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Right now, here is the audio cast of The Deal, Trump, Buckele, and the Gangs of El Salvador.

April 7, 2026.

It was three months since President Donald Trump had returned to office and begun his major

immigration crackdown.

At the White House, the mood was celebratory as he welcomed the leader of El Salvador,

naive Buckele.

We appreciate working with you because you want to stop crime, and so do we.

And it's very, very effective.

And I want to just say hello to the people of El Salvador and say they have one hell of a president.

Buckele, who'd once called himself the world's coolest dictator,

had become a key player for Trump.

And we actually turned the murder capital of the world.

That was the journalist's color.

Murder capital of the world into the state of this country

in the Western Hemisphere.

Sometimes they say that we're in prison thousands.

I like to say that we actually liberated millions.

That's very good.

Who gave him that line?

Do you think I can use that?

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