SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has earned praise for his defusing of a situation where federal immigration agents, and possibly, troops, seemed poised to intervene in the city. But, while President Donald Trump said Mayor Lurie asked him "very nicely" to give the city a chance, remarks the president made Thursday afternoon implied it was the city's billionaire tech CEOs -- not its elected mayor -- that influenced him to call off the surge.

"As you probably know, maybe you heard, we were going do a big surge in San Francisco, but I got a great call from some incredible people, some friends of mine, very successful people. Marc, who everybody knows, and Jensen, everybody knows Jensen," Trump said, referring to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his Nvidia counterpart,

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