Maddow Blog AG Pam Bondi announces investigation into another Trump foe: Nancy Pelosi [View all]
As this week got underway, Donald Trump’s decision to deploy federal forces to San Francisco was effectively a foregone conclusion. Though the president struggled to explain why, exactly, such a deployment was necessary, he nevertheless told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, “We’re going to go to San Francisco.”
As the week neared its end, those plans were shelved. According to a statement the Republican posted to his social media platform, Trump reversed course in part because San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie asked him to hold off in ways the president found satisfying, and in part because Trump had heard from some billionaire “friends” who persuaded him to delay his intended “surge.”
This isn’t how federal policymaking is supposed to work, especially when it comes to deployments of armed personnel on American soil, but this is our life now.
Nevertheless, because officials still believed Trump’s original rhetoric, they started making plans accordingly. With this in mind, The New York Times reported:
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