The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/13/benioff-walks-back-national-guard-comment/The crisis PR team over at Salesforce has been working overtime since CEO Marc Benioff went full Trumpy in a New York Times interview Friday, going so far as to say he'd welcome the National Guard being illegally deployed in San Francisco. Benioff was talking to former Chronicle columnist turned Times SF correspondent Heather Graham last week when he made the controversial comment that he'd welcome having National Guard troops in San Francisco — after Trump has threatened to deploy them here, and followed through with deploying them in Los Angeles, DC, and Chicago so far. This is despite legal experts' very big questions about the legality of Trump's willy-nilly, retaliatory troop
Benioff Walks Back National Guard Comment as Salesforce Pledges $15B Investment In San Francisco

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