Ladies and Gentlemen,
I present to you, the Stormy Daniels story.
The part that "nobody got" was that MS13 was the strongarm of the D party to take out opponents, get away with crimes, or not, and eventually be taken out if needed.
Mercs for hire. Terrorists that weren't Muslim. Satanists themselves. Just a batch of killers and thugs that wouldn't turn down any job.