California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sunday fired again at President Donald Trump for as soon as once more threatening to ship the Nationwide Guard into San Francisco.
“We’re gonna go to San Francisco,” Trump mentioned throughout a Fox Information interview. “The difference [from Chicago] is, I think they want us in San Francisco.”
Newsom wasn’t having it.
“Fact check: Nobody wants you here,” Newsom wrote on X. “You will ruin one of America’s greatest cities.”
In a clumsy second throughout the identical interview, Trump by chance praised Newsom.
He mentioned San Francisco was “truly one of the great cities of the world” however “went wrong” 15 years in the past.
Newsom served as mayor of San Francisco beginning in 2004, leaving workplace in early 2011 ― or nearly precisely 15 years in the past.
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When Trump threatened to ship troops to San Francisco earlier this month, not less than one native enterprise chief welcomed the thought … at first.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, as soon as a Hillary Clinton donor, mentioned town doesn’t have sufficient law enforcement officials and he supported Trump’s plan.
“I fully support the president,” he instructed The New York Instances. “I think he’s doing a great job.”
The feedback brought about enterprise capitalist Ron Conway to give up the board of the Salesforce Basis, the corporate’s charitable group, saying, “I now barely recognize the person I have so long admired.”
Benioff later apologized, saying his feedback had been made “out of an abundance of caution.”
“Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” he wrote on X.
He additionally mentioned his firm would give town $1 million to make use of as signing bonuses to rent new law enforcement officials.
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Trump has despatched the Nationwide Guard into a number of cities ostensibly on account of excessive crime charges, calling Chicago, for instance, a “hellhole” of crime. He’s additionally threatened to ship troops into further cities, together with San Francisco.
Nevertheless, critics say he’s focusing on cities with Democratic leaders in Democratic states, whereas ignoring high-crime cities and states with Republican leaders.
A few of the cities he has threatened even have declining crime charges. Newsom shared one report that finds San Francisco’s murder price is on monitor for its lowest degree for the reason that Nineteen Fifties.
Trump likewise despatched troops into Washington, D.C., claiming town’s crime numbers proceed to “get worse” and the state of affairs is “totally out of control.”
Nevertheless, town’s crime price has really been falling.
