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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said the U.S. used a secret weapon he called “The Discombobulator” to disable Venezuelan equipment when the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro.
Trump also renewed his threat to conduct military strikes on land against drug cartels, including in Mexico.
Trump made the comments in an interview Friday with the New York Post.
The Republican president was commenting on reports that the U.S. had a pulsed energy weapon and said, “The Discombobulator.
He said the weapon made Venezuelan equipment “not work.”.
They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off,” Trump said in the interview. »