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Trump Claims Secret 'Discombobulator' Weapon Disabled Defenses in Venezuela Raid

Trump said the Discombobulator disabled Venezuelan air defenses and prevented missile launches during the raid, enabling capture of Maduro and his wife with no U.S. casualties.

  • President Donald Trump said in a Saturday interview that U.S. forces used a classified system called the `Discombobulator` during the Jan. 3 Caracas raid that captured Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.
  • The operation aimed to disable Venezuelan air defenses so rockets could not launch, following months of escalating tensions linked to alleged drug trafficking, with elite Delta Force extracting Maduro earlier this month.
  • An unnamed Venezuelan security official described how all radar systems shut down without explanation and people began bleeding from the nose after an intense sound wave caused disorientation.
  • Maduro is now in federal custody in Brooklyn awaiting trial on narcoterrorism-related charges, while Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as interim president shortly after, and President Donald Trump said the U.S. would temporarily `run` the country.
  • Republicans in Congress narrowly blocked a War Powers Resolution to stop the raid, details remain scarce with Trump calling the technology a `secret sonic weapon` amid media queries, and the Pentagon was asked for comment Saturday.
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Speculation about a US secret weapon persists. Now Donald Trump provides new food to the rumors: In the attack on Venezuela, the Americans are said to have used a miracle weapon that, at one stroke, has made all the enemy's weapons "unable to function."

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Washington, Jan. 24, (EFE).- U.S. President Donald Trump has said in an interview published on Saturday that the Pentagon used a new type of weapon in the operation that served to capture and depose then Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that, according to him, it disabled Venezuela’s military equipment. Trump used the term “discombulator” to refer to this weapon in the interview given Friday to The New York Post. “The decombulator; I am n…

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Latin Times broke the news in New York, United States on Friday, January 23, 2026.
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