"Marc Benioff has become the latest Silicon Valley tech leader to signal his approval of President Donald Trump, saying that the president is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco. The Salesforce chief executive's comments came as he headed to San Francisco to host his annual Dreamforce conference an event for which he said he had to hire hundreds of off-duty police to provide security."
"President Trump has yet to direct troops to Northern California, but suggested in September that San Francisco could be a target for deployment. He has said that cities with Democratic political leadership such as San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles are very unsafe places and we are going to straighten them out. I told [Defense Secretary] Pete [Hegseth] we should use some of these dangerous cities as training for our military, our national guard, Trump said."
Marc Benioff praised President Donald Trump and urged deployment of the National Guard to address crime in San Francisco. Benioff said he had to hire hundreds of off-duty police for Dreamforce security and voiced support for using the National Guard as law enforcement if permitted. Federal restrictions generally prohibit the National Guard from domestic law enforcement when federalized, and a judge ruled that Trump's use of troops in Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, barring such operations in California. Trump has ordered Guard deployments in other cities and suggested using certain Democratic-led cities as training grounds, prompting criticism and legal challenges.
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