President Trump told The NY Post that a classified weapon he dubbed “The Discombobulator” played a decisive role in the U.S. operation that led to the arrest of Venezuela’s drug-linked leader Nicolás Maduro.
According to Trump, the previously undisclosed technology was used during a daring Jan. 3 raid in Caracas, when U.S. helicopters moved in to seize Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on federal narcotics and weapons charges — an operation he said was carried out without a single American casualty.
“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said during an exclusive interview conducted in the Oval Office.
“I would love to,” the president added, before acknowledging that the weapon was deployed during the covert mission.
“They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.”
Trump addressed the secret weapon after being asked about recent reports claiming the Biden administration had acquired a pulsed-energy device believed by some to be connected to “Havana Syndrome.”
Details about the technology remain scarce, but those reports followed firsthand accounts from Venezuela describing how Maduro’s armed guards were incapacitated, with some allegedly collapsing while “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood.
One former member of Maduro’s security detail later said that “suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation.”
“The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react,” he said, adding that helicopters soon followed — “barely eight” — delivering roughly 20 U.S. troops into the area.
According to the account, “The Discombobulator” was then directed at forces protecting Maduro.
“At one point, they launched something; I don’t know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,” the witness said.
“We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon — or whatever it was.”
Maduro, 63, is currently being held in a federal detention facility in Brooklyn as he awaits trial on narcoterrorism charges. His former vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, has assumed the role of interim president.
“We have a great relationship with the new president,” Trump said. “She’s been terrific.”
He is a blabber mouth
Decades of hard work destroyed in seconds by this revelation.
Treason? Yes
Impeach? Now
Harms USA and allies? Of course.
Does he care? No way.