Salesforce founder Marc Benioff appears to be walking back comments he made last week in which he welcomed the deployment of National Guard troops to San Francisco. 

In an interview with the New York Times on the eve of his company’s annual three-day “Dreamforce” conference in San Francisco, the billionaire tech baron and philanthropist praised President Donald Trump and suggested the troops could help fight crime.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.