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Tech billionaire Marc Benioff is facing backlash over his support of President Donald Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops to San Francisco.
Ron Conway, a longtime Democratic donor and board member for the Salesforce Foundation, resigned from Benioff’s company last week. Conway announced his resignation in an email directly to Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.
“It saddens me immensely to say that your recent comments and inability to understand their impact have left me now barely recognizing the person I admired for so long,” Conway wrote to Benioff, according to a copy of the email obtained by the San Francisco Standard.
“I have openly said to you repeatedly in recent days that I am shocked and disappointed by your comments calling for an unwanted invasion of San Francisco by federal forces, and by your willful ignorance and detachment from the consequences of ICE immigration raids on families without criminal records, efforts to organize elections, attacks on free speech, and other unlawful policies,” continued Conway’s message.
Ron Conway, pictured, resigned from the Salesforce Foundation board in a heated email last week. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images/Getty Images)
A Salesforce spokesperson thanked Conway for his time on the board but did not address the debate in a statement.
“We are extremely grateful to Ron Conway and for his incredible contributions to the Salesforce Foundation Board for more than a decade,” the spokesperson told the Standard.
Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc R. Benioff attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2024. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse / Reuters Photos)
Benioff expressed his support for Trump’s troop deployment earlier this month in an interview with the New York Times.
“We don’t have enough police, so if [the National Guard] can be police officers, I’m all for it,” Benioff said.
“I fully support the president,” he added. “I think he’s doing a great job.”
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Benioff shocked many in Silicon Valley by supporting President Trump’s plan to tackle crime. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Benioff’s comments came a week before his annual Dreamforce conference San Francisco. He complained to the Times that he has to pay out of his own pocket every year for off-duty police officers to increase security in the convention area.
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However, the kind words for Trump are a turnaround for the California billionaire, who has funneled tens of millions of dollars against left-wing action groups.
