Trump Calls Off Federal Operation in San Francisco
President Trump announced on Thursday that he has called off the deployment of federal immigration agents to San Francisco, just as they were beginning to gather at a Coast Guard base in the Bay Area.
Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had stopped the federal action in San Francisco at the request of friends who live in the Bay Area and who vouched for the work of the city’s Democratic mayor, Daniel Lurie.
Mr. Trump specifically cited Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, who set off a local firestorm for initially saying he wanted the National Guard in San Francisco, and Jensen Huang, the president and chief executive of Nvidia. Mr. Benioff later apologized and said he did not want Guard troops in the city.
Mr. Trump said that federal officials were “preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday,” until his friends asked him to stop because Mr. Lurie was making “substantial progress.”
Mr. Lurie said in a news conference that he had not asked business leaders to intervene, and only learned of the president’s reversal when Mr. Trump called him late Wednesday night. He said the two men spoke about San Francisco’s recent drop in crime, the return of tourists after the pandemic, reductions in homeless encampments and the city’s booming artificial intelligence industry.
Its really sad when a President will disrupt lives, livelihoods endanger lives and terrorize, without having a fucking clue?
I was laugh thinking we had a system of checks and balances that prevents something like this from happening, but yet, here we are.
Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had stopped the federal action in San Francisco at the request of friends who live in the Bay Area and who vouched for the work of the city’s Democratic mayor, Daniel Lurie.
Mr. Trump specifically cited Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, who set off a local firestorm for initially saying he wanted the National Guard in San Francisco, and Jensen Huang, the president and chief executive of Nvidia. Mr. Benioff later apologized and said he did not want Guard troops in the city.
Mr. Trump said that federal officials were “preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday,” until his friends asked him to stop because Mr. Lurie was making “substantial progress.”
Mr. Lurie said in a news conference that he had not asked business leaders to intervene, and only learned of the president’s reversal when Mr. Trump called him late Wednesday night. He said the two men spoke about San Francisco’s recent drop in crime, the return of tourists after the pandemic, reductions in homeless encampments and the city’s booming artificial intelligence industry.
Its really sad when a President will disrupt lives, livelihoods endanger lives and terrorize, without having a fucking clue?
I was laugh thinking we had a system of checks and balances that prevents something like this from happening, but yet, here we are.
