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Trump Says the Military Deployed a Secret “Discombobulator” Weapon in Venezuela

Joe Wilkins

created: Jan. 27, 2026, 6:15 p.m. | updated: Feb. 6, 2026, 5:18 p.m.

In a familiarly bizarre interview with the New York Post, president Donald Trump revealed that US troops had used what he colorfully termed a secret “discombobulator” during the air attack on Caracas, Venezuela earlier this month. “I would love to,” he said, before claiming that, whatever it is, the device was used in Venezuela. In the interview, Trump bragged that the device “made [Venezuelan] equipment not work” during the brutal offensive that killed about 100 people and led to the unlawful kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. They were all set for us.”As a senior US official told CNN, Trump seems to be conflating a few different systems into one weapon. According to the publication Venezuela Analysis, medical warehouses belonging to the Venezuelan Social Security Institute were among the targets at La Guaira.

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