{"id":2550724,"date":"2026-01-24T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-brags-about-secret-weapon-that-was-key-to-maduro-capture\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:57:02","slug":"trump-brags-about-secret-weapon-that-was-key-to-maduro-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-brags-about-secret-weapon-that-was-key-to-maduro-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump brags about secret weapon that was key to Maduro capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-brags-about-secret-weapon-that-was-key-to-maduro-capture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2550724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump brags about secret weapon that was key to Maduro capture: &lsquo;The discombobulator&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2482447\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> boasted on Saturday that a secret weapon, which he dubbed &ldquo;The Discombobulator,&rdquo; was a key part of Operation Absolute Resolve, the strike to capture former <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\">Venezuelan<\/a> dictator <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nicolas-maduro\/\">Nicolas Maduro<\/a> in Caracas on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off,&rdquo; Trump told the <em>New York Post<\/em>. &ldquo;We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4432511\/trump-threatens-canada-100-percent-tariff-partnership-china\/\">Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariff over new partnership with China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4431742\/treasury-department-targets-iran-revenue-new-sanctions-shadow-vessels\/\">Treasury Department targets Iranian revenue with new sanctions on shadow vessels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4430179\/house-vote-trump-war-powers-venezuela\/\">GOP rejects reining in Trump on Venezuela, with only Massie and Bacon defecting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump teased the weapon after journalists questioned him on reports that the Biden administration had purchased an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4420551\/house-homeland-security-gop-leadership-demands-havana-syndrome-answers\/\">energy device believed to have caused &ldquo;Havana Syndrome.&rdquo;<\/a> The mysterious health condition plagued U.S. government personnel in Cuba, with symptoms including vertigo, headaches, nausea, cognitive fog, and hearing problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4432511\/trump-threatens-canada-100-percent-tariff-partnership-china\/\">TRUMP THREATENS CHINA WITH 100% TARIFF OVER NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The description of that sonic weapon aligns with an account of the Caracas operation by a security guard of Nicolas Maduro, publicized by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At one point, they launched something&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know how to describe it&hellip; it was like a very intense sound wave,&rdquo; the security guard reportedly said. &ldquo;Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &ldquo;Without a doubt. I&rsquo;m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they&rsquo;re capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They&rsquo;re not to be messed with.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stop what you are doing and read this&hellip; <br \/>&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v9OsbdLn1q\">https:\/\/t.co\/v9OsbdLn1q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/2009997866425897308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The House Homeland Security Committee <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4420551\/house-homeland-security-gop-leadership-demands-havana-syndrome-answers\/\">requested more information<\/a> on the energy device from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem earlier in January.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;According to recent reporting, at the end of the Biden Administration, [Homeland Security Investigations] acquired a device in an undercover operation involving the expenditure of millions of dollars, some or all of which was allegedly sourced from funding provided by the Department of War (DoW),&rdquo; House Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4431953\/accusations-insider-trading-maduro-operation-prediction-markets-focus\/\">ACCUSATIONS OF INSIDER TRADING ON MADURO OPERATION BRING PREDICTION MARKETS IN FOCUS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American troops <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4406218\/us-forces-kill-maduro-security-team\/\">suffered no deaths<\/a> during the Venezuela operation, with only six personnel injured. Venezuelan officials estimated that 80 of their citizens were killed during the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro had claimed victory in several elections that were deemed unfair by international observers. After the 2019 and 2024 elections, over 50 countries deemed him to be the illegitimate ruler of his country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump brags about secret weapon that was key to Maduro capture: \u2018The discombobulator\u2019 President Donald Trump boasted on Saturday that a secret weapon, which he dubbed \u201cThe Discombobulator,\u201d was a key part of Operation Absolute Resolve, the strike to capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on Jan. 3. \u201cThey never got their rockets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3892,"featured_media":2550725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/venezuela-strike-maduro-trump-collage-e1769283745671.jpg?1769265787&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/venezuela-strike-maduro-trump-collage-e1769283745671.jpg?1769265787&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2550725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}