Salesforce founder Marc Benioff appears to be walking back comments he made last week in which he welcomed the deployment of National Guard troops to San Francisco.

In an interview with the New York Times on the eve of his company’s annual three-day “Dreamforce” conference in San Francisco, the billionaire tech baron and philanthropist praised President Donald Trump and suggested the troops could help fight crime.

The statement came in the wake of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and his threats to send them to other cities controlled by Democrats, including San Francisco.

Trump justified the deployments under the pretext that the cities themselves can’t manage crime, and to also help with immigration sweeps.

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