If Berntsen and Rodil seem like questionable intel sources...

…that’s why it’s important to know that this is where Trump got information that he's using to justify deporting and killing people.

Of course, the voting-machine companies sued Fox and Newsmax.

Which settled, Berntsen implies…

…because the cartel put up the money to pay off their own lawsuit and squash the evidence he gave to Fox and Newsmax.

According to Berntsen, the Maduro cartel runs the voting machine companies.

In fact, Berntsen claims he and Rodil stumbled on Venezuelan vote-rigging…

…and they’re the ones who first told Trump world the 2020 election was stolen.

And as Berntsen acknowledges, there’s a lot of money at stake here.

I can’t say whether ex-intel chief Hugo Carvajal -- sentenced this summer -- was a client…

…but Rodil has publicly vouched for Carvajal’s intel value.

And Berntsen publicly urged Trump to cut Carvajal a deal.

In other words, the more the U.S. thinks Rodil’s clients have intel damaging to Maduro…

…the better shot he has at helping them avoid jail time.

And, potentially, the more money he makes.

Here’s Bloomberg in 2016:

How do Rodil and Berntsen know all of this?

Their first info came from a single source, who just handed them documents on Tren de Aragua.

And told them about the plan.

A single source...

So, who’s that anonymous source, part of Berntsen’s team?

Turns out, the Herald reporter previously quoted a guy named Martin Rodil about this stuff.

And this month, Berntsten’s co-author identified Rodil as Berntsen’s partner…

Just this month, Berntsen claimed he’s had meetings at the ODNI.

That’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who earlier this year rejected her own intelligence community assessment of Venezuela to embrace Trump’s.