After repeatedly threatening to send the National Guard to San Francisco, President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has called off plans for a “surge” to fight crime in the city.

“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,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around.”

In a statement this morning, Lurie said Trump agreed to halt a federal deployment in a phone conversation on Wednesday night.

“In that conversation, the president told me clearly that he was calling of

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