The report from the U.S. government was led by Joint Task Force Vulcan, a multiagency law enforcement team created at Trump's request in 2019.
The list of names revealed Bukele, as well as other senior officials and their relatives, were involved in that scheme.
The alleged pact between the Salvadoran government and gang members is nothing new.
And even before Bukele became president in 2019, an El Faro investigation revealed that Bukele himself also made deals with gangs while serving as mayor of San Salvador.
However, the actual deals that Bukele's government made with gang members went much further, willing to renegotiate violence inflicted by the gang, USAID grants and electoral votes, World Politics Review reports.
Earlier this year, President Trump and President Bukele sat down in the Oval Office in the White House to celebrate their new, extraordinary deal in which El Salvador agreed to take Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members into their maximum security prison.
Likewise, one of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's first foreign visits was to El Salvador to meet Bukele. »