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Los Angeles Times
|October 13, 2025
Marc Benioff has become the latest Silicon Valley tech leader to signal his approval of President Trump, saying that the president is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco.
MARKUS SCHREIBER Associated Press MARC BENIOFF, CEO of Salesforce, recently said he wants the National Guard to help deal with crime.
The Salesforce chief executive's comments came as he headed to San Francisco to host his annual Dreamforce conference — an event for which he said he had to hire hundreds of off-duty police to provide security.
"We don't have enough cops, so if they [National Guard] can be cops, I'm all for it," he told the New York Times from aboard his private plane.
The National Guard is generally not allowed to perform domestic law enforcement duties when federalized by the president.
Last month, a federal judge ruled that Trump's use of National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act — which restricts use of the military for domestic law enforcement — and ordered that the troops not be used in law enforcement operations within California.
Trump has also ordered the National Guard to deploy to cities such as Portland, Ore., and Chicago, citing the need to protect federal officers and assets in the face of ongoing immigration protests. Those efforts have been met with criticism from local leaders and are the subject of ongoing legal battles.
President Trump has yet to direct troops to Northern California, but suggested in September that San Francisco could be a target for deployment.
This story is from the October 13, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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