"For days, President Trump has been saying that San Francisco leaders "wanted" him to send National Guard troops or federal agents into the city to address crime here which could be him interpreting the words of billionaires Elon Musk and Marc Benioff as being representative of the city's leadership. But apparently he took some phone calls Wednesday night, after media reports about the deployment of 100 US Customs and Border Patrol agents to Alameda, and he decided to stand down, at least where San Francisco is concerned."
""The Federal Government was preparing to 'surge' San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress," Trump writes. "I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around. I told him, I think he is making a mistake, because we can do it much faster, and remove the criminals that the Law does not permit him to remove. I told him, 'It's an easier process i"
President Trump prepared a federal surge into San Francisco to address crime, with media reports noting deployment of 100 Customs and Border Patrol agents to Alameda. Calls from friends, including Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and a call with Mayor Daniel Lurie led Trump to pause the planned incursion for San Francisco. Trump said Lurie asked "very nicely" for a chance and described the mayor as making substantial progress. Trump expressed skepticism, called Lurie’s approach a "mistake," and said federal action could remove criminals faster. The pause appears tentative and could change.
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