Martin Rodil, a Venezuelan expatriate who has promoted “the old voting conspiracy and the allegations that Venezuela helped rig elections worldwide” and reportedly played a role in the Trump administration's investigation of false claims of election fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, said during a recent podcast appearance that “there is a similar effort right now being conducted in Arizona in Maricopa County, where the U.S. government is conducting a deep investigation on similar activities that were conducted in Fulton County back in 2020.” Maricopa County was a focal point for right-wing media’s false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

As reported by The Guardian:

The story starts with two unique characters who claim to have been pursuing the election claims for years: Gary Berntsen and Martin Rodil. They have become sources for the Trump camp and ultimately for investigators and have promoted two major allegations about Venezuela, as the reporters Seth Hettena and Jonathan Larsen have written on Substack.

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Even before Trump’s return to office earlier this year, the sources say Berntsen and Rodil have been feeding information, documents and witnesses about the voting claims to [Stephen] Muldrow, the US attorney out of Puerto Rico and to an organized crime taskforce called Panama Express, or Panex, which is based out of Tampa.

Sources familiar with the relationship between Muldrow, Berntsen and Rodil say there has been extensive cooperation on the matter. “They work together. Muldrow has been very receptive,” one of the sources said of the voting allegations. That source said there had been multiple briefings in Puerto Rico.

The administration has been investigating President Donald Trump’s repeatedly debunked claims that he won the 2020 election, with Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appearing to make herself a central figure in the probe and being on-site for a January 28 FBI raid of a Fulton County, Georgia, election center, which “sought all ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton county, tabulator tapes, ballot images and voter rolls.” Gabbard also reportedly led a team in the spring to investigate “claims that Venezuela had hacked voting machines in Puerto Rico,” and Muldrow “facilitated the voluntary turnover of electronic voting hardware and software to ODNI for analysis.”

During a February 6 podcast appearance, Rodil claimed that “there is a similar effort right now being conducted in Arizona in Maricopa County, where the U.S. government is conducting a deep investigation on similar activities that were conducted in Fulton County back in 2020 that everyone is aware of.” He also claimed there were “probably at least 10 critical different counties across the country that” Gabbard’s team was investigating, and “Fulton County is just step one, but it’s another 10 other steps that’s going to be done in the coming weeks.”