President Donald Trump repeatedly blamed Democrats for crime in San Francisco as he threatened to send in federal agents over the summer, but it turns out his policies have actually left the city without the proper resources to tackle its deadly drug crisis.

Trump, who had earned the “TACO” moniker months earlier for “always chickening out” on tariff threats, spent months threatening a “surge” of federal agents in San Francisco before quietly backing away from the idea in late October after speaking to some “friends,” he wrote on Truth Social at the time.

Instead, the administration diverted thousands of federal agents away from agencies such as the FBI, DEA, and ATF, and instructed them to focus on immigration enforcement, resulting in a steep decline in prosecutions for practically al

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