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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump was geared up for a show of federal force in San Francisco<\/a>, a city he\u2019s blasted as everything wrong with liberal governance. Then conversations with some of the Bay Area\u2019s most prominent tech leaders and the mayor changed his mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a great call from some incredible people, some friends of mine, very successful people,\u201d Trump told reporters Thursday at the White House, specifically referencing Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, one of the world\u2019s most valuable tech companies<\/a>, and Marc Benioff, CEO of software company Salesforce.<\/p>\n

He said they told him San Francisco was working hard to reduce crime. \u201cSo we are holding off that surge, everybody. And we\u2019re going to let them see if they can do it,\u201d Trump said. He said he could change his mind if it \u201cdoesn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said <\/p>\n

Trump said the increased federal force had been planned for Saturday. He didn\u2019t specify whether he was just referring to National Guard troops, which he had threatened to send in, or if he would also halt a potential ramp up of immigration enforcement. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrived at a U.S. Coast Guard base near the city on Thursday morning, drawing protesters.<\/p>\n

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez that the operation had been called off for the entire Bay Area, a nine-county region of about 8 million people, Sgt. Roberto Morales, a spokesman for the sheriff, said Friday.<\/p>\n

A careful approach to Trump<\/p>\n

Outreach from billionaire CEOs<\/a> clearly had a hand in the rare reprieve Trump handed a Democrat-led city. But Trump also credited Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has worked to avoid direct confrontation with the Republican president since both took office in January. Lurie has governed as an earnest and relentless cheerleader<\/a> of San Francisco, and repeatedly refused to weigh in on national politics or to mention Trump\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

Instead, he\u2019s focused on local issues \u2014 public safety, luring back business and reversing the city\u2019s pandemic-fueled decline<\/a>. When Trump said repeatedly earlier this week that he\u2019d send the National Guard into San Francisco to quell crime, Lurie noted overall crime is down 26% compared to last year and car break-ins are at a 22-year low.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told the mayor, I love what you\u2019re doing, I respect it, and I respect the people that are doing it,\u201d Trump said, referencing a phone call the two had Wednesday.<\/p>\n

An heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and anti-poverty philanthropist, Lurie is a centrist Democrat who had never held office until he ousted then-Mayor London Breed<\/a> in last November\u2019s election. He has stated no other political aspirations than to improve the city and has said that he will work with anyone who wants to do the same.<\/p>\n

Lurie said he told Trump that he welcomes the city\u2019s \u201ccontinued partnership\u201d with the Drug Enforcement Agency and other federal authorities to get illegal narcotics off the streets and contribute to San Francisco\u2019s falling crime rates. Fentanyl has been a major scourge<\/a> on the city\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut having the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery,\u201d Lurie said. <\/p>\n

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Friday that her department won\u2019t tolerate violence like the truck that rammed<\/a> into a Coast Guard station in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday night. She said during a news conference in Minneapolis that she had discussed the incident with Trump and suggested the president could change his mind about holding off a federal enforcement surge if more violence occurs.<\/p>\n

If they \u201cdon\u2019t figure out how to protect our law enforcement officers and protect our Coast Guard members, that we would be forced to come in and protect those individuals,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

City reacts with praise and skepticism<\/p>\n

Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat, praised Lurie on social media, saying that he \u201chas demonstrated exceptional leadership.\u201d Steve Kerr, Golden State Warriors head coach, called him an \u201cabsolute superstar\u201d responsible for the good things happening in San Francisco. <\/p>\n

The office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor, said on X that, \u201cTrump, has finally, for once, listened to reason.\u201d Newsom, for his part, has repeatedly sparred with Trump, particularly after Trump deployed the California National Guard to Los Angeles against Newsom\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n

But others are skeptical that Trump will keep his word. Indeed, Trump said he was giving Lurie \u201ca chance\u201d to turn things around and said the federal government could \u201ctake criminals out\u201d much faster.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot trust Trump,\u201d said San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a progressive who runs politically left of Lurie but has a good working relationship with the mayor. <\/p>\n

San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who is also more politically liberal than Lurie, said in a statement that she disagrees with Lurie\u2019s desire to coordinate more with federal law enforcement, saying that \u201cis a dangerous invitation to a fascist administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

CEOs make an appeal<\/p>\n

Trump said he received \u201cfour or five calls\u201d from business leaders urging him not to send federal force and to let city leaders continue to work on reducing crime. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re the biggest people in the world, a lot of the high tech,\u201d he said at the White House. \u201cThey want to do it. And I said, \u2018I am so honored to let you do it. And if it doesn\u2019t work out, we\u2019ll do it for you very quickly.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Benioff of Salesforce, who also owns Time magazine<\/a>, told the New York Times earlier this month that he\u2019d welcome Guard troops to help quell crime ahead of his major annual business conference. He quickly face backlash and then apologized, saying the troops weren\u2019t needed. He confirmed to The Associated Press that he spoke to Trump but did not provide more details. Nvidia declined to comment.<\/p>\n

In announcing his decision to back off a surge, Trump did not mention other cities in the Bay Area, including Oakland, where he has also threatened to send in federal troops. <\/p>\n

Some other Democrats who have also taken a less combative approach to Trump have avoided his focus as he deploys Guard troops around the country. He has not, for example, focused on Detroit despite criticism of the city. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer<\/a> has tried to engage with Trump including with White House visits. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press journalists Mike Liedtke and Olga R. Rodriguez in San Francisco contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump was geared up for a show of federal force in San…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[64,276,163977,111824,69,1854,57,45810,409,59,163975,2010,2399,16262,8132,59971,50,147,80,163976,16264,2750,18767,158,89,3676,88929,61,67,132,68,163978],"class_list":{"0":"post-330193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-connie-chan","12":"tag-daniel-lurie","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-gavin-newsom","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-gretchen-whitmer","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-inc","19":"tag-jackie-fielder","20":"tag-jensen-huang","21":"tag-kristi-noem","22":"tag-marc-benioff","23":"tag-military-and-defense","24":"tag-nancy-pelosi","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-nvidia-corp","27":"tag-politics","28":"tag-roberto-morales","29":"tag-salesforce","30":"tag-san-francisco","31":"tag-steve-kerr","32":"tag-technology","33":"tag-u-s-democratic-party","34":"tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","35":"tag-u-s-national-guard","36":"tag-u-s-news","37":"tag-united-states","38":"tag-unitedstates","39":"tag-us","40":"tag-yesenia-sanchez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}