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Trump Claims New Weapon Used in Maduro Capture Operation

U.S. President Donald Trump revealed in an interview that a new type of weapon was used in the operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, which he claims disabled Venezuela's military equipment. Trump also confirmed the possibility of military action against drug cartels in other countries.


U.S. President Donald Trump, in an interview published on Saturday, stated that the Pentagon used a new type of weapon in the operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, which, he said, disabled Venezuela's military equipment. 'The discombobulator; I'm not permitted to talk about this,' Trump said, adding that the device 'made the (Venezuelan) equipment stop working.' When asked if such attacks could occur in Mexican, Venezuelan, or Colombian territory, the president replied: 'it could be anywhere.' Trump used the term 'discombobulator' to refer to this weapon in the interview he gave on Friday to The New York Post. 'They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they couldn't launch a single one,' he added. 'They never managed to launch their rockets.'