President Trump was ready to send troops into San Francisco. The city’s business leaders needed a way to talk him out of it.

A frenzy of phone calls and text messages between Trump and members of his administration, Mayor Daniel Lurie and chief executive officers of major Bay Area technology companies culminated in Trump’s announcement on Thursday that he had decided not to do a law-enforcement “surge” in San Francisco using federal forces.

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