WASHINGTON/MIAMI, Jan. 27 -- U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly acknowledged that American forces used a secretive weapon he referred to as the "Discombobulator" during the January raid that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to recent interviews with The New York Post and other outlets.

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Trump described the device as a classified system that rendered Venezuela's defensive equipment inoperable, saying it "made equipment not work" and prevented Russian and Chinese-made rockets from being launched against U.S. forces during the operation. "They never got their rockets off. they pressed buttons and nothing worked," Trump told the New Yor...