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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

Billionaire Marc Benioff apologizes for saying troops should be deployed to San Francisco

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Marc Benioff delivers the keynote address at the start of the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Photograph: Jessica Christian/AP

Marc Benioff, the billionaire CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time magazine, apologized on Friday for saying he supported Donald Trump sending national guard troops to San Francisco.

Benioff, who has been facing intensifying backlash in California, said in a post that after he “listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials … I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco”.

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