CNN —As he stood inside the echoing hall of the prison, Matt Gaetz seemed impressed.
It was July, and Gaetz — who will oversee the Federal Bureau of Prisons if he becomes attorney general — was visiting El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), where gang leaders and murderers are locked up and from which they are never released.
“This is the solution” for El Salvador, Gaetz added, in a video released by Bukele.
That trip came just a month after Gaetz, Donald Trump Jr. and others traveled to Bukele’s second inauguration.
Gaetz founded a congressional El Salvador caucus with Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas in July in a rare moment of bipartisanship.
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