"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. 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 if we do it, faster, stronger, and safer but, let's see how you do? The president said the plan was to deploy troops on Saturday to the city as he has done with other cities."
"The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject, he wrote. Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others have called saying that the future of San Francisco is great. They want to give it a shot.' Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!"
President Donald Trump announced that he called off a planned federal surge of law enforcement and troops into San Francisco after local friends and city leaders asked him not to proceed. Trump said Mayor Daniel Lurie asked for a chance and that Lurie was making substantial progress, though Trump maintained federal action could be faster to remove criminals. The plan had targeted deployment on Saturday, mirroring interventions in other cities. Trump cited outreach from local business leaders including Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff supporting giving San Francisco a chance. California officials, including Governor Gavin Newsom, pushed back against previous federal deployments. Mayor Lurie issued a statement about his conversation with the president.
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