Trump won’t send federal troops to San Francisco after ‘friends in the area’ asked him not to: Live updates
President Donald Trump walked back on his plans to send federal troops to San Francisco on Saturday after his friends who live in the area urged against the deployment.
“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,” the president said in a Thursday afternoon post.
“The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject,” Trump continued.
California officials have urged the president against deploying federal troops.
Governor Gavin Newsom has threatened to sue the Trump administration if he sends the National Guard to the state while former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that if federal law enforcement violates California law, local police could arrest them.
“And if they are convicted, the President cannot pardon them,” she and Rep. Kevin Mullin said in a statement.
Still, federal immigration authorities arrived in the Bay Area Thursday morning.
