After repeatedly threatening to send the National Guard to San Francisco, President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has called off plans for a “surge” to fight crime in the city.
“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 said in a Truth Social post. “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.”
In a statement this morning, Lurie said Trump agreed to halt a federal deployment in a phone conversation on Wednesday night.
“In that conversation, the president told me clearly that he was calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco,” Lurie said. “Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reaffirmed that direction in our conversation this morning.”
Trump said that Lurie asked “very nicely” to allow the city to continue its efforts to fight crime without federal help. The president said he thought Lurie was “making a mistake,” but appeared to credit the city for coming “together on fighting Crime.”
Crime rates in the city, as well as most of the Bay Area, have been on the decline after spikes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the Truth Social post, Trump also credited tech leaders, including Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, for his decision.
“They want to give it a ‘shot,'” Trump said. “Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!”
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