By Clara Harter | Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Marc Benioff has become the latest Silicon Valley tech leader to signal his approval of President Donald Trump, saying that the president is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco.

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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 f

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