President Donald Trump said Thursday he was persuaded by “friends” to call off a federal troop deployment to San Francisco.

Trump said in a Truth Social post that he also spoke with Democratic San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who told him the city was making “substantial progress” on combating crime and asked to be given “a chance” to handle the issue locally.

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