned Times SF correspondent Heather Graham last week when he made the controversial comment that he'd welcome having National Guard troops in San Francisco after Trump has threatened to deploy them here, and followed through with deploying them in Los Angeles, DC, and Chicago so far. This is despite legal experts' very big questions about the legality of Trump's willy-nilly, retaliatory troop deployments to liberal cities for no reason besides political theater,"
"His exact words were: "We don't have enough cops, so if [the National Guard] can be cops, I'm all for it." The comments are in keeping with a swath of Silicon Valley types who have shown deference, and outright ass-kissery, to Trump in second term for their own, bottom-line-focused reasons and as Knight points out, Salesforce has "hundreds of software contracts with the federal government" that could be jeopardized if Trump turned his ire toward the company."
Marc Benioff said he would welcome National Guard troops in San Francisco as a response to perceived SFPD understaffing. He emphasized using hundreds of off-duty officers for Dreamforce and referenced "re-funding" the police despite claims funding had not been meaningfully reduced. Legal experts questioned the legality of politically motivated Guard deployments after similar actions in Los Angeles, DC, and Chicago. The comments reflect a pattern of Silicon Valley deference to Trump tied to business interests. Salesforce's extensive federal software contracts were noted as a potential motive, and local leaders reacted critically to the remarks.
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